Florida Family Groupsheet for John Frederick SIMMONS Family #2 *********************************************** Copyright © by the submitter All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html *********************************************** SUBMITTED BY: Jennifer S. Wright e-mail: ========================================= Subject* John Frederick SIMMONS Birth* bet 1790-1794 NC, USA.1,2,3 Father* Zadock SIMMONS (b. c1756) Mother* Sarah CLAYBOURN (b. c1756, d. bef 1800) __________________________________________________________________________ Marriage* __________________________________________________________________________ Spouse* Father* Mother* __________________________________________________________________________ ?/F Lucy SIMMONS (1584) Name-Var: Lura F. SIMMONS Birth* c __ ___ 1825 GA, USA.6 Marriage* c __ ___ 1842 William B. DOKE (4744) (b. c1820)3 __________________________________________________________________________ ----------------- References ----------------- Margaret M. Hofmann, Genealogical Abstracts of Wills 1758 through 1824 Halifax County, North Carolina in no series (4th; Weldon, NC: The Roanoke News Company, 1970). no title. no title, n.d., See Source info of Betty Rodgers Elizabeth Weeks Mattair (Newberry, FL) Joe E. Craigmiles III, Thomas County, Georgia Marriages 1826-1925 in no series (516 N Broad St, PO Box 546, Thomasville, GA 31799 (912)226-2449: Craigmiles & Associates Publishing/Printing, n.d.), Marriage book B-85. no title, n.d., SIMMONS researcher, email: BOGAERTL@aol.com. Victor Davidson, no title in no series (Spartanburg, SC: The Repreint Company Publishers, 1978). Victor Davidson, unknown short title, Will of Zadock Simmons lists one son John, and grandson Zadock. I'm assuming this Zadock is grandson of former Zadock, son of his son John. Folks Huxford, Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia; A Biographical account of some of the Early Settlers of that portion of Wiregrass Georgia embraced on the Original Counties of Camden, Glynn, Wayne, Appling and Irwin in no series, I through IX (Jesup, GA: Sentinel Press, 1954), Vol VI, pgs. 502/3. Joe E. Craigmiles III, Thomas County, Georgia Marriages, page 175: Marriage book B-144. William Warren Rogers, no title in Florida State University Studies Number Thirty-nine (Tallahassee: The Florida State University, 1963), page 18, from the Thomasville newspaper _Southern Enterprise_, June 27, July 4, 1860: "In 1860 at Station, a settlement on the Florida line, a knife fight between John E. L. Stanaland and Samuel Simmons resulted in the death of Simmons. Stanaland was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for voluntary manslaughter." 1860 census for Jefferson Co., FL lists John STANALAND in residence neighboring Samuel SIMMONS: 444. STANALAND, John 34, 1200pp, GA, Convict. ========================================================