Texas history...?!

Question: Who was the Yellow rose of Texas?

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Answers: Who was the Yellow rose of Texas?

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The way I heard that story the yellow rose of Texas was the woman "entertaining" Santa Anna and keeping him away from the battlefield so the Texans could win the Battle of San Jacinto. That's the Yellow Rose of Texas that the song was written about.

Note: I didn't look anything up on Google. I remembered this from growing up in Texas! Had no idea what her name was until I saw it in another person's answer.

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for people in north Texas,..it was David Von Erich (70's wrestler)

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In the song I think it was Rosalee
As an entertainer it was Louise Mandrell

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Emily West Morgan (yeah, I googled,,, again) so, shoot me

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The Yellow Rose of Texas is said to be Emily (West) Morgan, a freed black woman of James Morgan. It is said in the legend that she may have been in Santa Anna's tent when the Texans charged the Mexican camp on April 21,1836. A story was told around campfires and in barrooms that Emily had helped defeat the Mexican army by a roll in the hay with Santa Anna.

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Ernest Tubb recorded it and I also believe that Jimmy Wakely recorded it. I remember reading that it was slave girl that the song was written about but can't recall her name.

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