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Mary Ann <I>Simmons</I> Williams

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Mary Ann Simmons Williams

Birth
Attala County, Mississippi, USA
Death
30 Mar 1925 (aged 85)
Parker, Collin County, Texas, USA
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Lucas, Collin County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Mary Ann Simmons married Thomas H. Williams on 28 April 1858 in New Salem, Rusk County, Texas. She was the mother of 15 children.

Her parents moved to Texas with her mother Eady/Edy Sparks Simmons' father, William Sparks (1781-1848), a Revolutionary War soldier, in 1846. She married Rev. James H. Simmons Sr. on 12 January 1828 in Lawrence County, Mississippi.

The family lived in Nacogdoches, Texas, and moved near New Salem in Rusk County, Texas before the 1850 US Census. By 1859, they moved to near Forest Grove, Collin County, Texas. James Simmons was the first minister of the Old Crchard Gap Primitive Baptist Church.

Mrs. J.S. Hardaway, a relative wrote: "The Civil was was brewing in 1860 when James and Edith with their daughters and son George, moved to Collin Co., TX. Their sons and several sons-in-law fought for the Confederacy. Times were bad. Rustlers stole their horses and drove off their cattle; the slaves ran away and there was no one to tend the crops. The Simmons' daughters took their small children to live with their parents. James and a few other old men did what they could to help the sick and those without food. He made 'pine coffins for the dead, preached their funerals and helped to bury them."
Mary Ann Simmons married Thomas H. Williams on 28 April 1858 in New Salem, Rusk County, Texas. She was the mother of 15 children.

Her parents moved to Texas with her mother Eady/Edy Sparks Simmons' father, William Sparks (1781-1848), a Revolutionary War soldier, in 1846. She married Rev. James H. Simmons Sr. on 12 January 1828 in Lawrence County, Mississippi.

The family lived in Nacogdoches, Texas, and moved near New Salem in Rusk County, Texas before the 1850 US Census. By 1859, they moved to near Forest Grove, Collin County, Texas. James Simmons was the first minister of the Old Crchard Gap Primitive Baptist Church.

Mrs. J.S. Hardaway, a relative wrote: "The Civil was was brewing in 1860 when James and Edith with their daughters and son George, moved to Collin Co., TX. Their sons and several sons-in-law fought for the Confederacy. Times were bad. Rustlers stole their horses and drove off their cattle; the slaves ran away and there was no one to tend the crops. The Simmons' daughters took their small children to live with their parents. James and a few other old men did what they could to help the sick and those without food. He made 'pine coffins for the dead, preached their funerals and helped to bury them."

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Mary A. Williams
Born Feb 29, 1840
Died Mar 30, 1925

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  • Maintained by: geneladyMO
  • Originally Created by: June
  • Added: Mar 31, 2005
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10708875/mary_ann-williams: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Ann Simmons Williams (29 Feb 1840–30 Mar 1925), Find a Grave Memorial ID 10708875, citing Fitzhugh Cemetery, Lucas, Collin County, Texas, USA; Maintained by geneladyMO (contributor 47075327).