Submitted by: Julie Smith Oliver julie_oliver87@yahoo.com on Thu Mar 6 21:14:08 2003Husband James Franklin SIMMONS Born 15 Feb 1850 Location AL Married Location Died 18 May 1915 Location TX Cemetery Ware Cemetery Location Tolosa, Kaufman Co., TX Father Mother Other Spouses Wife Lodaska SIMMONS Born 25 Dec 1855 Location MS Died 12 Dec 1926 Location TX Cemetery Ware Cemetery Location Tolosa, Kaufman Co., TX Father Alexander SIMMONS Mother Eliza Other Spouses Children 1 Name Oliver Judson SIMMONS Born May 1876 Location MS Died Aug 1916 Location Malakoff, TX Cemetery Ware Cemetery Location Tolosa, Kaufman, TX Spouse 1 Ida Dunlap Married 04 April 1904 Location Frio Co., TX Spouse 2 Married Location 2 Name Charles Oscar SIMMONS Born 16 Jul 1880 Location Little Rock, AR Died 13 Apr 1938 Location Bachelor, TX Cemetery Location TX Spouse 1 Jane Married Location Spouse 2 Eunice Stovall Married 28 Nov 1920 Location 3 Name Johnnie H. SIMMONS Born 16 Aug 1883 Location TX Died 1959 Location TX Cemetery Location Spouse 1 Lottie Married Location Spouse 2 Married Location 4 Name Minnie SIMMONS Born 01 Aug 1885 Location TX Died 02 Oct 1969 Location TX Cemetery Location Spouse 1 Thomas J. Wren Married 28 Apr 1913 Location TX Spouse 2 Married Location 5 Name William Fletcher SIMMONS Born 13 Jul 1889 Location Smithville, Bastrop Co. TX Died 07 Dec 1968 Location Tyler, TX Cemetery Elm Grove Cemetery Location Elm Grove, TX Spouse 1 Alvie Mae Hutto Married Location TX Spouse 2 Married Location 6 Name Dora Birdie SIMMONS Born 07 Feb 1894 Location Smithville, Bastrop Co., TX Died 04 Sep 1966 Location Kaufman, Kaufman Co., TX Cemetery Crandall Cemetery Location Crandall, Kaufman Co., TX Spouse 1 William Thomas Wilson Married Location TX Spouse 2 John Harvey Benson Married Location TX 7 Name Pearl SIMMONS Born Jan 1898 Location TX Died 04 Sep 1980 Location Dallas Co., TX Cemetery Location TX Spouse 1 Everett Edward Reed Married 28 Aug 1915 Location Kaufman Co., TX Spouse 2 Married Location 8 Name Willie SIMMONS Born 20 Apr 1900 Location Kaufman Co. ,TX Died 14 Sep 1953 Location TX Cemetery Elm Grove Cemetery Location Elm Grove, TX Spouse 1 Latisha "Tishie" Brewer Married Location TX Spouse 2 Abbie Jewell Married Location TX 9 Name Born Location Died Location Cemetery Location Spouse 1 Married Location Spouse 2 Married Location 10 Name Born Location Died Location Cemetery Location Spouse 1 Married Location Spouse 2 Married Location
Comments: Lodaska was paralyzed the last 12 years of her life and was bound to a wheel chair. After her husbands death she lived with her son Charles Simmons and his family. You can view Lodaska and James headstones via the Ware Cemetery enumeration which is linked below.
Sources: Itawampa Co., MS 1860 Census 58/58 (head of house Alexander Simmons); Dora Simmons birth certificate- Bastrop Co., TX., Vol. 22, pg. 351; Bastrop Co., TX Land Deed, Vol. 17/ Pg. 530, Kaufman Co., TX. 1910 Census, Precinct 2, 325/338.
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