Simon Peter Ford

Ford's captain at San Jacinto chose the battlefield for his own grave. William Wood commanded Company A of Edward Burleson's First Regiment, which his state marker calls the Kentucky Volunteers, and the company roll of April 21, 1836 lists Simon P. Ford beside Edward Miles and James A. Sylvester. Wood died in Houston on June 7, 1854. His will, signed the day before, asked that his body be buried on the San Jacinto battleground and called on his comrades in arms to see it done. His marker stands today in the battleground cemetery.

What the plaque says

Simon Peter Ford Born 1816. Came to Texas in 1830. Participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a member of Captain William Wood's company. Died 1896 in Flatonia, Texas. Erected by the State of Texas 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha) — 11 mi
  The mother parish of the Czech settlements around Flatonia, a stone-fronted church of 1895 whose ceiling Gottfried Flury turned into a turquoise garden, with an August 15 feast since 1855.
• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 12 mi
  A red brick Gothic Revival church of 1906 in a German farm settlement, where two San Antonio painters spent 1912 faking marble columns and stone vaults on wood.
• Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites — 13 mi
  A shared tomb on the Colorado River bluff for the men of the Dawson fight and the black bean lottery, beside the ruins of a German stonemason's spring-fed brewery.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 14 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.

More markers nearby

• James Carrel Bell — steps away
• Muldoon Community — 1.1 mi
• William Gorham — 5.6 mi
• Colony Cemetery — 7.1 mi