_Benjamin Wilkes SIMMONS _
_Williamson SIMMONS _|
| |_Martha HOOD _____________+
_Joel A. SIMMONS __|
| | __________________________
| |_Delilah WALLACE ____|
| |__________________________
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|--James William SIMMONS
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| __________________________
| _James B. STULTZ ____|
| | |__________________________
|_Martha J. STULTZ _|
| _Hasten "Hastings" WELLS _+
|_Mary Ann WELLS _____|
|_Martha "Patsey" SCHOLL __+
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On Monday, 06 July 1885, on the streets of the riverside town of Weston, Missouri,
John Stultz shot his nephew, James William Simmons. For details, please see
the "Stultz-Simmons Shooting" section of this web site. This event is documented
using many regional newspapers and the Platte County, MO Circuit Court Records.
Sources:
"July 6 (1885) - ...John Stultz shoots and kills William Simmons at Weston."
(This William would have been 23, just the right age to get shot...but he didn't die!)
"Dec.19, 1888 - J.W. Simmons married Talitha Ninemeyer."
"Annals of Platte County Missouri"
W.M. Paxton
Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1897
1880 US Federal Census
Weston, Platte, MO
Roll: T9_710; Page: 40D; Image: 0093.
1900, 1910, 1930 US Federal Census
Leavenworth, Leavenworth, KS
1900: Roll: T623 486; Page: 14A
1910: Series: T624 Roll: 444 Part: 3 Page: 99A
1930: Roll: 708; Page: 9A; Image: 173.0.
Obituary of "J. W. Simmons"
Leavenworth Times, Friday, 07 Feb 1936
(This claims JW was born in Kickapoo in 1860, and then the family
returned to Weston in 1863. The 1860 census shows the family in MO,
and the 1865 Kansas census shows a Joel Simmons in Kickapoo.)
Obit in the "Weston Chronicle"
Joel A. Simmons
Friday, 05 Jun 1903
(Residence given as Leavenworth)
Obit in "Weston Chronicle"
Friday, 27 Jan 1922
Martha J. Stultz Simmons
(William's residence is given as St. Louis)
Obit in "Leavenworth Times"
Friday, 27 Jan 1922
Martha J. Stultz Simmons
(William's residence is given as Kansas City)
"Graceland and Laurel Hill Cemeteries, Weston, MO"
Shirley I. Kimsey
Platte City, MO, 1999.
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