Family Ties (1 of 2)

                            EDWARD SIMMONS (1770-1839)

  Wife No. 1: Teresa Tolley Simmons (probable mother, Rebecca Budd)

  Wife No. 2  Elizabeth Creighton Travers Simmons

  Children:

1. Elizabeth Simmons Ruark (also see Henry Ruark)

2. Jacob Simmons

              Children:

a. Major T. Simmons

b. John T. Simmons

1) Louisa Simmons

2) Samuel W. Simmons

c. Samuel A. Simmons and wife Susan Ruark Simmons Travers

1) Susan M. Simmons

d. Eliza Simmons

e. Samuel J. Cannon (husband of Jacob's daughter, Sarah "Sally")

3. Alexander Travers Simmons and wife Susan Ann Travers Mills (m. James B. Mills)

a. Rebecca Simmons Ruark (see Henry W. Ruark)

       4. Nancy (or Ann) Simmons Carmine (probable daughter)

       5. Daughter-in-law, Theresa Simmons, wife of Thomas Simmons

  Grandchildren of Edward:  Elizabeth L. Adams, Henry F. Adams, George Q. Adams,                     Sarah Jane Wallace; Eliza J. Sanders, Frances A. Sanders, John Sanders, and                   William  A. Sanders (probable grandchildren of Edward Simmons)

  Also buried here: Samuel W. Simmons (probable brother of Edward Simmons)

Virginia Cannon LeCompte with her grandsons--Logan, Mathew, and Samuel IV--and her son, Samuel III, stand behind the gravestone listing the names of those buried in unmarked graves including that of Samuel J. Cannon.

A Family of the Chesapeake

A Family of the Chesapeake: the Life of Edward Simmons of Dorchester

County, Maryland, and His Descendants is available from Trafford

Publishing for $25 plus shipping through the Trafford website at

www.Trafford.com or through their order desk at 1-888-232-4444.  It

can also be obtained from Amazon.com.  Royalties from these sales

are contributed to the Graveyard account.

The book documents the life of Edward Simmons and follows the lines

of his nine children bearing such family names as:  Aaron, Cannon,

Creighton, Dean, Flowers, Hooper, Parks, Phillips, Rippons, Ruark,

Simmons, Tolley, Travers, Tyler, and many more.