Gaspar Flores was a member of a group opposing the dictatorial actions of the President of Mexico, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and is known to have attended their first meeting in Bexar as well as the first revolutionary convention ever held in the city on November 15, 1834. He became one of the 35 men who signed the anti-Centrist document which was presented at the convention. In 1835, Santa Anna dissolved Congress and enforced his political power in all the state governments of Mexico, including Coahuila and Texas. The crisis came to Bexar with the arrival of troops under Colonel Domingo Ugartechea. Flores, who at that time acted as Treasury administrator, refused to obey the colonel's demands and relinquish the Treasury's official documents. Subsequently, Santa Anna sent General Martin Perfecto de Cos with additional troops to control Texas. However, on December 1835 a group of Texan volunteers managed to drive them out of Bexar and Texas during the siege of Bexar. Flores went to the aid of those who had decided to stay in Bexar after the battle, supplying them food, cattle and other goods. When the Mexican soldiers met with the citizens of the city in January 1836, Flores worked in the committee that included James Bonham, James Bowie and Juan Seguin in order to draft possible resolutions to the conflict. In February 1836, elections in Texas took place. Each city selected four delegates for the March 1 convention; Gaspar Flores was one of the delegates chosen in Bexar, though José Antonio Navarro, José Francisco Ruiz and Erasmo Seguin all opposed him in the political race. Two weeks later, Texas received information that Santa Anna had crossed the Rio Grande with thousands of troops intent on capturing Bexar. However, almost immediately after the town had heard the news young men joined the localmilitia or acted as messengers. After the fall of the Alamo, Flores and Seguin collected both their own families and migrated to eastern Texas. Flores died on September 6, 1836, after the battle of San Jacinto, having managed to go a few miles east of San Felipe. He probably died of a fever that struck the area. He married twice. His second wife, Petra Zambrano, his son Nicholas, and his two sons-in-law were bequeathed his possessions on February 11, 1837.
