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THE SIMPSON FAMILY OF INDEPENDENCE DISTRICT
	Narrator:  George Simpson, 90

     George Simpson, the narrator, was born near Duart Canada, in Ontario Dec 
18 1845.  He came with his mother and brothers and sisters to Mich. during the 
Civil War.  The father had already died in Canada 1853.  From Mich. the family 
came down to Caldwell co. 1868 and the mother Mrs. Mary Simpson (1808-1877) 
bought a farm south of Hamilton one mile west of the present Geo. Simpson 
home.  That first farm is now incorporated into another farm.  There were 
several Simpson children - Thomas, Henry, George, John, Mrs. Tingey, and Mary 
Ann who married John Tait of Taitsville.  One sister married and stayed in 
Canada.  Mrs. Tingey is remembered by many Hamilton people, for she and her 
husband lived several years on the 10 acre plot south of town, now the Booth 
place.  She was born 1837, and married 1870 to James Tingey.
     Henry Simpson lived at home with his mother till his marriage to Mrs. 
Ackley (mother of Dr. Ackley and a sister of Harve Farabee).  Henry had no 
children and left his property to May Simpson Souders who lived with him in 
his old age.  George, after coming here from Mich. had been working for his 
brother-in-law John Tait in the Tait mill (owned by John and his brother 
James), a flour and lumber mill.  At that time George was not married.  When 
Henry left home, George came home to take care of his mother and he did not 
marry till after her death.  He married Charlotte Hardman, one of the neighbor 
girls, and the present Simpson farm home is the old Hardman farm which George 
bought out of the estate.  
     While working at the Tait mill, it was his job to carry the mill money, 
for they had few banks then.  So the carrier took it to an express office and 
the money actually was sent on the train to its destination.  On one such 
trip, in the fall of 1873, he was in Hamilton down at the depot where the 
express office was.  The train came in from the east and a man getting off, 
asked him where he could spend the night.  It was Dan Booth, later a Hamilton 
farmer and banker for almost 50 years on his first trip to Missouri.  That 
started a good friendship that lasted for a lifetime.
     Mr. George Simpson as a young man, liked good times such as he was used 
to in Canada.  He and his group of friends used to engage a front room of a 
little red house on the present Walter Whitt farm and hold a dance, with 
square dances and schottische.  Some of the neighborhood thought it very 
wicked to go to a dance, or even a play party, while some thought play parties 
were all right but dances were wrong.  "Just from Kidder, skip to ma lou" was 
one of the play party songs for skipping around.
     One of their close neighbors was Harve Farabee who lived three quarters 
west of the present Simpson home.  Mr. Farabee later came to town to live in 
the present Stella Farabee home.
     Interview  1935.


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