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Conrad Simons

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Conrad Simons

Birth
Tobinsport, Perry County, Indiana, USA
Death
1 Feb 1931 (aged 79)
Burial
Tobinsport, Perry County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Married Eliza Mabel Winchel on August 22, 1872 in Perry County, Indiana
Conrad Simons was born in this county March 5, 1851, the youngest son in a family of two boys and three girls of Hiram W. and Mary (Harris) Simons. The father came to this state from Kentucky at the age of five years. When sixteen years old he was apprenticed to learn the tanner's trade, serving five years, when he came to Polk's Bottom where he engaged in his trade, continuing eight years, then moving three miles north, remaining nearly five years. He then began farming, He now owns 310 acres in the Bottom, besides 120 in Missouri. His wife died November 12, 1883. Our subject, upon reaching his majority, was married August 26, 1872, to Mable Winchel, and two children were the fruits of this union, one living named May R. After marriage he located on a tract of land owned by his father, and here he yet resides. He has bought a small amount of land. He is an industrious, progressive young man, and is a Democrate in politics.
History of Perry, County by Goodspeed, 1885
Married Eliza Mabel Winchel on August 22, 1872 in Perry County, Indiana
Conrad Simons was born in this county March 5, 1851, the youngest son in a family of two boys and three girls of Hiram W. and Mary (Harris) Simons. The father came to this state from Kentucky at the age of five years. When sixteen years old he was apprenticed to learn the tanner's trade, serving five years, when he came to Polk's Bottom where he engaged in his trade, continuing eight years, then moving three miles north, remaining nearly five years. He then began farming, He now owns 310 acres in the Bottom, besides 120 in Missouri. His wife died November 12, 1883. Our subject, upon reaching his majority, was married August 26, 1872, to Mable Winchel, and two children were the fruits of this union, one living named May R. After marriage he located on a tract of land owned by his father, and here he yet resides. He has bought a small amount of land. He is an industrious, progressive young man, and is a Democrate in politics.
History of Perry, County by Goodspeed, 1885


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