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Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Simmons II

28 Feb 1869 – 24 Apr 1950

Birth	28 Feb 1869
Death	24 Apr 1950
Cemetery	Childress Cemetery Childress , Childress County , Texas , USA
Added by	Bruce D White on 09 May 2007
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19314090

Bio

Thomas Jefferson Simmons II was born in 1869 to Thomas Jefferson Simmons I and Sophenia Josephine Holder in a wagon after being chased by Comanche Indians. He grew up in Brown and Coleman Counties of Texas. Tom owned general stores in Whon, Gasoline, Odell and Tell, Texas. In the early 1920's, he sold his stores and bought a farm about 5 miles south of Tell, in Childress County. The twin disasters of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's caused the farm to fail and he moved into Childress, where he retired. Tom Simmons was married three times. He had an adopted daughter, Lela Carlisle, daughter of his first wife Lenora Ross. Lenora died in 1907 in Childress, TX. He next married Alice Diggs of Childress. Tom and Alice had two children, only the daughter Doolie survived. Alice died in childbirth of their second child, when the doctor was drunk and caused her to bleed out. Tom then married Mamie Mae Hardin and they were married for the rest of his life. Tom and Mamie had six children, four of who lived to adulthood. Tom loved his children passionately. He was a firm but fair man, who was liked by all who knew him. He was married three times and had nine children, one which was adopted. Three of his children died as infants.

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Family

Parents

• Pvt Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Simmons I 1840–1893 FaG
• Sophenia Josephine Holder Simmons 1848–1917 FaG

Spouse

• Leonora Frances "Fannie" Ross Simmons 1864–1907 FaG
• Alice Lura Diggs Simmons 1888–1916 FaG
• Mamie Mae "Granny" Hardin Simmons 1898–1986

Siblings

• Martha Simmons 1867–1869 FaG
• Bay Alexander Simmons 1870–1951 FaG
• George Washington Simmons 1872–1944 FaG
• John Henry Simmons 1881–1928 FaG
• Jesse James "Jim" Simmons 1884–1944 FaG

Children

• Lela Elizabeth Carlisle Poteet 1882–1961 FaG
• Sophenia Josephine "Doolie" Simmons Brooks 1910–1993 FaG
• Thomas Bay Simmons 1916–1916 FaG
• Thomas Jefferson Simmons III 1917–1922
• John Daniel Simmons 1919–1999
• Mary Oleta "Nanny" Simmons White 1921–2010
• Franklyn Thomas "Buddy" Simmons 1923–2015
• Elizabeth Luticia "Liz" Simmons Wallace 1925–2004
• Bertie Mae Simmons 1927–1929

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