SHELBY COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  SIMES, John C.

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>From The History of Shelby County, Ohio, published by R. Sutton & Co., 
Philadelphia, 1883.
				

Page 193    Orange Township

John C. Simes

A son of John and Rebecca Walkup Simes, was born in Champaign County in
1814.  In 1844 he married Amanda A. Hendley.  By this union they have
raised a family of seven children;   their names are as follows:  William
H. , Mary A., Clarissa R., Florence S., Delphine C., George C., and Denton
J.  Mr. Simes, while he lived, had the esteem and respect of his Neighbors,
who elected him for a number of years to fill the office of treasurer of
his township.  He died February , 1878.

The O'Hendleys, or Hendleys as they are now called , were from Ireland,
came to the American colonies long before the Revolution, and married in
America a lady from Holland.   Wm. Hendley was a descendant of this couple;
he was a resident of Boston, and was one of the party who made that large
pot of tea in Boston Harbor.  He served a soldier throughout the
Revolutionary War.  We have no knowledge when or to whom he married, but he
raised a family of ten children.  John D. was the youngest of these; he was
born in Boston in 1792, married Clarissa Harrington in 1816, and raised a
family of five children. Mrs. Simes was one of these five; she was born in
Clinton County, O., in 1821, removed to Miami County in 1829, married John
C. Simes in 1844, and came to Shelby County in 1850.