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At this time this is all that is known about this family. This was typed from a file compiled by Verna P. Bracey. As more is research this file will be updated and corrected. Some parts of this genealogy were taken by using census records, bible records and cemetery records.


I. SAMUEL SIMMONS

SAMUEL SIMMONS married Elizabeth [Smith]. At this time only four children are known.

John Simmons
– Samuel Simmons
– Joseph Simmons
– William Simmons


II. JOHN SIMMONS

JOHN SIMMONS, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Simmons, was born about 1770. He married Elizabeth Baugh on 23 September 1790. They had at least four children:

William Baugh Simmons
– Nancy Baugh Simmons, m. James McAden on 21 February 1821
Elizabeth James Simmons
– John Simmons


III. WILLIAM BAUGH SIMMONS

WILLIAM BAUGH SIMMONS, son of John and Elizabeth (Baugh) Simmons, was born about 1791 and died in November 1827. He married Nancy Watkins Ogburn on 14 October 1811. They had four children:

John Watkins Simmons
Angelina Elizabeth Simmons
– William Hart Simmons, b. 1821
Lucy Ann Simmons , b. 1825; m. Walter Webb Hite on 12 December 1843


III. ELIZABETH JAMES SIMMONS

ELIZABETH JAMES SIMMONS, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Baugh) Simmons, was born 9 June 1802 and died 12 July 1852. She married Robert Moore on 6 September 1821. He was born 7 January 1800 and died in 1836. They had at least seven children:

– William Harrison Moore, b. 4 May 1824
– Martha Henry Moore, b. 20 January 1826; d. December 1845
Mary Jane Moore
– John Simmons Moore, b. 3 December 1829
– Margaret S. Moore, b. 13 August 1831; d. 6 July 1908
Samuel Thomas Moore
– Robert Moore, Jr, b. 4 July 1836


IV. MARY JANE MOORE

MARY JANE MOORE, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Simmons) Moore, was born 18 December 1827 and died 24 April 1864. She married James Land Hite on 30 September 1847 in Warrenton, North Carolina. They had eight children:

– Eppa Hite, b. abt 1848; d. 11 June 1918
– Martha Elizabeth Hite, b. 1 October 1852; d. 27 January 1932; m. Abner Paschal Bracey
– Samuel J. Hite, b. abt 1855
– Margaret L. Hite, b. abt 1857
– Anna Myrtle Hite, b. 1858
– James Dalby Hite, b. abt 1860
– Mary Osborne Hite, b. 23 February 1862; d. 7 July 1909
– Robert L. Hite, b. abt 1865; d. 7 November 1946


IV. SAMUEL THOMAS MOORE

SAMUEL THOMAS MOORE, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Simmons) Moore, was born 26 February 1834. He married Elva A. in 1856. The had at least ten children:

– Carrie E. Moore, b. abt 1858
– Blanche Moore, b. abt 1859
– Mattie A. Moore, b. abt 1860
– Mary L. Moore, b. abt 1865
– Maggie Lucy Moore, b. abt 1866
– Samuel Thomas Moore, Jr., b. 21 February 1868; d. June 1955; m. Annie Myrtle Bracey
– Robert H. Moore, b. abt 1869
– Elva Moore, b. abt 1870
– Willie Harrison Moore, b. 1879; d. 1863
– Nina R. Moore, b. September 1879


IV. JOHN WATKINS SIMMONS

JOHN WATKINS SIMMONS, son of William B. and Nancy W. (Ogburn) Simmons, was born 11 August 1812, and died 10 September 1861. He married Jane Lucas Willson on Aug. 11, 1834. She was born 29 March 1818 and died 9 January 1901. They had eight children (possibly 10):

– William W. Simmons, b. 8 September 1835; d. 23 July 1841
– Mary Jane Simmons, b. 11 November 1836; m. Tanner
– Elizabeth A. Simmons, b. 7 July 1837; d. 25 September 1883; m. William Hicks Bracey
Lavenia Frances Simmons
– Benjamin W. Simmons, b. 17 June 1842; d. 26 July 1863, in Confederate service at Chimbaraza Hospital in Richmond, VA.
Myrtilla C. Simmons
Susan A. Simmons
– William H. Simmons, b. 22 April 1851; d. 12 July 1913
– Lula Watkins Simmons, b. 3 September 1855
John Walter Simmons, b. 18 July 1859; d. 12 July 1936


V. LAVENIA FRANCES SIMMONS

LAVENIA FRANCES SIMMONS, son of John and Jane (Willson) Simmons, was born 20 January 1840. She married Joseph May Harris on 9 January 1861. They had at least one child:

– Anna May Harris, b. 20 November 1867


V. MYRTILLA C. SIMMONS

MYRTILLA C. SIMMONS, daughter of John and Jane (Willson) Simmons, was born 4 March 1844. She married Henry R. Thomas on 10 June 1861.


V. SUSAN A. SIMMONS

SUSAN A. SIMMONS, daughter of John and Jane (Willson) Simmons, was born 25 December 1848 and died 18 June 1886. She married Robert R. Farrar. They had at least one child:

– Mollie W. Farrar, b. 30 December 1871


V. JOHN WALTER SIMMONS

JOHN WALTER SIMMONS, youngest son of John and Jane (Willson) Simmons, was born 18 July 1859 and died 12 July 1936. He married Lucy Angelina Ogburn on 2 December 1879. They had three children:

– Margaret Lee Simmons, b. 14 October 1880; d. 20 September 1905
– Lucy Watkins Simmons, b. 4 October 1882; d. 3 October 1969
– Elva May Simmons, b. 1890; d. 1962; m. Clifford Hill Shaw


IV. ANGELINA ELIZABETH SIMMONS

ANGELINA ELIZABETH SIMMONS, daughter of William B. and Nancy W. (Ogburn) Simmons, was born 9 October 1815, and died 28 March 1883. She married Paschal Hicks Bracey on 4 October 1835. They had seven children:

Virginius Samuel Bracey , b. December 1837
Altamont Hart Bracey , b. 20 July 1841
Viola Angelina Bracey, b. 1845
Adolphus Watkins Bracey , b. 19 July 1846
Abner Paschal Bracey , b. 25 July 1849
Cornelius Ogburn Bracey , b. 9 December 1851
Estelle Missouri Bracey , b. 10 June 1854


IV. LUCY ANN SIMMONS

LUCY ANN SIMMONS, daughter of William B. and Nancy W. (Ogburn) Simmons, was born in 1826. She married Walter Webb Hite on 2 December 1843, with the consent of Paschal Bracey, her guardian.


II. SAMUEL SIMMONS

SAMUEL SIMMONS, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Simmons, was born about 1772. He married Elizabeth Coleman on 15 August 1795. He married, second, before 1808 (M.D.B. 13, p. 611) Elizabeth Edmondson. He married third, Mary -----. on 28 September 1814. He had at least eight children:

Wiltshire Simmons
– Samuel Simmons
– Joseph Simmons
Green Jones Simmons
– Elisabeth S. Simmons m. Wesley F. Edmundson 7 January 1837
– Polly Simmons m. Drury Lett 9 January 1827
– Rebecca Simmons m. William W. Curtis 20 January 1830
– Julia Glynn Simmons m. Richard Henry Coleman 4 November 1829


III. WILTSHIRE SIMMONS

WILTSHIRE SIMMONS, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Coleman) Simmons, was born in 1796 and died 16 March 1874. He married Angelina C. Edmonson on 2 March 1830 She was born in 1798. They had at least two children:

– Nancy Simmons, b. 1835
– Samuel W. Simmons, b. 1837


IV. SAMUEL W. SIMMONS

SAMUEL W. SIMMONS, son of Wiltshire and Angelina (Edmonson) Simmons, was born in 1837. He married Jeanette M. McCargo on 12 October 1859. She was born in 1838. They had seven children:

– Orlando Lee Simmons, b. 1863; d. 1936
– Lola O. Simmons, b. abt 1864
– Samuel W. Simmons, b. 26 September 1865; d. 21 September 1946
– Radford M. Simmons, b. abt 1868
– Thomas Goode Simmons, b. 12 March 1870; d. 1 January 1949
– James Edward Simmons, b. 8 March 1875; d. 19 January 1962
– Richard Green Simmons, b. 25 August 1876; d. 16 March 1931


V. ORLANDO LEE SIMMONS

ORLANDO LEE SIMMONS, son of Samuel and Jeanette (McCargo) Simmons, was born in 1863 and died in 1936. He married Nora Dortch. She was born in 1865 and died in 1947. They had at least four children:

– Jeanette W. Simmons, b. abt 1888
– Wiltshire McCargo Simmons, b. 25 September 1889; d. 27 September 1967
– Hattie G. Simmons, b. abt 1892
– Anna G. Simmons, b. abt 1893


VI. WILTSHIRE MCCARGO SIMMONS

WILTSHIRE MCCARGO SIMMONS, son of Orlando and Nora (Dortch) Simmons, was born 24 September 1889 and died 27 September 1967. He married Annie Crymes. She was born 21 April 1893 and died 26 January 1975. They had at least two children:

– Wiltshire McCargo Simmons, Jr., b. 23 December 1916; d. 6 May 1975
– Edward Randolph Simmons, b. 2 August 1919; d. 25 December 1958


V. THOMAS GOODE SIMMONS

THOMAS GOODE SIMMONS, son of Samuel and Jeanette (McCargo) Simmons, was born 12 March 1870 and died 1 January 1949. He married Lucy Walker. They had at least four children:

– Abner L. Simmons, b. abt 1904
– Henry Goode Simmons, b. 1905; d. 1905
– Weston Virginia Simmons, b. 4 December 1907; d. 17 March 1955
– Thomas Goode Simmons, Jr., b. abt 1909


III. GREEN JONES SIMMONS

GREEN JONES SIMMONS, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Edmundson) Simmons, was born in Mecklenburg Couny, Virginia, on 13 May 1813 and died 17 January 1897 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He married Frances Taylor in 1830. She was born in Wilson County, Tennessee. in 1808, and died on Nov. 17, 1853 in Davidson County, Tennessee. They had eight children:

– Elizabeth Simmons m. ----- McCrory
– William Samuel Simmons
– Demarcus Green Simmons
– Richard Montgomery Simmons
– Frances Simmons m. ----- Beauchamp
– Louisa Simmons m. ----- Roberts
– Philly Simmons
– Lunceford Simmons


II. JOSEPH SIMMONS

JOSEPH SIMMONS, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Simmons, was born 6 October 1774 and died 4 September 1819. He married Elizabeth Harrison on 11 May 1797. She was born 8 September 1779 and died 4 December 1802. They had three children:

– Sally Ann Simmons, b. 9 June 1798; m. John C. Phillips on 6 June 1816
– James Henry Simmons, b. 13 August 1799
Samuel Smith Simmons , b. 20 March 1801; m. Sally Creedle on 20 June 1825

Joseph Simmons married, second, Rebekah Denton on 29 June 1803. She was born 26 January 1774 and died 25 October 1807. They had three children:

– Elizabeth Simmons, b. 10 April 1804
– John Simmons, b. 9 June 1805
– Benjamin Glenn Simmons, b. 4 October 1806

Joseph Simmons married, third, Lucy ----- on 6 August 1808. She was born 26 September 1787 and died 11 September 1815. They had three children:

– Henry Harris Simmons, b. 1 April 1809; d. 15 August 1812
– Robert Smith Simmons, b. 22 February 1811; d. 1847; m. Ann F. Hughes 24 December 1832
– Joseph Pollard Simmons, b. 19 September 1813; m. Martha Mallett on 30 January 1840

Joseph Simmons married, fourth, Martha Phillips (widow) on 6 May 1816. (Martha Hutcheson married, first Dabney Phillips, Jr., on 6 January 1801.) Martha was born 10 March 1782. They had one child:

– James Henry Simmons, b. 21 March 1818

His will is recorded in Mecklenburg Will Book 9, p. 82.
Most of the above dates are from a Bible owned by a descendant in Florida and copied by the late Mrs. Annie Simmons of South Hill, Virginia. Marriage dates from Marriage Records of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, by Katherine B. Elliott.


III. SAMUEL SMITH SIMMONS

SAMUEL SMITH SIMMONS, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Harrison) Simmons, was born 20 March 1801 and died after the 1860 census. He married Sally Creedle on 20 June 1825 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. They moved to Logan County, Ky. about 1852 or 1853. He bought land from Turner Gupton on McAdo Creek, 140 A., in 1856. He had eight children: (maybe nine)

– Elizabeth H. Simmons
– Jane Simmons, b. 1826
– James Simmons, b. 1828
– Harriette Simmons, b. 1830, m. Amos Wilson
– Sarah Ann Simmons, b. 1832, m. John Wilson 5 May 1859
– Martha Jane Simmons, m. Richard Wilson on 26 December 1854
– Emily R. Simmons, b. 1834
– Mary E. Simmons, b. 1836,
– Virginia Coleman Simmons, b. 1843, m. William Esley Cox on 7 April 1864


II. WILLIAM SIMMONS

WILLIAM SIMMONS, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Simmons, was born about 1760-1765. He married Grissel. They had at least six children:

– Henry S. Simmons
– William Simmons
– Samuel Simmons
– Edmund Simmons
– Edward Simmons
– James Simmons

And a possible:

– Lucinda Simmons

 

 
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