Contributor: Sterling Parker Email: grandyandpops@cs.com HUSBAND: JOHN EZEKIAL SIMPSON Born: 15 April 1839 Place: Georgia Died: 5 Feb. 1903 Place: Bosque Co., TX Buried: Oak Grove Cemetery Father: Eleazer Simpson Mother: Martha Jane Phillips ---------------------------------------------------------- Wife's Name: MARY JANE DYKES Born: 5 January 1839 Place: Died: 21 June 1910 Place: Bosque Co., TX. Buried: Oak Grove Cemetery Place: Walnut Springs, TX Father: Mother: ---------------------------------------------------------- Married: abt. 1860 Place: prob. Ala. ---------------------------------------------------------- CHILDREN ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. Name: JOHN E. SIMPSON Born: abt 1860 Place: Alabama Married (date & place): Spouse: Ersula (unknown last name) Died: 1934 Place: Iredell, Bosque Co., TX ---------------------------------------------------------- 2. Name: LAURA M. SIMPSON Born: abt. 1865 Place: Alabama Married (date & place): Unknown Spouse: J.H. Denman Died: Unknown Place: Unknown ---------------------------------------------------------- 3. Name: FLORENCE E. SIMPSON Born: 9 July 1868 Place: Alabama Married (date & place): 16 Sept. 1882, Waco, TX. Spouse: Charles David Whiteley Died: 21, Nov. 1943 Place: Oklahoma City, Ok. buried Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, TX ---------------------------------------------------------- 4. Name: JAMES H. SIMPSON Born: abt. 1870 Place: Alabama Married (date & place): Spouse: Lin A. (unknown last name) Died: unknown Place: unknown ---------------------------------------------------------- 5. Name: JOSHUA M. SIMPSON Born: 26, June, 1871 Place: Alabama Married (date & place): Spouse: Jessie F. (unknown last name) Died: 1939 Place: Amarillo, TX. ---------------------------------------------------------- 6. Name: ALSOPFINE SIMPSON Born: 1876 Place: Georgia Married (date & place): Spouse: James M. Williford Died: Place: ---------------------------------------------------------- 7. Name: JOSPHINE SIMPSON Born: 1878 Place: Georgia Married (date & place): Spouse: Matt H. Francis Died: Place: ---------------------------------------------------------- 8. Name: JEPTHA W. SIMPSON Born: 1880 Place: Texas Married (date & place): Spouse: Died: Place: ------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Name: HENRY GENT SIMPSON Born: 1882 Place: Bell Co., Texas Married (date & place): Spouse: Edna Pearl Youree Died: 27, March, 1942 Place: Bosque Co., TX. buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Walnut Springs, TX ---------------------------------------------------------- NOTES: Henry Gent Simpson and Edna Pearl Youree are my grandparents, John Ezekial Simpson and Mary Jane Dykes are my great Grandparents. My family
has lived around Bosque Co for near one hundred years My mother Mary Jane Simpson Kellogg and my sister Mary Janis Parker Barton reside in Glen Rose today.
---------------------------------------------------------- SOURCES: My mother Mary Jane Simpson Kellogg, she is near 85 if anyone would like to interview her on the history of Walnut Springs, Texas. She was born there in 1915 and remembers practically everyone who lived there until
around 1960.
