Tallapoosa-Lee-Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....Simmons, John May 18, 1816 - April 18, 1902 ************************************************ 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 guardian62@hushmail.com February 28, 2017, 9:23 pm Source: Personal research Author: John Eady Simmons Jr. John W. Simmons was born on May 18th 1816 in Georgia in either Putnam or Oglethorpe counties. His father was Solomon S. Simmons and his mother was Sarah/Sally Ware. John's family moved to Harris County,Georgia from Crawford County, Georgia and were living there in 1832. John married Lorena Welden on November 30th 1837 in Harris County, Georgia and started a family. He and Lorena lived on a farm in the north western part of Harris County in G.M.D. 781 within about 10 miles of West Point. They had several children while they lived in Harris County. After 1832 and the Creek Session in Alabama new counties were formed. John and Lorena and family moved across the Chattahoochee River into Chambers County, Alabama. John purchased land in Chambers County, Alabama in 1841 in section 12, Township 20, and Range 28 East of the Tallapoosa Land District. He moved to this area about 1843. He and his family were livng there in 1850 when the Federal Census was taken and later in 1855 when the state census was taken. By 1856 he had moved his large family to an area in eastern Tallapoosa County known as Church Hill. When war came in 1861 his two eldest sons, Henry and Allen Simmons, enlisted with the 47th Alabama Infantry in Company B. Both sons were lost in the Gettysburg campaign in 1863. Henry was killed in action at Gettysburg and the other son, Allen G. was captured and died in POW camp at Ft.Delaware. Allen is buried in New Jersey. John's younger son, Tillman S. Simmons, enlisted in the 2nd Alabama Reserve Regiment later designated the 63rd Alabama Infantry and fought at Mobile,Spanish Fort, and Blakely. John W. at age 48 enlisted as a private in Company A of the 3rd Alabama Reserve Infantry Regiment at Camp Watts near Notasulga, Alabama on the 1st of April 1864. He served until the 4th of April 1865. He survived the war and remained in the area of Tallapoosa,Chambers, and Lee Counties of Alabama until his death April 18th 1902. He is buried at Roxana Methodist Church Cemetery in Lee County, Alabama. His wife Lorena was born August 20th 1820 in Georgia and died January 12th 1886. She is also buried at Roxana Cemetery in Lee County, Alabama. Children included the following: 1. Margarette M. born September 13th 1838. She died July 18th 1907 2. Henry D. born about 1839 and died July 3rd 1863 married W.A. Finch September 29th 1861 3. Jackson born about 1841. He died before 1855 4. Allen G. born about 1842 and died October 9th 1863 5. Martha J. born February 14th 1842. She married Henry C. Dillard Feb 26th 1866. She died August 6th 1928 6. Mary F. born February 14th 1842. She died March 16th 1928 7. Tillman S. born May 1845 and died December 7th 1904. He married Narcissa Brewer June 3rd 1866 8. Thomas J. born August 1846 and died about 1925,married Margaret Hays November 17th 1868 9. Zeph T. born November 20th 1847 and died December 25th 1857 10. Sara A. born January 25th 1849. She died Jan 5th 1895 11. Joseph W. born April 7th 1849 and died Sept 25th 1925. He married Malissa Davidson January 8th 1874 12. Elizabeth Antionett born July 3rd 1850 and died December 6th 1912. She married William Dawson Cosby December 17th 1874 13. Andrew Robert born December 1852 and died August 22nd 1934. He married Ella Laney November 14th 1882 14. James B. born August 26th 1854 and died April 1st 1931. He married Mary Loucilla Kimbrough August 11th 1878 Additional Comments: John W. and Lorena Welden Simmons were my Great-Great-Great grandparents. There son, Tillman S. Simmons was my Great-Great grandfather. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/tallapoosa/bios/simmons1093gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb