 After the war he returned to San Antonio, and was married there about 1847 to Mary Rodriguez, said to be a daughter of wealthy Spanish-Americans.He purchased 200 acres of land from Maria de Jesus Olivarri, wife of Ambrosio Rodriguez, and in early spring of 1848 he moved to the East bank of the Salado Creek, just north of Dittmar Road (now Martin Luther King Jr.Blvd.)