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Date: 31 May 2002 09:25:22 -0600

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Abraham Simmons was married to Elizabeth Ann Spahr. They had three sons.They lived in Crawford CO Ohio and married Feb 12, 1843. David, the eldest, was a music teacher. He married a Lyde Cox and had a son named Clarence Melvin. When Lyde died at a very young age David turned his son over to his father Abraham and his mother Elizabeth to raise. David married a second time and had a son named David Simmons Junior. Then David Sr. also died Abraham moved to Virginia with his grandson Clarence Melvin to live with his son Joshua in Dinwiddie County. Joshua had a farm in Dinwiddie and his father bought one also. Clarence Melvin also died at about 29 years of age and he is buried at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg.
A son named John (Jonathan) remained in Ohio.
Abraham remarried to a Phebe Smith in VA and he disappeared from their home on December 11, 1895 and he never was heard from again.
Abraham was the youngest of eleven children. His eldest brother was named Lawrence. Lawrence moved to Crawford Co, Ohio after their mother died. Their parents had lived in Washington, Co PA. Their father was killed by Indians. After living in Ohio his brother, Lawrence moved to Kentucky where his descendants likely remain. His daughter was Mrs C.D. Rothenberg who lived at 728 Aurora Ave in Lexington, KY.
Abraham wrote a will on 16 October 1895. Then on December 5, 1895 he ammended his will with a codical. Sixteen years later a lawyer filed papers with the Dinwiddie County Court, an application for the probate of Abraham's will.
March 13th of 1912 a lawyer filed with the Dinwiddie Courts a very interesting document for David Simmons of Liepsic Ohio, claiming he was the sole heir of Abraham Simmons. He was the son of David Simmons by his second marriage to a Mary A Robb. He always apparently lived in Ohio and in this document it states he still lived in Liepsic, Ohio.
This paper was filed sixteen years after Abraham had disappeared from his home and was never heard from again. It is stated in these documents that it is assumed that Abraham was now deceased. His second wife Phebe had married again after his disappearance and she had died when this paper was filed. Before his disappearance Abraham made a codicil to his will leaving his 70 acres and any personal property to his wife, but if she remarried or died then the property was to go to his grandson's Clarence and David. Clarence died in 1900. His second wife, Phebe remarried several years after his disappearance and when this paper was filed she also had died so the property in Dinwiddie passed to David Simmons Jr of Liepsic Ohio.
Joshua was living still and he had many descendants but apparently they had never challenged this will or the codicil leaving the property to David.

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