Clinton County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Simmons II, Joshua 
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Cemetery:           North Eagle Cemetery
Name:               Joshua Simmons II

Date Of Photograph: November 1, 2008
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Joshua Simmons II - August 3, 1764 - January 28, 1840

Joshua Simmons II, Revolutionary war veteran, is buried in this Cemetery. He 
was born on a Massachusetts farm in the early 1760's. In 1778 he volunteered to 
fight the British and served with various units in Massachusetts for about two 
years. In 1790 he married Ruth Andrews. Later the family migrated to western 
New York. His wife died in 1806 leaving Joshua to raise their eight children. 
In the 1830's his younger son David settled in this ares. Joshua joined him and 
at his death in 1840 was buried here on his son's land.

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