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9. SUSAN⁴ WHITAKER (JONAS W.³, SAMUEL², DAVID¹) was born January 22, 1850 in Texas, and died January 12, 1881 in Grayson County, Texas. She married JOHN ASHLEY SIMPSON May 28, 1868 in Collin County, Texas, son of GEORGE SIMPSON and MARY BROWN. He was born June 05, 1843 in Christian County, Kentucky, and died Aft. 1889.

Notes for SUSAN WHITAKER:
Buried in Warden Cemetery, Collin County, Texas

Note: Date of death on tombstone is January 12, 1881 which conflicts with the date of death given in the following biographical sketch of June 28, 1887.

Found in Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas published in 1889:

John Ashley Simpson, farmer of Grayson county, is not a native of Texas, but has been in the State nearly all his life, and by reason of his long residence here is entitled to rank among the old settlers. He is a son of George W. and Mary (Brown) Simpson. His father was a native of Tennessee, was reared in Christian county, Ky., moving from there to Texas in the fall of 1857, and settling first at old Warren, in Fannin county, from which he moved afterward to Parker, and then to Grayson county, locating near the present village of Elmont, where he was engaged for many years in farming and stock raising. He died December 3, 1887, in his sixty-eighth year. J.A. Simpson's mother, whose Christian name was Mary, was a daughter of John Brown, a native of Alabama, who moved afterward to Kentucky, where George W. Simpson met and married her. She died at the old homestead in Grayson, June 28, 1887, in her seventy-first year.

The children of George W. and Mary Simpson are - John Ashley, the subject of this sketch; Irving Theophilus, Nancy Frances, Louvenia, James Thomas, and Augustus Henry.

John Ashley Simpson was born in Christian County, Kentucky, June 5, 1843, and was consequently fourteen years of age when his father moved to Texas. He grew up, as most boys of his time did, on the farm and cattle ranges. In 1862, he entered the Confederate service as a member of Company A, Hardemann's regiment, and was assigned to duty with this command in north Texas, Arkansas, and in Indian Territory. He was on outpost and picket line duty largely, participating in the general engagements at Poison Springs, Cross Hollows, and Cabin Creek Station, Arkansas, serving mostly as a private, and acting also as courier to General Gano. Returning to Grayson county after the war closed, he drifted West on to the ranges, where he spent several years among the cattle men, fighting Indians. In those days he led the rough and ready life of the cowboy, saw much of the world, and fortunately, profited largely by his experience. Returning to Grayson county he married on April 19, 1868, Miss Susan Whitaker, daughter of Jonas Whitaker, an old settler of Grayson county, whose sketch appears in this work. She died in February, 1879, leaving surviving four children - James Edward, Mary Belle, Addie Alice, and Walter. Mr. Simpson married again in March, 1881, his second wife being Mrs. Ann Button, a widow, and daughter of Robert Garnett, also an early settler of Grayson county.

Mr. Simpson is a prosperous farmer and sucessful stock dealer. He has a good farm three and one-half miles west of Van Alstyne, lying on the Collin county line, well improved, well stocked, and well furnished with all necessary buildings.

Mr. Simpson is a progressive citizen, fully alive to the best interests of his community in all things, and especially in the matter of education. He was among the first of his neighborhood to start a movement to establish a high school at Elmont, and has since been foremost among the advocates of that institution.

Notes for JOHN ASHLEY SIMPSON:
Found in Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas published in 1889:

John Ashley Simpson, farmer of Grayson county, is not a native of Texas, but has been in the State nearly all his life, and by reason of his long residence here is entitled to rank among the old settlers. He is a son of George W. and Mary (Brown) Simpson. His father was a native of Tennessee, was reared in Christian county, Ky., moving from there to Texas in the fall of 1857, and settling first at old Warren, in Fannin county, from which he moved afterward to Parker, and then to Grayson county, locating near the present village of Elmont, where he was engaged for many years in farming and stock raising. He died December 3, 1887, in his sixty-eighth year. J.A. Simpson's mother, whose Christian name was Mary, was a daughter of John Brown, a native of Alabama, who moved afterward to Kentucky, where George W. Simpson met and married her. She died at the old homestead in Grayson, June 28, 1887, in her seventy-first year.

The children of George W. and Mary Simpson are - John Ashley, the subject of this sketch; Irving Theophilus, Nancy Frances, Louvenia, James Thomas, and Augustus Henry.

John Ashley Simpson was born in Christian county, Kentucky, June 5, 1843, and was consequently fourteen years of age when his father moved to Texas. He grew up, as most boys of his time did, on the farm and cattle ranges. In 1862, he entered the Confederate service as a member of Company A, Hardemann's regiment, and was assigned to duty with this command in north Texas, Arkansas, and in Indian Territory. He was on outpost and picket line duty largely, participating in the general engagements at Poison Springs, Cross Hollows, and Cabin Creek Station, Arkansas, serving mostly as a private, and acting also as courier to General Gano. Returning to Grayson county after the war closed, he drifted West on to the ranges, where he spent several years among the cattle men, fighting Indians. In those days he led the rough and ready life of the cowboy, saw much of the world, and fortunately, profited largely by his experience. Returning to Grayson county he married on April 19, 1868, Miss Susan Whitaker, daughter of Jonas Whitaker, an old settler of Grayson county, whose sketch appears in this work. She died in February, 1879, leaving surviving four children - James Edward, Mary Belle, Addie Alice, and Walter. Mr. Simpson married again in March, 1881, his second wife being Mrs. Ann Button, a widow, and daughter of Robert Garnett, also an early settler of Grayson county.

Mr. Simpson is a prosperous farmer and sucessful stock dealer. He has a good farm three and one-half miles west of Van Alstyne, lying on the Collin county line, well improved, well stocked, and well furnished with all necessary buildings.

Mr. Simpson is a progressive citizen, fully alive to the best interests of his community in all things, and especially in the matter of education. He was among the first of his neighborhood to start a movement to establish a high school at Elmont, and has since been foremost among the advocates of that institution.

Children of SUSAN WHITAKER and JOHN SIMPSON are:

	i.		JAMES EDWARD⁵ SIMPSON.
	ii.		MARY BELLE SIMPSON.
	iii.		ADDIE ALICE SIMPSON.
	iv.		WALTER SIMPSON.

10. JAMES RICHARD⁴ WHITAKER (JONAS W.³, SAMUEL², DAVID¹) was born June 1863 in Texas, and died 1922 in Collin County, Texas. He married CYNTHA A. "ADDIE" GLEAVES 1898 in Texas, daughter of JOHN GLEAVES and ELIZABETH MCSPEDDEN. She was born January 1873 in Tennessee, and died 1951 in Collin County, Texas.

Notes for JAMES RICHARD WHITAKER:
1900 Grayson County Census
      Jack R. Whitaker / age 36 / Born in Texas / Father born in Missouri / Mother born in Virginia /             Farmer / Rented Farm
      Cynthia A. / age 26 / Born in Tennessee / Parents born in Tennessee
      Leona / age 8 months / born in Texas
      John R. Gleaves (Cynthia's father) / age 74 / Born in Tennessee

Buried in Warden Cemetary, Collin County, Texas

Notes for CYNTHA A. "ADDIE" GLEAVES:
Buried in Warden Cemetary, Collin County, Texas

Her tombstone has her name as Cyntha rather than Cynthia.

Children of JAMES WHITAKER and CYNTHA GLEAVES are:

	i.	LEONA⁵ WHITAKER, b. September 1899.
14.	ii.	NETTIE MAE WHITAKER, d. 1983, Garland, Texas.
	iii.	ALMA WHITAKER, m. WILLIAMS.
	iv.	ZELMA WHITAKER, m. PARKS.
	v.	HOMER WHITAKER, b. December 17, 1903; d. June 10, 1905, Collin County, Texas.

Notes for HOMER WHITAKER:
Buried in Warden Cemetery, Collin County, Texas

vi.

VELMA WHITAKER, b. April 02, 1907; d. May 16, 1908, Collin County, Texas.

Notes for VELMA WHITAKER:
Buried in Warden Cemetery, Collin County, Texas .

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