Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

WILLIAM SIMPSON (deceased).  The most excellent philosophers are not those
who have dealt in splendid speculations, and looked down upon the ordinary
concerns of men as things beneath their notice, but those who have felt
their interest to be united with the welfare of the whole community and
bent their principal attention to things of real public utility.  Such a
man was William Simpson.  He was for more than fifty years an extensive
farmer, and was devoted to the interests of Jessamine County.  By a wise
economy and honorable industry he accumulated a large fortune in lands and
money.  Mr. Simpson was the second son of Peter Simpson, a man who served
his country bravely in the struggle for independence.  William Simpson
was born in Virginia, December 22, 1795, and died April 2, 1869.  In 1827
he was united in marriage with Miss Letitia Young, by whom he had six
children--three sons and three daughters.  He was of Scotch-Irish descent,
and came with his father to Jessamine County, Ky., when he was only three
years old.  Peter Simpson was the youngest son of John Simpson, born in the
North of Ireland about 1735.  Peter Simpson was born near Philadelphia,
Penn., and settled in the valley of Virginia; six years afterward (1798)
he immigrated to Kentucky, where he reared a large family.  He died in
1832.  He had a brother, John Simpson, who lived and died in Pennsylvania.
This John Simpson was the father of Hannah Simpson, who married Jesse R.
Grant.  John Simpson was the maternal grandfather of Gen. Grant.  Of the
children born to the late William Simpson the following are living: Mrs.
Elizabeth Beasley, Mrs. James Simpson, Mrs. Henrietta McDowell, Mrs. Martha
Bradshaw and William.  Miss Martha Simpson was first married in 1853, and
had two children: Mary (now the wife of Rudolph Wieser, contractor of
Fayette County) and Samuel Lusk, who was born in 1863 and died in 1873,
just after graduating from the Lexington College of Arts.  In 1863 Martha
was married to J. C. Bradshaw, she is an intelligent lady; has a pretty
residence in Nicholasville and also owns 250 acres of farming land.

Simpson Young Grant Beasley McDowell Bradshaw Wieser
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Fayette-KY Philadelphia-Philadelphia-PA VA Ireland

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