Cleveland Kinloch Simmons, officer of the Alamo garrison, son of William and Sarah Clifford (Young) Simmons, was born at Charleston, South Carolina, on June 8, 1815. He traveled to Texas in January 1836 aboard the schooner Santiago. Simmons received a commission as a lieutenant in the Regular Texas Cavalry from Henry Smith, before leaving San Felipe for Bexar. He arrived at the Alamo as an officer of Capt. John H. Forsyth's cavalry company, which accompanied Lt. Col. William B. Travis. Simmons died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
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Albert Curtis, Remember the Alamo Heroes (San Antonio: Clegg, 1961). Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Bill Groneman,
“Simmons, Cleveland Kinloch,”
Handbook of Texas Online,
accessed June 30, 2022,
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/simmons-cleveland-kinloch.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Original Publication Date:
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June 1, 1995
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Most Recent Revision Date:
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March 2, 2019
