Simmonds



From: John Simmons [ 1776again (at) earthlink.net ] 



Here is information on John W. Simmons. His son Andrew settled in Hempstead County. 



I have genealogy data that could help some folks in Hempstead County. My ancestor had 14 children. One of the younger boys moved his entire family to Texas and then on to Arkansas. The family was headed by Andrew Robert Simmons and Ella Laney Simmons had 10 children when they left Tallapoosa County, Alabama in 1903. I have information from sources in Tennessee that the family settled in Shover Springs, Hempstead County, Arkansas. I am sendiing along some information for you to include on the ArkansasGenWeb site. My home address is 185 College Avenue,Talbotton, Georgia 31827, my name is John Eady Simmons Jr. I am descendant from Tillman Sanders Simmons. The date of birth for Andrew Simmons that I have is different from the that of the source from Tennessee. I believe that mine is more accurate. 

--- John Simmons 



John W. Simmons was born on May 18th 1816 in Georgia in either Putnam or Oglethorpe counties. His family moved to Harris County, Georgia and were living there in 1832.  He married Lorena Welden  on November 30th 1837 in Harris County, Georgia and started a family.  He and Lorena lived on a farm in the northwestern part of Harris County. They  had several children before moving to Alabama. After the recording of the1840 census, John and Lorena have moved across the Chattahoochee River into Chambers County, Alabama. By 1856 he had moved his large family to an area in eastern Tallapoosa County known as Church Hill. When war came in 1861 his two eldest sons, Henry and Allen Simmons, enlisted with the 47th Alabama Infantry in Company B.  Both sons were lost in the Gettysburg campaign in 1863. One was killed in action at Gettysburg and the other was captured and died in POW camp at Ft. Delaware.  John's younger son, Tillman S. Simmons, enlisted in the 2nd Alabama Reserve Regiment later designated the 63rd Alabama Infantry and fought at Mobile, Spanish Fort, and Blakely. John at age 48 enlisted as a private in Company A of the 3rd Alabama Reserve Infantry Regiment at Camp Watts near Notasulga, Alabama on the 1st of April 1864. He served until the 4th of April 1865. He survived the war and remained in the area of Tallapoosa,Chambers, and Lee Counties of Alabama until his death April 18th 1902. He is buried at Roxana Methodist Church Cemetery in Lee County, Alabama. 



His wife Lorena was born August 20th 1820 in Georgia and died January 12th 1886. She is also buried at Roxana Cemetery in Lee County, Alabama. 



Children included the following:



1.	Margarette M. born September 13th 1838. She died July 18th 1907



2.	Henry D. born about 1839 and died July 3rd 1863

	married W.A. Finch September 29th 1861



3.	Jackson born about 1841. He died before 1855



4.	Allen G. born about 1842 and died October 9th 1863



5.	Martha J. born February 14th 1842. She married Henry C. Dillard  Feb 26th 	1866. She died August 6th 1928



6.	Mary F. born February 14th 1842. She died March 16th 1928



7.	Tillman S. born May 1845 and died December 7th 1904. He married Narcissa Brewer June 3rd 1866



8.	Thomas J. born August 1846 and died about 1925,married Margaret Hays November 17th 1868



9.	Zeph T. born November 20th 1847 and died December 25th 1857



10.	Sara A. born January 25th 1849. She died Jan 5th 1895



11.	Joseph W. born April 7th 1849 and died Sept 25th 1925. He married Malissa 	Davidson  January 8th 1874



12.	Elizabeth Antionett born July 3rd 1850 and died December 6th 1912. She 	married  William Dawson Cosby December 17th 1874



13.	Andrew Robert  born December 1852 and died August 22nd 1934. He married  Ella Laney November 14th 1882



14.	James B. born August 26th 1854 and died April 1st 1931. He married  Mary Loucilla Kimbrough August 11th 1878