Claude John Simmons and wife, Nancy Hanks Marrs. Nancy was born 20 Apr 1890 in Webster Co., Kentucky, died 4 Apr 1967 in Christopher, Franklin Co., Illinois. She is the daughter of Mulkey Watts Marrs. She is buried in Harrison Cemetery, Christopher, Franklin Co., Illinois.
Claude and Nancy are the parents of Vaughnie Ecton Simmons and Corinne Elizabeth Simmons. They also reared their niece, Almeta Merle Marrs from approximately one years old.
Family legend tells that Nancy punctured her lips with an ink pen, inadvertantly giving herself a tattoo. She had blue lips!
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
Photos of old headstones, graves, and obituaries from around the world.
Grave markers or headstones (commonly referred to as graves) and newspaper obituaries provide valuable information for the family historian and researcher. Photos of information found in cemeteries no...
Researching paternal Cross, Sherman, Hill, Lewis and maternal Golden, Marrs families. Have blocks at Charles Cross (Franklin Co., Illinois), Abel Sherman (Rhode Island), John R. Golden (Pennsylvania), and Aseneth Smallwood married to William Hill.