Claude John Simmons (CJ or PeeWee) was born 18 Sep 1884 in New Albany, Indiana and died 13 Apr 1968 in Franklin Hospital, Benton, Franklin Co., Illinois. He was buried on 17 Apr 1968 in Harrison Cemetery, Christopher, Franklin Co., Illinois.
His parents were Thomas Franklin and Susan Elizabeth (nee Mulkins) Simmons.
The doctors say he died of heart disease, but the family says (missing his wife), it really was a broken heart.
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...
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Did you know medics, doctors and nurses used to prescribe narcotics as treatment?
Radium water, cough syrup made of alcohol, marijuana, and morphine, cocaine toothache drops for children, snake oil - medicine has changed quite a bit in the past 100 years or so, as has the way that ...
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.