Contributor: Sterling Parker
Email: grandyandpops@cs.com
HUSBAND: JOHN EZEKIAL SIMPSON
Born: 15 April 1839
Place: Georgia
Died: 5 Feb. 1903
Place: Bosque Co., TX
Buried: Oak Grove Cemetery
Father: Eleazer Simpson
Mother: Martha Jane Phillips
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Wife’s Name: MARY JANE DYKES
Born: 5 January 1839
Place:
Died: 21 June 1910
Place: Bosque Co., TX.
Buried: Oak Grove Cemetery
Place: Walnut Springs, TX
Father:
Mother:
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Married: abt. 1860
Place: prob. Ala.
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CHILDREN
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1. Name: JOHN E. SIMPSON
Born: abt 1860
Place: Alabama
Married (date & place):
Spouse: Ersula (unknown last name)
Died: 1934
Place: Iredell, Bosque Co., TX
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2. Name: LAURA M. SIMPSON
Born: abt. 1865
Place: Alabama
Married (date & place): Unknown
Spouse: J.H. Denman
Died: Unknown
Place: Unknown
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3. Name: FLORENCE E. SIMPSON
Born: 9 July 1868
Place: Alabama
Married (date & place): 16 Sept. 1882, Waco, TX.
Spouse: Charles David Whiteley
Died: 21, Nov. 1943
Place: Oklahoma City, Ok. buried Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, TX
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4. Name: JAMES H. SIMPSON
Born: abt. 1870
Place: Alabama
Married (date & place):
Spouse: Lin A. (unknown last name)
Died: unknown
Place: unknown
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5. Name: JOSHUA M. SIMPSON
Born: 26, June, 1871
Place: Alabama
Married (date & place):
Spouse: Jessie F. (unknown last name)
Died: 1939
Place: Amarillo, TX.
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6. Name: ALSOPFINE SIMPSON
Born: 1876
Place: Georgia
Married (date & place):
Spouse: James M. Williford
Died:
Place:
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7. Name: JOSPHINE SIMPSON
Born: 1878
Place: Georgia
Married (date & place):
Spouse: Matt H. Francis
Died:
Place:
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8. Name: JEPTHA W. SIMPSON
Born: 1880
Place: Texas
Married (date & place):
Spouse:
Died:
Place:
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9. Name: HENRY GENT SIMPSON
Born: 1882
Place: Bell Co., Texas
Married (date & place):
Spouse: Edna Pearl Youree
Died: 27, March, 1942
Place: Bosque Co., TX. buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Walnut Springs, TX
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NOTES: Henry Gent Simpson and Edna Pearl Youree are my grandparents, John
Ezekial Simpson and Mary Jane Dykes are my great Grandparents. My family has
lived around Bosque Co for near one hundred years My mother Mary Jane
Simpson Kellogg and my sister Mary Janis Parker Barton reside in Glen Rose
today.
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SOURCES: My mother Mary Jane Simpson Kellogg, she is near 85 if anyone would
like to interview her on the history of Walnut Springs, Texas. She was born
there in 1915 and remembers practically everyone who lived there until around
1960.