Alamo Defender Spotlight: A. Spain Summerlin

[Greg C.]

SUMMERLIN, A. SPAIN (1817-1836). A. Spain Summerlin, Alamo defender, son of Thomas and Susan Summerlin, was born in Tennessee in 1817. He immigrated to Texas from Arkansas with his parents and settled in Nacogdoches. He volunteered for the revolutionary armyqv on October 17, 1835, and took part in the siege of Bexar. He later served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Capt. Robert White's infantry company, the Bexar Guards. Summerlin died in the battle of the Alamoqv on March 6, 1836.

[neferetus]

Quite young. I wonder why he is never mentioned as one of the Alamo teens?

[Greg C.]

I never realized how young he was. Do you know what the "A" represents in his first name?

[Cole_blooded]

Greg, the A. in Summerlin`s first name is for Augustus!

TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded ;D