Tallapoosa-Lee County AlArchives Biographies.....Simmons, John  April 2, 1869 - May 25, 1931
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John Simmons http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007486 June 12, 2019, 6:46 am

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Author: John Eady Simmons Jr.

John Henry was born in 1869 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.  He was the son 
of Tillman S. Simmons and Narcissa Jane Brewer. He grew to manhood in 
Tallapoosa County. His father was a Confederate veteran. John was living 
with his parents at Jones Crossroads in 1870. His family lived in Rome 
Precinct of Tallapoosa in 1880. 
John had two brothers and two sisters. He grew up on the farm. He was 
married to Emma Pearl Saxon in Troup County, Georgia in 1890. John and Emma 
Pearl lived in the Rome area of Tallapoosa County. They started a family and 
by 1900 they had three children. John's father in law, William James Saxon, 
died in 1894. After his death, John worked on and managed his mother in 
law's farm.

   John's father became very ill and died in 1904. In 1917 John lost his 
mother. His parents were both buried at Philadelphia Church Cemetery near 
Smith Station in Lee County, Alabama. John and Emma Pearl had nine children. 

John passed away in 1931 in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama. He was buried at 
Waverly cemetery in Lee County,Alabama. 




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