Around 1925 Simp made his last move - and it was a major one - at age 54 he, Vivian, and some of his younger children got into their wagon and journed all the way to Candler in Marion County Florida, south of Ocala, where Simp purchased a citrus grove. There he stayed, dying at age 85 in 1956 - the son of a former Confederate soldier living into the middle of the twentieth century, he lived a hard life but a relatively long one. Vivian would live on to age 93, dying in 1965.
Here are Charles Jones, Grandson of Simp and son of his youngest child Susie Jane, words on the starting of the orange trees in Citrus Grove.
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Grandpa planted that orange grove with sour stock and budded sweet oranges onto the sour root stock for hardiness. For several years now that grove has been suffering from a hard freeze that took almost every tree back to it's sour stock. Only a handful of trees bear sweet oranges.
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That original grove now will be over 75 years old.
Around 1925 Simp made his last move - and it was a major one - at age 54 he, Vivian, and some of his younger children got into their wagon and journed all the way to Candler in Marion County Florida, south of Ocala, where Simp purchased a citrus grove. There he stayed, dying at age 85 in 1956 - the son of a former Confederate soldier living into the middle of the twentieth century, he lived a hard life but a relatively long one. Vivian would live on to age 93, dying in 1965.
Here are Charles Jones, Grandson of Simp and son of his youngest child Susie Jane, words on the starting of the orange trees in Citrus Grove.
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Grandpa planted that orange grove with sour stock and budded sweet oranges onto the sour root stock for hardiness. For several years now that grove has been suffering from a hard freeze that took almost every tree back to it's sour stock. Only a handful of trees bear sweet oranges.
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That original grove now will be over 75 years old.
Family Members
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Rhoda Emiline Rose Goode
1869–1937
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Benjamin Franklin Rose
1870–1951
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William Samuel "Will" Rose
1873–1909
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Sallie Ann Rose Gibson
1874–1960
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Marques De Lafayette Rose
1875–1940
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Dora Jane Rose Davenport
1876–1955
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Nicholas Rees "Nick" Rose
1878–1958
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Matthew Bennett "Mack" Rose
1880–1949
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Martha Rebecca "Mattie" Rose
1883–1977
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Truda Belle Rose Thompson
1884–1976
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Thomas Weatherford "Uncle Tom" Rose
1885–1970
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James Bascom "Jim" Rose Sr
1887–1963
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Ella Rose Romine
1889–1986