_______________ _Benjamin Wilkes SIMMONS _| | |_______________ _Williamson SIMMONS _| | | _William HOOD _+ | |_Martha HOOD _____________| | |_Martha _______ | |--Joel A. SIMMONS | | _______________ | __________________________| | | |_______________ |_Delilah WALLACE ____| | _______________ |__________________________| |_______________
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Sources:
1850, 1860, 1880, 1900 US Federal Census
Weston Twp, Platte, MO
1850: Series: M432 Roll: 410 Page: 316
(Living with parents and siblings.)
1860: Series: M653 Roll: 640 Page: 733
(Married to Martha J. Stultz.)
1880: Roll: T9_710; Page: 40D; Image: 0093.
1900: Series: T623 Roll: 882 Page: 172
"1890 Tax Rolls of Platte Co., MO"
Shirley I. Kimsey, 2002
pg. 68: "Joel Simmons, Sect. W.-1.2-99 range 10"
"Index of KS Census of 1855 & 1865"
Rita Benge Spindler
Leavenworth County Genealogical Society, 1996
(JW Simmon's obit claims he was born in Kickapoo in 1860 and moved to
MO in 1863; this census a Joel Simmons in Kickapoo in 1865; I can't find
Joel in Platte Co. in 1870 Federal census - was he in Leavenworth Co.?)
Obit from the "Weston Chronicle"
Friday, 05 Jun 1903
Obit from the "Platte County Argus"
11 Jun 1903
"Cemetery Records of Platte Co, MO"
Platte County Historical Society
Section VI, p. 67
"Laurel Hill Cemetery Survey"
Platte County Historical Society
Stone number 1084A
"Graceland and Laurel Hill Cemeteries, Weston, MO"
Shirley I. Kimsey
Platte City, MO, 1999.