NY Family Group Sheet for the Andrew Simmons Family

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Submitted by: Cindy Simmons
Email address: shindei2@aol.com or cindymarie@volny.cz


HUSBAND: Andrew SIMMONS
Birthdate: Apr. 20, 1807, Columbia Co., NY
Death date: Jul. 4, 1884 , Walton, Delaware Co., NY
date and place of marriage: 1st wife: m. bef. 1836
other marriages: 2nd wife: m. Jul. 3, 1849, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
military service:  no
father: Conrad Simmons/Conrad Simon
mother: Maria ______ - see notes below
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WIFE: Catherine Rosa 
(baptismal name: Anna Catharina Rose)
Birthdate: Aug. 22, 1832, Woodstock, Ulster Co., NY
other marriages:
date and place of marriage: July 3, 1849, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
Death date: Mar. 16, 1902, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
father: Jacobus/James Rosa
mother: Maria(h)/Polly Brink (Her last name might not be Brink.)
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CHILD 1: Charles Ray
Birthdate: Sept. 13, 1850, Walton, Delaware Co. NY
married: Harriet (Hattie) E Heath
date and place of marriage: Dec. 1, 1882, Cato, Manitowoc Co., WI
other marriages: no
Death date: Nov. 7, 1947, Riverside Hospital Cemetery, Pleasant Valley, CT
children: Earl, Pearl, Carol
lived in: They returned to NY in 1900 and lived in Delaware Co., NY. Before 1905 
   they moved to Long Island (Richmond Hill and Brooklyn, NY).
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CHILD 2: Ursula
Birthdate: Apr. 8, 1852, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: no
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
Death date: Sept. 24, 1854, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
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CHILD 3: James G
Birthdate: Sept. 5, 1854, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: no
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
Death date: Nov. 7, 1888, age 34, Walton, Delaware Co., NY, of Scarlet
Fever
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CHILD 4: Alonzo
Birthdate: Jun. 15, 1856, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: Armena "Minnie" France d/o Jacob & Elizabeth _____ France
date and place of marriage: 1885, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
children:  Floyd Jacob
other marriages:  no
Death date: Mar. 30, 1928, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
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CHILD 5: Martha J (Mattie)
Birthdate: Apr. 20, 1859, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: John Frink
date and place of marriage: Sept. 12, 1877, Delhi, Delaware Co., NY
children:  Eva, twin daughters, Ray
other marriages: no
Death date: Still living in 1930.
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CHILD 6: Nelson B
Birthdate: Mar. 6, 1861, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: Harriet/Hattie J Houghtailing - adopted daughter of George 
   Houghtaling and Melissa Taylor
date and place of marriage: Feb. 3, 1887, Loomis, Delaware Co., NY 
   (Hattie left him for his brother Clarence.)
children: Irma, Martha
other marriages: no
Death date: Sept. 28, 1915, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
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CHILD 7: George M
Birthdate: Jul. 30, 1862, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: maybe Nancy Henderson (d/o Halsey & Francis____ Henderson)?
date and place of marriage:
children:  "maybe" George, Mabel, Eva/Iva, Leona
other marriages:
Death date: Still living in 1913 (He abandoned his family and went to
Canada.)
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CHILD 8: Mary Adelia
Birthdate: Jun. 12, 1864, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: no
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
Death date: Dec. 18, 1864, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
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CHILD 9: Julia Etta
Birthdate: May 6, 1866, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: Oliver John Rivenburg(h)
date and place of marriage:
children:  Albert, Ada, Leon, Hazel-Maude
other marriages:  no
Death date: Jan. 18, 1951, Hamden, Delaware Co., NY
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CHILD 10: William Henry #2
Birthdate: Mar.  23, 1869, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: Eudora Marie Atwell (d/o Rummer Henry Atwell & Sarah Benedict)
date and place of marriage: Jul. 15, 1897, Fergus Falls, MN
children: Ross, Ward, Gertrude
other marriages: no
Death date: Aug. 3, 1938, Monticello, Wright Co., MN
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CHILD 11: Clarence Edward
Birthdate: Mar. 16, 1872, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: Harriet J Houghtaling (see Nelson)
date and place of marriage: In July 1894, they ran off together and moved to Mass.
  The marriage ended in divorce.
children:  He raised Nelson's daughter Irma. He and Hattie had Florence, (stillborn), 
   Howard, Clarence, Muriel, Arthur, Edward
Death date: Still living in 1914.
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CHILD 12: Mary Viola
Birthdate: Mar. 19, 1874, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
married: no
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
Death date: May 19, 1874, 6 weeks, Walton, Delaware Co., NY
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SOURCES:
- Walton, Delaware Co., NY census records
- Delaware Co., NY GenWeb
- family letter written by Ada Rivenburg Holley (daughter of John & Julia Simmons Rivenburg)
- documentation obtained from Delaware Co., NY
- additional information from descendants of William #2, Julia and Clarence
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NOTES:
I would like to positively identify Andrew's mother.  Her name is either Maria
Kellerhaus or Maria Beard.  (** Even though Maria Beard is listed as his mother
on his death record, I believe that she is his step-mother because of Greene Co.
NY census records.**)

2nd marriage