This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YNJ.2ACIB/494.505 Message Board Post: I don't have he details at my fingertips, but there was a Daniel Cloud from KY who was killed at the Alamo. He wrote a rather famous letter to his relatives telling them why he joined the cause for Texas independence. It is possible that your Daniel was the son of a relative who named him after the Alamo Daniel.