Biography of A. B. Simmons - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 105

A. B. Simmons, a merchant and planter of Washington Township, was born
in Marshall County, Mississippi, May 4, 1847. His grandparents on both
sides were pioneers to Tennessee; his mother, a Miss Shewmake, and his
father Edward Simmons, were both born in that State. They were the
parents of six children; two only, Jesse, who lives in Pope County,
and the subject of this sketch, are now living. Mr. Edward Simmons was
an early pioneer to Arkansas, immigrating to Drew County, in this
State, in 1849, and died in the fall of the same year. His widow
married Mathew Haisty, and they were the parents of three children. He
was a man of considerable energy, and she was a member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Our subject received a fair common
school and business education, and at his majority began working for
wages. He was married December 27, 1874, to Miss Glass, a native of
Arkansas, and a daughter of Dudley Glass. Mr. Simmons owns 520 acres
of good land, and is quite extensively engaged in farming operations,
and in connection has a business at Solgohachia, that shows a most
satisfactory increase in trade. Socially he is a member of
Springfield Lodge, A. F. and A. M. Politically he is a conscientious
member of the Democratic party, and for four years was County
Assessor. Mrs. Simmons is a member of the Advent Church. To the union
of our subject and his estimable wife there has been born six
children, named in order of birth as follows: Charles (deceased), Ida
V., Ada D., Edward D., Jesse E. and William H. (deceased).