No headstone has been found.
From Simms Family Research, privately published:
"Francis Simms (1760-1844), the first child and son of John Simms, Sr. and Elizabeth Wathen Simms, was born on the family plantation St. George's in Charles County, Maryland.
"Washington County, Kentucky court records place Francis in the Rolling Fork Station in 1788. This supports the tradition that Francis had preceded, by two years, the arrival of his father to Kentucky, having journeyed from Maryland with probably the fourth league of Catholic families that settled in the Rolling Fork Settlement near the present town of Calvary, Marion County. This group was led by Robert Abell, himself a man of considerable note in the early annals of the State.
"By bond negotiated in Washington County on November 7, 1810, Francis - at the age of fifty - married Alethaire "Alethea" Spalding, the seventeen year old daughter and eleventh child, of Benedict J. Spalding II and his wife Alethaire "Alethea" Abell. Benedict Spalding was the head of the colony of Maryland emigrants who came to the Settlement on the Rolling Fork in 1790.
"Francis and Alethea Spalding Simms had twelve children - four had early deaths - and it is likely that they lived in the section of Rolling Fork Settlement near Calvary until shortly after December, 1815, when Francis was named in his father's will to manage the 100 acre parental estate on Pleasant Run. Following his mother Elizabeth's death (date unknown), Francis inherited the whole estate and later bought adjoining land from John Sandusky and J. F. Smith. When Francis died in 1844 he was living on the extension of his father's land that totaled about 400 acres.
"Following Alethea's death during the cholera epidemic of 1833 - which also caused the death of a daughter - Francis married Elizabeth "Eliza" Martin (an orphan) on February 10, 1834. They continued to live on the 400 acre estate until Francis' death in January, 1844. His will, dated January 16, 1844, was probated on January 22, 1844 in Washington County and Eliza was willed one third of Francis' assets, which also included one third of the land. The remaining two thirds of the land was divided among sons Joseph G., Francis H., Benedict J. and Thomas W. Simms and this constituted their equal share of their father's estate.
"Tradition has it that Francis and his first wife, Alethea Spalding Simms, were buried in the St. Rose Cemetery and upon the death of Eliza, on January 27, 1852, she too was laid to rest there. As there are no headstones to be found, nor cemetery records that place any of them at St. Rose, tradition also has it that Francis and Alethea's burial plots were covered over when a new addition to St. Rose Church was begun about 1852. While this certainly is a possibility, it is unlikely that the plot of Eliza suffered the same fate since she died the same year that the new addition was started (in 1852). A theory as to why no record of Alethea and Francis exist at St. Rose is that upon the death of Alethea in 1833, and as a member of the prominent Spalding family of the Rolling Fork Settlement, she was buried in the church cemetery of that Settlement; and that her husband Francis was also taken there when he died in 1844. (While many of the markers in the old Calvary cemetery are unreadable, and others are broken or missing, there seems to be no evidence to support this theory. This cemetery is located one quarter mile in back of the present Holy Name of Mary Church in Calvary, Marion County. Reverend Charles Nerinckx erected the first church here in 1805.)"
The children of Francis and Alethaire Spalding Simms were:
Benedict J. Simms, d 1813
Joseph G. Simms, 1814-1850
Elizabeth M.Simms, 1816-1832
John "Cutter" Simms, 1818-1901
Anna Caroline Simms, 1820-1891
Martha Ann Simms, 1822-1865
Francis Simms, 1824-1853
Benedict Joseph Simms II, 1825-1881
Richard P. Simms, 1827-
Catherine Lucetta Simms, 1829-1906
Thomas William Simms, 1830-1923
From Simms Family Research, privately published:
"Francis Simms (1760-1844), the first child and son of John Simms, Sr. and Elizabeth Wathen Simms, was born on the family plantation St. George's in Charles County, Maryland.
"Washington County, Kentucky court records place Francis in the Rolling Fork Station in 1788. This supports the tradition that Francis had preceded, by two years, the arrival of his father to Kentucky, having journeyed from Maryland with probably the fourth league of Catholic families that settled in the Rolling Fork Settlement near the present town of Calvary, Marion County. This group was led by Robert Abell, himself a man of considerable note in the early annals of the State.
"By bond negotiated in Washington County on November 7, 1810, Francis - at the age of fifty - married Alethaire "Alethea" Spalding, the seventeen year old daughter and eleventh child, of Benedict J. Spalding II and his wife Alethaire "Alethea" Abell. Benedict Spalding was the head of the colony of Maryland emigrants who came to the Settlement on the Rolling Fork in 1790.
"Francis and Alethea Spalding Simms had twelve children - four had early deaths - and it is likely that they lived in the section of Rolling Fork Settlement near Calvary until shortly after December, 1815, when Francis was named in his father's will to manage the 100 acre parental estate on Pleasant Run. Following his mother Elizabeth's death (date unknown), Francis inherited the whole estate and later bought adjoining land from John Sandusky and J. F. Smith. When Francis died in 1844 he was living on the extension of his father's land that totaled about 400 acres.
"Following Alethea's death during the cholera epidemic of 1833 - which also caused the death of a daughter - Francis married Elizabeth "Eliza" Martin (an orphan) on February 10, 1834. They continued to live on the 400 acre estate until Francis' death in January, 1844. His will, dated January 16, 1844, was probated on January 22, 1844 in Washington County and Eliza was willed one third of Francis' assets, which also included one third of the land. The remaining two thirds of the land was divided among sons Joseph G., Francis H., Benedict J. and Thomas W. Simms and this constituted their equal share of their father's estate.
"Tradition has it that Francis and his first wife, Alethea Spalding Simms, were buried in the St. Rose Cemetery and upon the death of Eliza, on January 27, 1852, she too was laid to rest there. As there are no headstones to be found, nor cemetery records that place any of them at St. Rose, tradition also has it that Francis and Alethea's burial plots were covered over when a new addition to St. Rose Church was begun about 1852. While this certainly is a possibility, it is unlikely that the plot of Eliza suffered the same fate since she died the same year that the new addition was started (in 1852). A theory as to why no record of Alethea and Francis exist at St. Rose is that upon the death of Alethea in 1833, and as a member of the prominent Spalding family of the Rolling Fork Settlement, she was buried in the church cemetery of that Settlement; and that her husband Francis was also taken there when he died in 1844. (While many of the markers in the old Calvary cemetery are unreadable, and others are broken or missing, there seems to be no evidence to support this theory. This cemetery is located one quarter mile in back of the present Holy Name of Mary Church in Calvary, Marion County. Reverend Charles Nerinckx erected the first church here in 1805.)"
The children of Francis and Alethaire Spalding Simms were:
Benedict J. Simms, d 1813
Joseph G. Simms, 1814-1850
Elizabeth M.Simms, 1816-1832
John "Cutter" Simms, 1818-1901
Anna Caroline Simms, 1820-1891
Martha Ann Simms, 1822-1865
Francis Simms, 1824-1853
Benedict Joseph Simms II, 1825-1881
Richard P. Simms, 1827-
Catherine Lucetta Simms, 1829-1906
Thomas William Simms, 1830-1923
No headstone has been found.
From Simms Family Research, privately published:
"Francis Simms (1760-1844), the first child and son of John Simms, Sr. and Elizabeth Wathen Simms, was born on the family plantation St. George's in Charles County, Maryland.
"Washington County, Kentucky court records place Francis in the Rolling Fork Station in 1788. This supports the tradition that Francis had preceded, by two years, the arrival of his father to Kentucky, having journeyed from Maryland with probably the fourth league of Catholic families that settled in the Rolling Fork Settlement near the present town of Calvary, Marion County. This group was led by Robert Abell, himself a man of considerable note in the early annals of the State.
"By bond negotiated in Washington County on November 7, 1810, Francis - at the age of fifty - married Alethaire "Alethea" Spalding, the seventeen year old daughter and eleventh child, of Benedict J. Spalding II and his wife Alethaire "Alethea" Abell. Benedict Spalding was the head of the colony of Maryland emigrants who came to the Settlement on the Rolling Fork in 1790.
"Francis and Alethea Spalding Simms had twelve children - four had early deaths - and it is likely that they lived in the section of Rolling Fork Settlement near Calvary until shortly after December, 1815, when Francis was named in his father's will to manage the 100 acre parental estate on Pleasant Run. Following his mother Elizabeth's death (date unknown), Francis inherited the whole estate and later bought adjoining land from John Sandusky and J. F. Smith. When Francis died in 1844 he was living on the extension of his father's land that totaled about 400 acres.
"Following Alethea's death during the cholera epidemic of 1833 - which also caused the death of a daughter - Francis married Elizabeth "Eliza" Martin (an orphan) on February 10, 1834. They continued to live on the 400 acre estate until Francis' death in January, 1844. His will, dated January 16, 1844, was probated on January 22, 1844 in Washington County and Eliza was willed one third of Francis' assets, which also included one third of the land. The remaining two thirds of the land was divided among sons Joseph G., Francis H., Benedict J. and Thomas W. Simms and this constituted their equal share of their father's estate.
"Tradition has it that Francis and his first wife, Alethea Spalding Simms, were buried in the St. Rose Cemetery and upon the death of Eliza, on January 27, 1852, she too was laid to rest there. As there are no headstones to be found, nor cemetery records that place any of them at St. Rose, tradition also has it that Francis and Alethea's burial plots were covered over when a new addition to St. Rose Church was begun about 1852. While this certainly is a possibility, it is unlikely that the plot of Eliza suffered the same fate since she died the same year that the new addition was started (in 1852). A theory as to why no record of Alethea and Francis exist at St. Rose is that upon the death of Alethea in 1833, and as a member of the prominent Spalding family of the Rolling Fork Settlement, she was buried in the church cemetery of that Settlement; and that her husband Francis was also taken there when he died in 1844. (While many of the markers in the old Calvary cemetery are unreadable, and others are broken or missing, there seems to be no evidence to support this theory. This cemetery is located one quarter mile in back of the present Holy Name of Mary Church in Calvary, Marion County. Reverend Charles Nerinckx erected the first church here in 1805.)"
The children of Francis and Alethaire Spalding Simms were:
Benedict J. Simms, d 1813
Joseph G. Simms, 1814-1850
Elizabeth M.Simms, 1816-1832
John "Cutter" Simms, 1818-1901
Anna Caroline Simms, 1820-1891
Martha Ann Simms, 1822-1865
Francis Simms, 1824-1853
Benedict Joseph Simms II, 1825-1881
Richard P. Simms, 1827-
Catherine Lucetta Simms, 1829-1906
Thomas William Simms, 1830-1923
From Simms Family Research, privately published:
"Francis Simms (1760-1844), the first child and son of John Simms, Sr. and Elizabeth Wathen Simms, was born on the family plantation St. George's in Charles County, Maryland.
"Washington County, Kentucky court records place Francis in the Rolling Fork Station in 1788. This supports the tradition that Francis had preceded, by two years, the arrival of his father to Kentucky, having journeyed from Maryland with probably the fourth league of Catholic families that settled in the Rolling Fork Settlement near the present town of Calvary, Marion County. This group was led by Robert Abell, himself a man of considerable note in the early annals of the State.
"By bond negotiated in Washington County on November 7, 1810, Francis - at the age of fifty - married Alethaire "Alethea" Spalding, the seventeen year old daughter and eleventh child, of Benedict J. Spalding II and his wife Alethaire "Alethea" Abell. Benedict Spalding was the head of the colony of Maryland emigrants who came to the Settlement on the Rolling Fork in 1790.
"Francis and Alethea Spalding Simms had twelve children - four had early deaths - and it is likely that they lived in the section of Rolling Fork Settlement near Calvary until shortly after December, 1815, when Francis was named in his father's will to manage the 100 acre parental estate on Pleasant Run. Following his mother Elizabeth's death (date unknown), Francis inherited the whole estate and later bought adjoining land from John Sandusky and J. F. Smith. When Francis died in 1844 he was living on the extension of his father's land that totaled about 400 acres.
"Following Alethea's death during the cholera epidemic of 1833 - which also caused the death of a daughter - Francis married Elizabeth "Eliza" Martin (an orphan) on February 10, 1834. They continued to live on the 400 acre estate until Francis' death in January, 1844. His will, dated January 16, 1844, was probated on January 22, 1844 in Washington County and Eliza was willed one third of Francis' assets, which also included one third of the land. The remaining two thirds of the land was divided among sons Joseph G., Francis H., Benedict J. and Thomas W. Simms and this constituted their equal share of their father's estate.
"Tradition has it that Francis and his first wife, Alethea Spalding Simms, were buried in the St. Rose Cemetery and upon the death of Eliza, on January 27, 1852, she too was laid to rest there. As there are no headstones to be found, nor cemetery records that place any of them at St. Rose, tradition also has it that Francis and Alethea's burial plots were covered over when a new addition to St. Rose Church was begun about 1852. While this certainly is a possibility, it is unlikely that the plot of Eliza suffered the same fate since she died the same year that the new addition was started (in 1852). A theory as to why no record of Alethea and Francis exist at St. Rose is that upon the death of Alethea in 1833, and as a member of the prominent Spalding family of the Rolling Fork Settlement, she was buried in the church cemetery of that Settlement; and that her husband Francis was also taken there when he died in 1844. (While many of the markers in the old Calvary cemetery are unreadable, and others are broken or missing, there seems to be no evidence to support this theory. This cemetery is located one quarter mile in back of the present Holy Name of Mary Church in Calvary, Marion County. Reverend Charles Nerinckx erected the first church here in 1805.)"
The children of Francis and Alethaire Spalding Simms were:
Benedict J. Simms, d 1813
Joseph G. Simms, 1814-1850
Elizabeth M.Simms, 1816-1832
John "Cutter" Simms, 1818-1901
Anna Caroline Simms, 1820-1891
Martha Ann Simms, 1822-1865
Francis Simms, 1824-1853
Benedict Joseph Simms II, 1825-1881
Richard P. Simms, 1827-
Catherine Lucetta Simms, 1829-1906
Thomas William Simms, 1830-1923
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