Person:Henry Simpson (13)

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Name Henry Gordon Simpson
Gender Male
Birth[1] 6 Mar 1828 Laurens, South Carolina, United States
Marriage to Frances Tillman
Death[1] 3 May 1879 Edgefield, South Carolina, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Holmes, Z. L. (Rev.). The Simpson Genealogy: of two distinct families of Simpsons who married and emigrated from County Antrim, Ireland, and settled in Laurens County, South Carolina, between 1770 and 1790. (Revised and brought to present time by Eugene S. Hudgens, 1958)
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    ... Henry Gordon Simpson, ninth child of William Wells and Nancy Garlington Simpson, was born March 6th, 1828. He removed, when a young man, to Edgefield County, S.C., and there married one Fannie Tillman, a sister of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman, Governor of South Carolina, and now U.S. Senator. Henry G. Simpson died May 3rd, 1879. His wife, Fanny Tillman Simpson, and four children are still alive.

    Their children are as follows:

    Sophie Steiner Simpson, born June 4th, 1872
    Nanny Garlington Simpson, b. Aug. 19th, 1874, d. Aug. 7th, 1876.
    Mary Anna Simpson.
    Margaret Simpson, James' twin, b. June 8th, 1876
    James Simpson, Margaret's twin, b. June 8th, 1876
    Sallie Henrietta Simpson, b. Aug. 18th, 1878.