Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....Simpson, William H. 1857 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM H. SIMPSON, attorney-at-law, Hartselle, Ala., was born at Danville,
this State, July 15. 1857, and attended school there until he went to college at
Tuscaloosa, where he was graduated in the law department of the State University
in 1879. Prior to his entering college he read law four months at Tuscumbia
under Governor Lindsey, was admitted to the bar in October. 1879, and licensed
to practice in the Supreme Court of the State in February, 1886. He was elected
to the Legislature on the Democratic ticket in 1886.

    Mr. Simpson seems to have things very much his own way in Hartselle, being
the only lawyer there, and his practice, which is mostly in common law and
equity, gives him about as much work as he can do. He was married March 26,
1882, to Miss Mary Daniel Johnson, a daughter of Daniel Johnson, who was killed
in the battle of Shiloh when Mary was an infant, and she was given his full name
in honor of his memory.

    Stephen and Malinda (Stovall) Simpson, our subject's parents, were residents
of Danville, where Stephen Simpson was a merchant for more than thirty years. He
was postmaster at various times, before, during and since the war. He
accumulated a fortune, but lost heavily by the war and by the credit system. He
was a Baptist and a Mason.

    He died at Danville in June, 1884. Malinda Stovall (William's mother) was a
daughter of Drew Stovall, one of the pioneers who helped expel the Indians from
the country. He accumulated a large fortune in land and slaves, and died just
before the late war.

    Moses Simpson (William's grandfather) and his sons, James and Thomas, came
down the Tennessee river on a flat boat, from the Sequatchie Valley, Tenn., in
1823, and made a corn crop where Decatur is now located. In the fall of that
year, he brought his family there, and afterwards entered land near Danville and
there located permanently.

    He raised a family of eight sons and four daughters: James, Thomas,
Abington, William, George, Reuben, Stephen, Moses, Matilda, Polly, Betsy, and
Emily.

    Stephen reared four sons and one daughter. They are Walter T., now of Texas;
Wm. H., our subject; Claud, who died in 1883, and Edgar, now near Selma. Orrie,
the daughter, married W. V. Echols, a merchant of Hartselle.

    William H. Simpson is a popular and prosperous young man, and received the
largest vote for the Legislature that was ever cast in his county for one man.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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