Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Simons, John S. 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JOHN S. SIMONS, deceased, was one of the early preachers of Greene County,
Ind., where he was born, raised and educated. He was the eldest son of Samuel
and Cynthia (Price) Simons, the former being one of the early Commissioners of
Greene County. John S. Simons early experienced Christianity, and during his
ministerial labors accomplished much good. He volunteered his services for the
preservation of the Union as a private in Company D, Fourteenth Regiment Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, in May, 1861, and was mustered into service June 7 of the
same year. For valuable services rendered he was promoted Second Lieutenant,
then First Lieutenant, and finally to the Captaincy of the same company June 11,
1863. In 1861, he was engaged in the Western Virginia campaign. After this he
participated in the battles of Winchester (first fight), Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and was mortally
wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania Court House in May, 1864, his death
occurring on the 15th of May, 1864. He was in about fifty engagements, great and
small, and his Colonel said of him that he was one of the most efficient and
gallant Captains in battle he ever knew. To the marriage of John S. Simons and
Mary A., daughter of William and Louisa (Neal) Hinebrook. was born and reared
this family: Charles P., Sarah E., Samuel F., Lewis M., John N., James S., and
two that died in infancy. The mother departed this life in 1876.

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Grant Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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