Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Simons, Joshua, 1892 

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JOSHUA SIMONS

   Joshua Simons died.  He had been a resident of the "Panhandle" of the 
county.  He had been a member of the school board for a great many years. 
The plantation on which he lived, from the best data available, having been 
in the family since colonial days.  His ancestors at one time were members 
of the Quakers and one John Simons was fined for his faith, later they 
became Baptists, and the oldest church of that denomination in the county 
was erected near the old homestead, his mother for a great many years 
keeping the old church bible at her home, and taking it to the church each 
time for the services.


Joshua SIMONS, 
d. 21 Jul 1892, age 77, 
interred in Simons Cemetery*, Simons Dr., near Western Branch Baptist Church, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-59), an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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