GENEALOGY Beginning with Henry W. and Rebecca "Becky" Ann Matilda Moore Simmons Henry W. Simmons was born on July 12, 1858 in Georgia. He died May 22, 1917, and is buried at Antioch Cemetery in LaCrosse, Florida. In 1875 he married Rebecca (Becky-Ann) Matilda Moore who was born in 1850, in Florida (1860 Census). She died February 12, 1927 in Okeechobee, Florida of bronchitis and mitral regurgitation.She is the daughter of James Henry Moore and Pamela Blanch Stokes. Henry and Rebecca had eight children. Their names are Richard Simmons, Oliver Bexley "Ollie" Simmons, Marion James Simmons, Lula Frank Simmons Bennett, Isaac Elbert "Bud" Simmons, Thomas Jefferson Simmons, Harry James Simmons and Ida Virginia Simmons Conerly. The children of Henry and Rebecca were all born in Monteocha, Florida (pronounced Mounte Oak). This is a small rural community approximately 12 miles north east of Gainesville. The records that follow lists each of these eight children and their descendants. The information is as accurate as possible. There may be some marriages and births that we do not cover in this compilation. If you know of any information that may be added to the history of the Simmons Family please forward that information to be added for future publications.
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