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| Letter to Alice Nobel Waring from P. M. Robinett, Mountain Grove, Missouri, dated 23 June 1963 (copy sent to CCT by Alice Waring in file): "My brother Frank, now deceased, was an avid student of the Pickens and Simmons lines in our family. Ann Miller, daughter of Rev. Robert Miller and Jane (Pickens) Miller married Robert Simmons. Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War they moved to near what is now Franklinton, La., and their son John Simmons served with La. troops in the Battle of New Orleans. ... In the South Carolina Archives I found a receipt for forage signed by Coronet Robert Simmons and verified by Col. Robert Anderson. As you know Anderson was one of the principal subordinates of General Andrew Pickens. ..." See letter from Robert Miller to Jean Miller dated 6 Oct 1799: "I beg you will give my Compliments to Brother Andrew and tell him I am much surprised that he never wrote to inform me how he got home, as I have had no account from him since he left here. I beg he will let me know how he got home. Please to present my respects to his wife, also to Brother Simmons and his wife" 1800 Census Abbeville District SC has Robert Simmons (26-45), one male 10-16 (Robert), 2 males under 10 (William and John), one female 26-45 (Ann), one female 16-26 (Elizabeth), one female 10-16 (Jane) and one female under 10 (Rebecca). See the following letter from Robert and Anne Simmons to Jean Miller: 13 December 1801 Tennsee State Jefferson District French Broad River Thirty miles below the Warm Springs Dear Moter, We take the opertunity of wrightin to let you know that we are all well at preasent but Bekey, and she has got the ague, but we hope youar well. I wrout to you before about our jurney. I know not wheather you got it or not. Odom lefte me about Sixteen Miles before we stoped and was at me to get into helpe make a boat, but I turned him of for his past conduct on the Road and I know not what has come of him since, and am makeing a boat Myself and will have it don in three or four weke. We wold bee glad you cold come and go down with us as you will never have a beter chanc again. If you cold come by the midel of next Month, we are settled with sober people and have preaching once in too weeks. It is a prisbetarin minnistar by the name of Henderson. We have got a house free while we stay in thes parts. We wuld be glad to see you hear. I think some of the boys might come with you and fetch jinin with you or send her, as jean is very uneasey about her. We has nomor at present, but remain your Most Obedient Son & Daughter until Death. Robert & Anne Simmons Letter from Felix Hughes to Ebenezer Miller 9 Dec 1805: "Simmonds is rather depreciating, has hired out Prince this last season for 80 Dollars, and is obliged to hire Jude occasionally. His family has increased; about twelve months ago, a daughter was then born to him, whom he calls Nelly. As to Johnston, he made out pretty well this year, made a good crop of cotton & corn and if he continues to be industrious, will certainly do very well. He and Simmonds intend moving to the river Amit, where they have made a purchase. As to Wales, there is no danger of him, he will make about twice as much a year as either Simmonds or Johnston." McBee lists Robert Simmons as building improvements on 155 acres on Coles Creek in Jefferson County in 1802. In January 1805, Robert Simmons sells 155 acres on Coles Creek in Jefferson County to William Kennedy. Deed is witnessed by Felix Hughes. See letter from Felix Hughes to Ebenezer Miller, 6 May 1811: "I hear Robert Miller is doing very well on the other side of the Mississippi. Robert Simmons is gone to pieces. His Boys do very well. H. Armstrong has worked poor Simmons out of his plantation." Letter from Felix Hughes to Ebenezer Miller, 1 Feb 1813: "Robt. Simmons is now settled at a place called Boque-Chitto, makes out but poorly, his sons do pretty well for themselves and were all well the last accounts I had." Letter from Robert Miller (son of Andrew Miller) to Ebenezer Miller, 13 Nov 1815:" I cannot give you any satisfactory information respecting Uncle Simmons and family, as I have seen none of them. They live 60 or 70 Miles from Uncle Hughes." Letter from Felix Hughes to Ebenezer Miller, 6 May 1817: "Will'm. Simmons is croping with me this year. His father's family is well. My Wife paid them a visit last Jan'y. Peggy Ann Johnston lives with them. Shane Johnston's oldest Son and Daughter are married, as for Shane himself. I hear he makes out but so, so. Shane Wells and George are getting rich fast, particularly the former." Letter from Robert Miller (son of Andrew Miller) to Ebenezer Miller, 3 Mar 1818: " I have never been at Uncle Simmons. Saw William Simmons last summer, the only one of the family I have seen. They were all well the last accounts I had from them. John Simmons is married and living in Tennessee. Robert and William are both single and living with their father. Nathaniel Wells was in this place a short time since (at the time the Legislature was setting). He was Elected a member of the Senate from Pike County ." From Raulston-Russell Genealogy: According to the 1810 census records of Amite County, Robert had 2 slaves and he owned tracts of land on the Bogue Chitto River in the Mississippi Territory. Robert Simmons...served in the Dragoons under Col. Wade Hampton in S.C. [in Revolutionary War]. Simmons was too old to be in the Battle of New Orleans, but three of his sons were. Robert Miller Simmons, William and John Simmons were all in the Second Division of the Louisiana Militia which was commanded by Major General Philimon Thomas. Robert Simmons' sons in law, Major Nathaniel Thomas Wells of Mississippi Territorial Militia, and Colonel James Raulston of the Third Tennessee Militia with General William Carroll's Division were also there. The 1820 Census, p. 188 for Washington Parish, La. lists Ann Miller Simmons 58, Robert Simmons, Rebecca about 20, Eleanor C. 12, Ann, Robert M. Simmons 31, and William Winter Simmons. From Raulston-Russell Genealogy: "Robert Simmons settled two headrights in Washington Parish. The one on which he lived is about one and a half miles south of the Washington Parish Court House in Franklinton along the east side of the Bogue Chitto River. The other was on the east side of the first along Lawrence Creek. The Morris Cemetery must have been started by the Robert Simmons family. The earliest granite or marble markers date back to the 1850's. Another source says that Robert & Anne Simmons are buried in the McCain Cemetery on the banks of the Lawrence Creek, near Franklinton, La. and that a descendant, J. Leonard Raulston, who has always been thoughtful of his ancestors, placed markers at their graves. This author's [ Gonce] cousin, Kathyrn Russell Martin, visited the Morris cemetery 21 May 1985 and found what appeared to be the oldest tombstones in the cemetery. They were engraved with the names of Ann Miller Simmons 1762-1843 and Robert Simmons 1754-1850 (Lt. in Anderson's Reg. SC Militia). She said that there were many McCains buried there, so this could possibly be called the McCain Cemetery, also. Note: Heirs of Robert Simmons entered into an agreement with Robert M. Simmons dated January 13, 1844, whereby Robert M. Simmons relinquished all right, title and interest in the personal property of the estate to the other heirs who signed the agreement, and the other heirs relinquished their right in the tract of land "whereon the deceased died bounded on the west by the Bogue Chitto, north by Jesse Day, East by R. M. Simmons, South by J. M. Simmons," provided R. M. Simmons was to be responsible to the absent heirs (Elizabeth Wills [Wells], Jane Rautsen [Raulston], John Simmons, Anna Williams. signed by W. W. Simmons, Rebeca Dias, Eleanor C. Day, William Day, James R. Williams, Robert M. Simmons. Legal Records of Washington Parish, Vol. I, p. 26, comp. by E. Russ Williams. See Eula Albright letter to CCT 2/11/1980: "My great great grandmother was Anne Raulston who married Brice Byrne. She was the daughter of James Raulston and Jane Simmons. Jane was the daughter of Lt. Robert Simmons and Anne Miller, daughter of Robert Miller and Jane Miller....I would like a complete list of the children of Robert Miller and complete list of children of Lt. Robert Simmons and Anne Miller." Eula Albright letter to CCT 2/26/1980: "Just recently I sent in a suupplemental on Robert Simmons. There is one weak link but I think it will probably be o.k..... You inquired about the book I mentioned "The Raulstons" by J. Leonard Raulston. I bought the one he published in 1970, and at that time his address was J. Leonard Raulston, 405 Holly Ave., South Pittsburg TN 37380....The book is only about Raulstons. It only mentions that Jane Simmons is the daughter of Robert Simmons and doesn't name her mother...That is the weak spot. But Mr. Sharpe has been most helpful and by his book I sent proof that Robert Simmons married Anne Miller. So I hope it will stand up." Letter to CCT from Brig. Gen. P. M. Robinette, U.S.A.--Ret,(Mountain Grove, Missouri), dated 23 April 1966: "Now to answer your queries.- (1) The most complete published material on my Simmons connections may by founds in a book, The Book of Jared, by Mrs. Eleanor M. Hall, Salt Lake, Utah. My GGGF, John Simmons, married Naomi Jared to make the connection to this family. The book includes many errors but nevertheless represents a vast amount of work and constitutes a good reference. (2) Mrs. Kate Pickens Day's book, The Pickens Family, is a monumental work but includes some bad errors. For example she writes that Annie Miller daughter of Rev. Robert and Jane Pickens Miller married Robert Simmons. No further record. Then on pp. 117 , etc, she attributes their children to another man of the big family.... I cannot give you any information on who Ann's sister--Jane--or her brother Andrew -married.... John Simmons, son of Robert Simmons, and his wife Naomi (Jared )Simmons are buried here in the Old Cemetery. He was living with his father in Louisiana during the War of 1812 and enlisted in the 13th La. Militia. After the Battle of New Orleans he returned to Tennessee with his brother in law, Colonel James Raulston, commander of the 3d Tennessee Regiment of Militia, married and came west..." Gonce, Raulston and Russell Genealogy states birthdate of 1754 for Robert Simmons (note impossibility if Annie Pickens birthdate is correct and she is his mother). Gonce in cites Alice Noble Waring "Pickens Genealogy", Eula Albright DAR papers, and Mrs. Willie J. Morris DAR papers. I have used the more logical birthdate of 1763-1768 provided by Dorothy Thurman.129 Note that Scott Campbell's gedcom (Dec 2003) has Robert's father as Ebenzer Simmons and his mother as Elizabeth Jones. No source is given. | ||||||||||||||||
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