Grayson County TXGenWeb

Sidney Sherman

1805 - 1873

Sidney Sherman was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts and orphaned as a teen. He worked in a store in Boston to support himself. He moved to New York City and then settled in Newport, Kentucky in 1831. He engaged in the manufacture of cotton bagging. Sidney Sherman and Catharine Isabel Cox married in 1835. They had eight children.

People from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky funded ammunition and weapons to support Texas in her struggle against the Mexican government. In January 1836, they left for Texas with Sidney Sherman serving as captain of the company known as the "Kentucky Rifles."

New volunteers joined with Sam Houston and organized into one regiment with Edward Burleson as captain and Sidney Sherman his lieutenant. Sherman led his troops at the Battle of San Jacinta and they are generally credited as first uttering the famous warcry, "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!"

Sherman became colonel of the cavalry of the new Republic of Texas. He returned home to Kentucky to recruit more men for the Texan army. For his services during the revolution, Sherman was granted large tracts of land as a token of gratitude from the legislature. Returning to Texas with his wife and her young brother, he settled near San Jacinta Bay.

Sherman was a member of the Texas House of Representatives for Harris County. During his service as a representative, he introduce a bill providing for the election of a Major General of the Militia for the protection of the frontier.

The town of Sherman, Texas and Sherman County, Texas are named in his honor. A memorial to General Sidney Sherman is located in Galveston, Texas.

Col. Sidney Sherman died in 1873 and was re-buried in Lakeview Cemetery, 3015 - 57th Street, Galveston in 1894 next to his friend David G. Burnet, the first Provisional President of the Republic of Texas.