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From: "Okey Simmons" <>
Subject: Re: [SIMMONS] SIMMONS
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:00:31 -0500
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I thought it so Diana, but if memory serves me well, this William has a
different family than mine. Jeff Carr put this before me several years
ago. I hired a professional genealogist & she ended up with James & Susan
as I did, eliminating this family. I'm just sorry that the researcher in
England never got back to me, one Leo Simmons.
Thanks, Okey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana L. Clark" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SIMMONS] SIMMONS


> Okey, this may be yours:
>
> 1850 Pendleton Co, VA census: (North Fork Hills, 50th District)
> David Simmons, 27, stonemason
> Susan Simmons, 20
> Nancy Simmons 6
> Sarah Simmons 4
> William F. 1
> Phoebe Thompson, 24
>
> If your guy is James David or David James, this is likely him. Also, this
> would tie in with my Simmons from Pendleton Co., I'm pretty sure.
>
> In the 1860 census of Pendleton Co
> David 37, shoemaker
> Susan, 43
> Nancy 17
> Sarah 15
> William F 13
> Abraham 10
> George J 4
> Phoebe Thompson, still looks to be 24, but must be 34.
>
> The age differences doesn't matter that much, sometimes neighbors guessed
> the ages and told census takers.
>
> Hope this helps, Diana
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Okey Simmons" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [SIMMONS] SIMMONS
>
>
> You have the right family in the Pa. info' , that same William Frank
> married
> in Petersburg, Grant Co. 1870. Not long afterward they were in Bedford
> Co., Pa. About 1900 they returned.
> On the Register of Marriage s it shows his parents as well as hers.
> James & Susan is as listed. Nothing else on them. That same register
> shows his birth in Pendleton Co. I have yet to find any record of that.
> I was told family had a small landholding there but left. Why he left
> for Pa. raised his family & then came back is a question I've wondered
> about. I found there were 3 SIMMONS men filed for 400 acres in the
> Bedford Warrentiees of Land book, page 631 (1771-1893). One of those 3 was
> a
> William. It was roughly 46 yrs. before my William, but something I
> haven't looked at yet. Every search I've started has started with the
> marriage record.
> Checking the census records I also found the same James & family & thought
> ,
> maybe . . .but that William is too old. The marriage register listed his
> age 21 yrs. 4 mo., hers as 22.
> Thanks for the comeback & for the work you've already done.
> OKey
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Diana L. Clark" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 10:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [SIMMONS] SIMMONS
>
>
>> Okey: I have looked repeatedly through the census for your James &
>> Susan.
>> The closest I could find are:
>>
>> 1850 Norfolk (Independent City) VA.
>> James - 34, Cooper, b in VA
>> Susannah - 33, b in VA
>> Hannah E. - 10
>> James H. - 8
>> Williamson A. - 7/12
>> Charles H. 18
>> Elizabeth 14
>>
>> The only Wm and Martha Simmons I find are in Bedford, PA in 1880, both
>> state
>> they were born in W. VA. Wm states he is 29, which puts him born in
>> 1850 -51 and Martha is listed as 30. This could be why I couldn't find
>> another Wm Simmons born in 1849, he came later maybe?
>>
>> What exactly do you have documentation for that we can definitely use as
>> a
>> starting place? Are you sure of the names William and Susan as the
>> parents?
>> Do you have a general birth year or place for either?
>>
>> Diana
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Okey Simmons" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:51 PM
>> Subject: [SIMMONS] SIMMONS
>>
>>
>> I seldom post on this site so I guess I'm "new". I read of all the
>> names
>> each posting, hopefully this might be THE one. Never is. I thought I'd
>> try
>> again in a new approach. A contact in England claims my
>> James
>> Simmons is a relative & promised papers to prove same. That was 5
>> months
>> ago. Supposedly there were brothers, James & William SIMMONS. Their
>> offspring, another James & William (the way I understand, we talked by
>> phone) came to the USA. Hampshire, Hardy & Grant , especially Hardy was
>> mentioned by him. My James married Susan (?) date unknown. Their son,
>> William Frank, was born Aug. 1849 . This was my g grandfather. He
>> married Martha E. Johnston 2 Feb. 1870 in Grant Co. From there to here,
>> no
>> problem. James & Susan are my "brick wall". Okey Simmons
>>
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