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This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Simmons and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.
The main surname spelling variations, because of regional differences, have been Simmons, Simons, Simonds, Symons, and Symonds. The Simmons spelling accounts worldwide for about 70% of all these spellings today.
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- William Simmons, (may be Simons). Northern Kentucky and Southern Ohio. German heritage, may have been born in Maryland. Died in 1907 and is buried at Southgate Cemetery in Kentucky. Married to Charlotte (Lottie or Lotta) Wencel (or variant). He had a factory in Cincinnati. I can find very little on him or Charlotte. Thanks! Laurie Simmons (Simmons 8120)
- Trying to determine the parents of Nancy Ann Simmons (b. Laurens, SC 1802; d. Laurens, SC c 1887). m. John Madden (b. Laurens, SC 1797; d. Laurens, SC 1857). Had a son Charles Simmons Madden. Possible father might be Charles Simmons, Jr., but unsure.
Simmons Resources:
Select Simmons Surname Genealogy - Website. http://www.selectsurnames3.com/simmons.html
Wilson Family History by Wendell E. Wilson. Chapter on Ancestry of Eada Simmons of Tennessee http://www.minrec.org/wilson/pdfs/16B.%20%20Simmons.pdf
Ancestors and descendants of Isaac Newton Simmons by Tom Simmons, brown books publishing. 1997 https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE952893
The family Simmons living in Perry and Forrest County Mississippi on Leaf River and Bear Creek- Early 1800's thru 1995 James Simmons. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE952746
The Simmons family : thirteen generations, 1615 - 2001 Research conducted by David V. Simmons, Eugene C. & Genevieve E. Simmons, Thomas N. & Betty L. Simmons, Marvin N. & Ann E. Simmons https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE952698
The Simmons family at Harvard university, and other data : Esther Minerva Simmons and Baxendale memorial foundation at Harvard; John Simmons, founder of Simmons college by: Simmons, Frederick Johnson, 1884- https://archive.org/stream/simmonsfamilyath00simm#page/4/mode/2up/search/green
History of the Simmons family, from Moses Simmons, 1st. : (Moyses Symonson) ship Fortune, 1621, to and including the eleventh generation in some lines, and very nearly complete to the third and fourth generations from Moses 1st. by: Simmons, Lorenzo Albert, 1857- https://archive.org/stream/historyofsimmons00simm#page/n7/mode/2up/search/jehu
The ancestry of John Simmons : founder of Simmons college by: Rowe, Henry Sherburne, 1933 https://archive.org/stream/ancestryofjohnsi00rowe#page/n5/mode/2up/search/jehu
Our Simmons family at the University of Maine by: Simmons, Frederick Johnson, 1884- https://archive.org/stream/oursimmonsfamily00simm#page/n9/mode/2up
The Simmons family at Boston University and at Tufts College : descendants of Thomas Simmons of Scituate, Massachusetts, and of Moses Simmons of Duxbury, Massachusetts, Ship Fortune, 1621 : biographical and genealogical sketches by: Simmons, Frederick Johnson, 1884- https://archive.org/stream/simmonsfamilyatb00simm#page/n5/mode/2up
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The big brick wall is behind Lafayette W Simmons, my husbands great grandfather. A photo copy of an old Family Bible, possibly his, lists birthdates of he and his wife, Mary Ellen Chambers ( 1842-1916, daughter of John Anson Chambers and Rachel Ann Smith of Bartholomew County Indiana). It also charts birth and death dates of all their children and grandchildren, who were living between 1872- 1920’s in Wright County Missouri. I have thoroughly searched records of all his descendants.
Lafayette W Simmons ( Simmons-5705) was born Mar 15, 1832 in Montgomery County, Ohio. I have Probate Records that show his indenture (as a poor boy) in 1839, and again in 1841 in Shelby County, Ohio. Those indentures were to Nathanial Albee, and then to Christopher Allen. He is found in the household of Christopher Allen in the US Fed Census 1850, in Shelby County. On Apr 11, 1857 he was married in Bartholomew County, Indiana. He served for the Union in the Civil War, then received a Land Grant in Wright County, MO. After the 1870 Census in Jackson, Shelby, Indiana, he and his family migrated to their new home near Hartville, Wright County, MO. From there the family scattered mostly to Tulsa, Oklahoma and then some to the West Coast.
The only other facts I have are not conclusive to even know where his parents were born, only that he probably knew who they were, and maybe had other relatives in Indiana. He claimed his father’s birthplace on one census as simply “Baden”, and on another as England. His mother was either born in Ohio or Indiana.
I can’t imagine that a young child could be indentured until the age of 18, with ample records; but without any record of him becoming a ward of the court, or of who the parents were.
I’ll be glad to help anyone with this Simmons line. Just hoping to discover Lafayette’s ancestors or siblings.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Simmons-17099
Billie