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Joseph Allen SIMMONS, farmer and stock raiser, was born January 6, 1836, in Trimble County, Ky., and is a son of Samuel and Amanda (WILLIAMS) SIMMONS, both of whom were born and lived and died in Kentucky. The grandfather's name was Samuel, and he was a son of William SIMMONS, who was a Revolutionary soldier. The grandfather lived to be 107 years of age, and died about 1857. Joseph Allen Simmons removed from Kentucky to Indiana in 1861, thence to Illinois in 1863, and in 1868 came to Lawrence County, Mo. He was married February 1, 1872, to Mrs. Janetta MANN (nee MOODY), widow of O. P. MANN, by whom she had five children. Mr. Mann was a soldier in the United States army, and died July 22, 1862. She was born in Kentucky June 5, 1828. Mr. Simmons is the father of one child, Mary Ann, who is married to Perry WILLIAMS, and resides in Henry County, Ky.
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