Chambers-Lee-Tallapoosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Tillman S. Simmons 1845 - 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John Simmons http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007486 January 23, 2004, 9:28 pm Author: John Simmons Tillman S. Simmons was born in Chambers County, Alabama in May of 1845. His father was John W. Simmons born 1816 and died 1902. His mother was Lorena Welden Simmons. She was born in 1820 and died in 1886. Tillman was raised on his father's farm. His father moved the family to Tallapoosa County in 1856 to an area known as Church Hill. When war came in 1861, he saw his two older brothers go off to war. He lost both of them in the Gettysburg campaign in 1863. Tillman enlisted as a private in Capt. John H. Echol's Company of Provost Guards on January 1st 1864 at age 17. He enlisted from Tallapoosa. This company later became Company A of the 2nd Alabama Reserves. His regiment later became the 63rd Alabama Infantry Regiment. The 63rd was sent to Mobile to defend that city. His regiment fought at Spanish Fort and later at the seige of Blakely. He was captured with the fall of Blakely and sent to POW camp and later paroled. Tillman attained the rank of Corporal. He survived the war and returned to Tallapoosa County where he was married to Narcissa Jane Brewer June 3rd 1866. He raised a family and was a farmer. He moved his family to East Tallassee and later to Phenix in Lee County, Alabama. He died on December 7th 1904 after suffering a stroke related to Bright's Disease and was buried at Philadelphia Church Cemetery near what is now Smith Station, Alabama in Lee County. His wife Narcissa was the daughter of Alford Brewer and Mary Coleman. She was born near Covington in Newton County, Georgia on July 14th 1839. She died in Phenix, Lee County, Alabama on July 22nd 1917. She is buried near her husband. Tillman and Narcissa had the following children: 1. Mary Simmons born about 1867. She married William S. Blackmon John Henry Simmons born April 2nd 1869. and died May 25th 1931. He married Emma Pearl Saxon about 1889 2. Albert Simmons born about 1872 3. Charles Simmons born about 1875 4. Carrie Simmons born about 1879 she married Perry Newman This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb