Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


John L. SIMMONS

1.  The Martha Chitwood records reports that William was son of Robert and Ann Miller.

   THE FOLLOWING GROUP OF NOTES SHOULD BE UNDER John L. Simmons, who was William's brother.

1.  As a boy, John Simmons accompained his parents to what is now Franklinton, Louisiana.

2.  Occupation:  John was a blacksmith.

3.  He was a member of Louisiana 13th Reg't Militia (from Pike and Marion Counties, "Nixon's Reg't") where in the engagement near the city tthe British were defeated with great losses.   His being in Louisiana at that time is quite probable as his father moved most of the family to Natchez in 1802;  some thought he had remained behind in Tennessee with his older sister Elizabeth who married Col. James Raulston that year, which, is probably incorrect.

4.  When the emergency was over, John Simmons contacted Colonel Raulston and accompainied him back to Nashville, Tennessee.    

5.  It is possible John mustered out in Tennessee as he married Naomi Jared in Jackson County, Tennessee in 1815.

6.  1840 Census Jackson County, Tennessee, Disrict #13.  [Putnam as of 1854]

7.  John is on 1860 Wright County, Missouri Census with his wife, Naomi Jared when the Civil War began.  He was s Southern sympathizer and it nerly cost him his life.  Threatened with arrests for having served Confederate cavalry in his shop, he refused to be taken.  His daughter Elizabeth seized a hoe and, holding its sharp point over the head of the Union soldier whose pistol was leveled at her father, shouted, “Shoot and I will sink this hoe in your brain”!  This display of courage and devotion struck at the heart of the Union commander.  He ordered his men out, congratulated Elizabeth, saluted and left.

8.  The War of 1812 Association" (?) have installed a marker with the above information in paragraph 3, and that saying that he was a private.

9.  John Simmons died 1 October 1868 and was first buried near Thomasville, Missouri.  His wife Naomi Jared died in Mountain Grove, Missouri, 24 December 1876 and was buried in the Old Cemetery.  John’s remains were later moved and reburied beside her.  For information on a part of John Simmon’s ancestry see “The Pickens Family” by Kate Pickens Day.


Moses Jared SIMMONS

1.  Moses died young


Frank Robert MC AULIFFE

1.  US Army