Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886.  Barren County.

CAPT. JAMES M. SIMMONS was born November 2, 1839, in Monroe County, Ky.,
where he grew up, and in 1866 removed to his present residence in Barren
County.  October 28, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Ninth Kentucky
Volunteers, with which he served for about eighteen months; first as
private, later as sergeant, and finally as second lieutenant, which
position he held until at the petition of Company G he was transferred
to that company, of which he served as captain for nearly two years.  He
was engaged in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary
Ridge, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain and Lovejoy Station, besides a
large number of minor battles and skirmishes.  His father, Wyley J.
Simmons, was born May 5, 1806, within about one mile of the present site
of Fountain Run, Ky.  There, with the exception of three years spent in
Illinois, he afterward lived; and there he died in April, 1873.  He was
one of the prominent men of his section, and was a son of Naysa Simmons,
of North Carolina, who immigrated to Kentucky in 1805, and located on
the land where his son and grandson were afterward born.  He was of
English descent.  Wyley J. Simmons married, in April, 1830, Mary T. W.
Dossey, who was born about 1813, and bore him the following children:
Telitha A. E. (Pardue), Sarah E. (deceased), William (deceased), James
M., Saysa H., [sic - Naysa] Narcissa E. (deceased), Mary S. (Kincheloe)
and Parmelia E. (Perkins).  Capt. Simmons married, October 12, 1865,
Sarah E., daughter of Emory P. and Elizabeth (Holsclaw) Denham.  She was
born July 8, 1843, and to their union have been born Mary E. (Payne),
Genia E., Emory W., Zion P., Lucy D., Zorah B. and William M.  Capt.
Simmons is a farmer, and was one of the assistant marshals for the
purpose of taking the census.  He is one of the solid men of his
section, and in politics is a Republican.

Simmons Denham Dossey Holsclaw Kincheloe Pardue Payne Perkins
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Fountain_Run-Monroe IL NC

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