Descendant Jean Roberts, who is a very well published researcher, wrote the following in regards to Richard Simmons and wife, Nancy Ann Tyler Simmons.
"Place of residence was the Barnwell County, Orangeburg District of South Carolina and Pike County, Mississippi on Bala Chitto Creek (Indian name spelled "Bala Chita). They built a home about one mile north of the present site of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, near where the Magnolia Road leads north from the Osyka-Progress Road. The old Iley Varnado home stands (1959) about 200 yards west of where we think the Richard Simmons home was located. He is buried near Fort Claiborne where he died fighting the Indians. She is buried 200 yards east of the Iley Varnado home, Pike County, Mississippi. She was left a widow with ten children in the wilderness of the Mississippi Territory when Richard was sickened and died at Fort Claiborne during the War of 1812. He entered the Mississippi militia on April 10, 1814, as a private in the Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel George H. Nixon and in Captain William Spencer's Company. Richard was a farmer. His parents' names were John and Rebecca Simmons."
"Place of residence was the Barnwell County, Orangeburg District of South Carolina and Pike County, Mississippi on Bala Chitto Creek (Indian name spelled "Bala Chita). They built a home about one mile north of the present site of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, near where the Magnolia Road leads north from the Osyka-Progress Road. The old Iley Varnado home stands (1959) about 200 yards west of where we think the Richard Simmons home was located. He is buried near Fort Claiborne where he died fighting the Indians. She is buried 200 yards east of the Iley Varnado home, Pike County, Mississippi. She was left a widow with ten children in the wilderness of the Mississippi Territory when Richard was sickened and died at Fort Claiborne during the War of 1812. He entered the Mississippi militia on April 10, 1814, as a private in the Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel George H. Nixon and in Captain William Spencer's Company. Richard was a farmer. His parents' names were John and Rebecca Simmons."
Descendant Jean Roberts, who is a very well published researcher, wrote the following in regards to Richard Simmons and wife, Nancy Ann Tyler Simmons.
"Place of residence was the Barnwell County, Orangeburg District of South Carolina and Pike County, Mississippi on Bala Chitto Creek (Indian name spelled "Bala Chita). They built a home about one mile north of the present site of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, near where the Magnolia Road leads north from the Osyka-Progress Road. The old Iley Varnado home stands (1959) about 200 yards west of where we think the Richard Simmons home was located. He is buried near Fort Claiborne where he died fighting the Indians. She is buried 200 yards east of the Iley Varnado home, Pike County, Mississippi. She was left a widow with ten children in the wilderness of the Mississippi Territory when Richard was sickened and died at Fort Claiborne during the War of 1812. He entered the Mississippi militia on April 10, 1814, as a private in the Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel George H. Nixon and in Captain William Spencer's Company. Richard was a farmer. His parents' names were John and Rebecca Simmons."
"Place of residence was the Barnwell County, Orangeburg District of South Carolina and Pike County, Mississippi on Bala Chitto Creek (Indian name spelled "Bala Chita). They built a home about one mile north of the present site of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, near where the Magnolia Road leads north from the Osyka-Progress Road. The old Iley Varnado home stands (1959) about 200 yards west of where we think the Richard Simmons home was located. He is buried near Fort Claiborne where he died fighting the Indians. She is buried 200 yards east of the Iley Varnado home, Pike County, Mississippi. She was left a widow with ten children in the wilderness of the Mississippi Territory when Richard was sickened and died at Fort Claiborne during the War of 1812. He entered the Mississippi militia on April 10, 1814, as a private in the Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel George H. Nixon and in Captain William Spencer's Company. Richard was a farmer. His parents' names were John and Rebecca Simmons."
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