JOHN & SUSAN SIMMONDS and some of their descendants with related ancestral lines COMPILED BY FRANK WILLIAM SIMMONDS LIFE MEMBER or THE INSTITUTE or AMERICAN GENEALOGY /or the members of the family who are interested in family history PRINTED BY THE TUTTLE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. RUTLAND, VER.MONT PRINTED IN U. S. A., 1940 FRANK WILLIAM SIMMONDS CLARA BLANCHE (BURNS) SIMMONDS Taken 1937 Taken 1937 Dedicated lo my father ANGUS MACDONALD SIMMONDS and my mother CHRISTINA TILLMAN SIMMONDS courageous, industrious, sturdy self-reliant Kansas pioneers FAMILY COAT OF ARMS In earlier centuries Coats of Arms were regarded as "indispensable ap­ pend~ of gentlemen.'' The insignia used frequently signified qualifications or achievements of a man or a family. Acco~ to family tradition, the Coat of Arms shown above was carved above the fireplaces of the early York­ shire homes of the Simmonds family. In Burke's Records of English Heraldry, this family Coat of Arms is re­ corded as follows: "Az. a chev. or, betw in chief two roses ar, leaved vert. in base a cock of the third, combed, beaked and legged gu. Crest: a cock or combed, beaked and legged gu. '' This description covers first, the shield. On a background of blue there is placed a chevron in gold, above which are two roses in white on green leaves. Below the chevron is a cock in silver, combed, beaked and legged in red. The Crest reproduces the cock in the sa.me colors. The predominating insignia of the Coat of Arms is the cock. Wade, in hie Symbo'la of HeraMry, describes the cock as "A Bird of great coura.ge, always prepared for battle, it will frequently fight to the death. It is regarded as the herald of dawn -thus the emblem of Watchfulness. It h9..a also been used to denote a hero in the field of battle and also an emblem of an able man in nff airs of the country." The Chevron insignia traditionally is supposed to rei;,resent a roof and was often bestowed upon one who had offered shelter and protection to the King's ambassadors. · The rose as a Coat of Arms insignia is one of the oldest of emblems. It is traditionally symbolic of Love and Faith. While mottoes as a rule are not officially registered as a part of the Coat of Arms, in ~ractice they are often used. One, used with the above Coat of Arms, is DUM VIVO CANO - While I Live, I Crow, or a more fitting one frequently used, DUM SISTO VIGILO, meaning While I Stand, I Woten. APPRECIATION rrhe writer wishes to express his appreciation to all who assiste<l in securing the data herein presented and especially to his ~;re, Blanche Burns Simmonds, whose untiring industry and helpful­ ness in searching public records and collecting data over a long period of years, was of outstanding value. To her in a large measure belongs the credit for the preparation of the family history. But it was not ordained that she should live to Be(l> the work in printed form. With a pleasant smile, and a gentle wave of her hand, she left us on April 30, 1938, for another land. A biographical sketch of her, and her family lineage, appears in this record. The writ,er also expresses his appreciation for valuable assist­ ance given by Dr. Matthew George Burris of Dartmouth, N.S., Canada, and Harold Simmonds Davis of Riverside, Conn., and Mrs. Ruth McCurdy Byers of Truro, N. S., Mr. and Mrs. James Peppard of Great Village, N. S., and Judge S. G. McLellan of Truro, N. S. Every reasonable care has been taken to make the record a,..'-; accurate as possible, but doubtless in the collection of data from many sources, and their transcription many times preparatory to publication, here and there some errors in data may appear. If so, the writer will appreciate having it called to bis attention so that correction may be made in any future publication of thP family record. If any one can trace relationship to any one mentioned in this book, he can trace his line back several centuries. Every young couple should keep a permanent record of family mar­ riages, births, deaths, etc. For this purpose several blank record pages are included in th~ back of this book for the owner to record his own family record. Frank W iUiam Si-mrnonds Flemington, New Jersey 1940 EXPLANATION OF CROSS-INDEX PLAN The cross-index plan used in this family record is a simple one. 1 The Arabic numbers in the left-hand margins enumerate in order the descendants of John and Susan Simmonds. 2 The Arabic numbers at the head of each family chapter enumerate the families in order. 3 The Roman numerals: the number of children in a given family. 4 An asterisk (*) before a number indicates further informa­ tion later in the text where the name and issue of the individual may be found. To trace back the line of descent, take for example the name of Margaret Simmonds Moreau. The Roman III shows she is the third child of Daniel Howard and Lillis Dale Simmonds Moreau. The chapter number of this family is 291. Now tum to number 291 in the marginal enumeration where it is shown that her mother is the daughter of Frank W. and Margaret Dale Boughman Simmonds. Repeat this process with each genera­ tion. When an asterisk(*) precedes a number it indicates additional information in the line of descent. For example, take the name of William Henry Simmonds with starred marginal number, 29. Tum back in the book to the chapter number 29 where bis children will be found listed. Then for example, take the name of one of his children, Angus MacDonald Simmonds with starred number, 98. Turn to family chapter number 98 where you will find his children listed, etc., etc. CONTENTS PART I Page Introduction 9 Nova Scotia 21 Kansas 33 Smith County, Kansas . 37 First Generation . 53 Second Generation 53 Third Generation 63 Fourth Generation 71 Fifth Generation . 97 Sixth Generation . 131 Seventh Generation 146 PART II Outline of Ancestral Lines 153 Burrows (Burris) Family 155 Collier Family 165 Doane Family 165 Freeman Family 166 Hopkins Family 175 Mayo Family 177 Paine Family l78 Peppard Family 180 Raymond Family 182 Reynolds Family . 183 Snow Family 187 Southworth Familv., 187 Tillman Family 188 Treat Family 202 Indices 207 LIST OF. ILLUSTRATIONS Frank William and Clara Blanche (Burns) Simmonds FTontis']J'ieu Opposite Page Simmonds Coat-of-Arms 5 Nova Scotia Scenes 21 Pen drawing of Colchester County, N. S. 22 Hundred year old Map of North America 33 Sod Schoolhouse and Sod House . 36 Map of Smith County, Kansas 40 Homestead; Angus and Christina Simmonds; Frank and George Simmonds . 42 Pen drawing of Gays River District 56 James, David Murray, John Harvey and Mercy Ann Free- man Simmonds 71 Angus MacDonald and Christina (Tillman) Simmonds; William Henry and Hannah (Burris) Simmonds . 84 Squirrel Hunters' Discharge . 90 Squirrel Hunters' Certificate of Service . 92 Angus MacDonald, John William, George Duncan and Robert Lindsay Simmonds 108 Angus MacDonald Simmonds Family 119 Angus MacDonald Simmonds and Sons . 122 Frank W. and Margaret Dale Simmonds; Their children 139 Margaret Dale Simmonds and baby Christine; Three children 140 Tarrytown, New York Home 144 Daniel Howard Moreau, Lillis Dale (Simmonds) Moreau; W. J. Kinnamon, Lois Christine (Simmonds) Kin- namon. 146 Helen Francis Simmonds 148 Group pictures of children and grandchildren . 150 Pen drawing of Samuel Burrows (Burris) Homestead . 156 John William and Anna Marianne Tillman; Benjamin Tillman and sister Margaret (Tillman) Hewitt . 188 INTRODUCTION WHENCE CAME I AND WHO ARE MY PEOPLE? are queries as old as the human race itself - ever eagerly asked and sought - but never fully solved. Yet they hold for us an abiding, ever­ present interest in the lives, manners, custon1s, adventures, achievements and abodes of those from whom we are descended. Benjamin FrankJin has said that he was always deeply in­ terested and doubly thrilled whenever he read anything pertaining to his ancestors. Doubtless this is true of every normal member of the human family. It could scarcely be otherwise, for every fibre of our being, every phase of our personality is indelibly rooted in our ancestral lines. Their physical characteristics and mental attributes, their abilities and inhibitions, their energies and their apathies, their successes and their failures, their strength and their weakness, their joys and their griefs - all in a sense are part and parcel of our ancestral inheritance, coloring and characterizing our very being. In fact, they are our lengthened shadows, reaching back into the mystic past. Goethe, in speaking of ancestors, well says, "What you have inherited from your fathers, you must earn for yourself before you can call it your own." Edmund Burke says, "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors," and Plutarch observes, that, "It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors." My interest in ancestral lore was early awakened by occasion­ ally hearing Grandfather Simmonds, when he was in the mood, reminisce in an interesting manner on the events of bygone days and family kinship as we sat about the fireside during the Ion~ winter evenings at my father's farm home in Western Kansas. His experiences were wide and varied - ru:; mariner, shipbuilder, veteran of the Civil War and pioneer in Western Kansas-a native of Nova Scotia who emigrated to Maine, then removed to Ohio, thence to Iowa and finally W estem Kansas, then on the outer fringe of Western civilization.