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Mary Ann Simmons Williams
29 Feb 1840 – 30 Mar 1925
| Birth | 29 Feb 1840 |
| Death | 30 Mar 1925 |
| Cemetery | Fitzhugh Cemetery Lucas , Collin County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | geneladyMO on 01 Jan 2010 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10708875 |
Bio
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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Family
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Siblings
- John Simmons 1831–1908
- James J. Simmons 1833–1914
- George Washington Simmons 1837–1920
- Sarah "Sallie" Simmons Graham 1842–1903
- Martha Simmons Brooks 1844–1937
- Elizabeth Jane "Bettie" Simmons Cook 1845–1917
- Susan M. Simmons Kerby 1848–1871
- Eady Frances "Fannie" Simmons Bowman 1852–1879
Children
- Ann Eliza Williams Graham 1859–1899
- Jasper Newton "Bud" Williams 1860–1946
- George Washington Williams 1863–1910
- Charles Lemuel "Charlie" Williams 1865–1954
- James Monroe Williams 1867–1929
- William Thomas Williams 1869–1883
- John Franklin Williams 1871–1922
- Henry Hudson Williams 1873–1933
- Mary Ellen Williams Hardaway 1874–1943
- Virginia Frances "Fannie" Williams Hardaway 1877–1970
- Walter Raleigh Williams 1879–1949
- Alice Beatrice Williams Smith 1881–1963
- Sally Odessa Williams Brooks 1882–1965
- Martha Elizabeth "Bettie" Williams West 1885–1973
- Horace Eldridge Williams 1888–1890
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