Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Simpson, Charles M. July 26 1853 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    CHARLES M. SIMPSON, merchant, of Good Water, Ala., is a son of Robert A. and
Martha A. (Bedell) Simpson, the former of whom was born in Laurens district, S.
C. His great-grandfather, Charlie Simpson, was one of three brothers who ran
away from home in Ireland and came to America. He settled in New York. The
father of Robert A. Simpson, Charlie Simpson, moved to South Carolina, and when
Robert A. was nine years old came to Chambers county, Ala., where the family
lived until the death of Charles Simpson. Robert A. Simpson was reared in that
county but married in Talbotton, Talbot county, Ga., and lived there two years.
He then moved back to Chambers county, where he lived until 1875, when he moved
back to the line of Tallapoosa and Clay counties. In 1890 he moved to Good
Water, where he how lives. There was a family of ten children, four sons and six
daughters. One of the sons is a physician at Anniston, Ala. The others are
farmers with the exception of Charles M. He was born in Talbotton, Ga., July 26,
1853, received a common school education, and began life for himself at the age
of twenty-one. He carried on farming and attended school at the same time for
several years, and then taught school for three years. He then became a clerk
for Smith & Taylor, and also for other firms in Alexander City, Ala. In 1879 he
commenced the mercantile business on his own account, and after several years
took in a partner, the name of the firm becoming C. M. Simpson & Co. He
continued a member of this firm till in January, 1892, since when he has given
his attention to farming. He was married June 30, 1887, in Good Water, to Lulu
A. 0'Neil, by whom he has had two children, Ethel L. and Hugh M. Politically Mr.
Simpson is a democrat; he is a royal arch Mason and is scribe of his chapter and
senior warden of his lodge; he is a Knight of Honor and is vice-dictator of his
lodge; he is a member of the order of the Knights of Pythias and is
vice-chancellor of his lodge; served three years as captain of the Coosa county
guards, a militia company now dissolved. Capt. Simpson is an energetic and
popular young man and takes great interest in what tends to benefit the
community as a whole.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 738-739



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