Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Thomas Simco

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Thomas Simco is a native of Crawford County, Ark., born in 1853, and 
is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Pope) Simco. The father was born in 
1824, located in Crawford County about 1836, and died in 1871. Mrs. 
Simco was born in Tennessee in 1828, and was the mother of nine 
children, three of whom are living and residents of this county: 
William, Albert and Thomas. Marion and Rebecca Pope, maternal 
grandparents of our subject, came to this county from Tennessee, and 
were engaged in agricultural pursuits. Thomas Simco passed his youth 
here in Crawford County, receiving but a limited education, and in 
1872 married Miss Rebecca Meadows, a native of the county, born in 
1854, and a daughter of Samuel and Martha (Pope) Meadows. Mr. Meadows 
was born in Kentucky in 1832, and his wife in Tennessee in 1833. They 
both left their native States for Crawford County, Ark. In 1859 they 
went to Missouri, but returned to this county in 1867. Nine children 
were born to them, all of whom, save one, live in Crawford County: 
Mrs. Nancy Teague, Mrs. Rebecca Simco, John W., of Texas; Mary A., 
Sarah D., Andrew J., Martha, George L. and Ida B. Mr. Simco is a 
prosperous citizen, almost his entire property having been made by 
farming. He owns 120 acres of land, sixty-five of which are well 
improved and cultivated. Among the improvements may be mentioned three 
fine orchards. To Mr. and Mrs. Simco two children have been born, 
Sarah and William Allen. Being a Republican, Mr. Simco cast his first 
presidential vote for Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1876. He is a Mason, and 
a member of the I. O. O. F. 

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