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Leven Simmons

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Leven Simmons

Birth
Meads, Boyd County, Kentucky, USA
Death
8 Feb 1876 (aged 63)
Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, USA
Burial
Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, USA
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cemetery record shows (SIMMONS, SAMUEL) owns adjacent plots of probable family members below. Record shows birth-death dates-locations, and identifies his parents (ELIZABETH SCOTT and LAMUEL SIMMONS)

SIMMONS, MALE BABY --b.3/13/1905 -d.3/13/1905
SIMMONS, LECTA F --b.11/11/1866 -d.12/02/1866
BABCOCK, MARY JANE --b.05/10/1854 -d.1/19/1921
SIMMONS, ALBERT --b.09/17/1866 -d.11/04/1870
SIMMONS, SARAH --b.07/07/1867 -d.07/07/1867
SIMMONS, LEVEN --b.08/01/1812 -d.02/08/1876
SIMMONS, HARRIET B --b.03/30/1821 -d.03/16/1891
GRAVES, DANIEL CLIFFORD --b.9/15/1976 -d.6/19/1978

At Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Feb. 8th, 1876, LEVEN SIMMONS died of Dropsy.

Deceased was born Aug. 1, 1812, in Meed Co., Kentucky; when a young man he moved to Illinois, when he married Harriet Bradford; embraced the Gospel in Nauvoo, June, 1843; lived on his farm, twelve miles from Nauvoo, til 1844; when he was driven thence and his crop burned by the mob; took shelter in Nauvoo and fitted up to leave with the first company, but let Orson Pratt have his team and then sold his farm worth $1,500 for $250.50 to get another and moved to Piquah in the spring of 1847; in the fall left his crop and moved into Winter Quarters; thence moved to Salt Lake, where he arrived Sept. 28th, 1852, and moved to Springville, thence to Spanish Fork, where he lived till the time of his death. He was a kind and affectionate husband and father and a faithful saint and was beloved by all who knew him. He was the father of twenty children and twenty-five grandchildren.

Deseret News
8 March 1876
cemetery record shows (SIMMONS, SAMUEL) owns adjacent plots of probable family members below. Record shows birth-death dates-locations, and identifies his parents (ELIZABETH SCOTT and LAMUEL SIMMONS)

SIMMONS, MALE BABY --b.3/13/1905 -d.3/13/1905
SIMMONS, LECTA F --b.11/11/1866 -d.12/02/1866
BABCOCK, MARY JANE --b.05/10/1854 -d.1/19/1921
SIMMONS, ALBERT --b.09/17/1866 -d.11/04/1870
SIMMONS, SARAH --b.07/07/1867 -d.07/07/1867
SIMMONS, LEVEN --b.08/01/1812 -d.02/08/1876
SIMMONS, HARRIET B --b.03/30/1821 -d.03/16/1891
GRAVES, DANIEL CLIFFORD --b.9/15/1976 -d.6/19/1978

At Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Feb. 8th, 1876, LEVEN SIMMONS died of Dropsy.

Deceased was born Aug. 1, 1812, in Meed Co., Kentucky; when a young man he moved to Illinois, when he married Harriet Bradford; embraced the Gospel in Nauvoo, June, 1843; lived on his farm, twelve miles from Nauvoo, til 1844; when he was driven thence and his crop burned by the mob; took shelter in Nauvoo and fitted up to leave with the first company, but let Orson Pratt have his team and then sold his farm worth $1,500 for $250.50 to get another and moved to Piquah in the spring of 1847; in the fall left his crop and moved into Winter Quarters; thence moved to Salt Lake, where he arrived Sept. 28th, 1852, and moved to Springville, thence to Spanish Fork, where he lived till the time of his death. He was a kind and affectionate husband and father and a faithful saint and was beloved by all who knew him. He was the father of twenty children and twenty-five grandchildren.

Deseret News
8 March 1876

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