Tallapoosa-Lee County AlArchives Biographies.....Simmons, Narcissa July 14, 1839 - July 22, 1917
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John Simmons http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007486 June 12, 2019, 6:57 am

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Author: John Eady Simmons Jr.

Narcissa Jane was born in 1839 in Newton County, Georgia. Her parents were 
Alfred Brewer and Mary Douglas/ Coleman. Her family moved to Henry County, 
Georgia where her brothers were born. She and her siblings and her parents 
were living in Henry County, Georgia in 1850. Her father moved the family to 
Tallapoosa County, Alabama after 1850. Her father died in 1855. His will was 
contested by several of his children from his first marriage.

Her father had been married to Nancy Jackson and had 4 children. She died in 
1836 and Alfred married second to Mary Douglas/Coleman who had been married 
to David Coleman.

Narcissa was named as a legatee in the will of her father in Tallapoosa 
County along with her mother and brothers. After her father's death Narcissa 
lived with her mother and siblings on the plantation in Tallapoosa County. 
They are found on the census in Beat 5 and Desoto Post Office of Tallapoosa 
County in 1860.

War came to the south and to Alabama in 1861. Narcissa saw two of her 
brothers enlist and go off to fight. After the war she married Tillman S. 
Simmons in 1866. Tillman was a Confederate veteran, He had served in the 
63rd Alabama Infantry. Narcissa's brother, Lucious, served with Tillman in 
the 63rd Alabama. This may be how Tillman and Narcissa were introduced. The 
Simmons family and the Brewer family lived in Tallapoosa County.
Narcissa and Tillman began their life together and started a family.
Her husband was a farmer. Life was hard for the people of Alabama after the 
war and during the Reconstruction period. Tillman had many family members 
living in the east Tallapoosa County area. Narcissa and TIllman were living 
at Jones Cross Roads in 1870. They moved the family to Rome Precinct and 
were living there in 1880. They moved to East Tallassee and were recorded on 
the 1900 census living in Reeltown Precinct.

After 1900 Narcissa moved with her husband to Phenix in Lee County, Alabama. 
Her husband became very ill and died in Phenix in 1904. He had suffered from 
Bright's disease and had a stroke. After her husband's death Narcissa filed 
for a pension as a widow of a Confederate soldier. She received the pension 
and was living with her daughter and son in law in Phenix in 1910. Narcissa 
died in 1917 and was buried with her husband at Philadelphia Church Cemetery 
near Smith Station in Lee County, Alabama.
Narcissa and Tillman had 5 children that lived to adulthood. 


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