... William Wells Simpson, b Feb. 15th, 1789, married Nancy Garlington, May 26th, 1813. - P 10 to 13 ...
... William Wells Simpson, second child of Col. John and Mary Wells Simpson was born Feb. 18th [sic], 1789, married Nov. 26th, 1813, Nancy Garlington,sister of the late John Garlington (see further R. W. Simpson, son of Richard F. Simpson). He died at his residence five miles southeast of Laurens, C.H. on the road leading to Milton, on the 13th day of Oct. 1836. Nancy Simpson his wife, died April 26th, 1865.
William Wells Simpson was a man of fine character, and very much loved and respected by all; and while all the Simpson men were physically small men, yet they were active and more than ordinarily strong men, and William Wells was the strongest of them all. I have heard my father say (he was his brother) that he could stand in a half bushel measure and shoulder six bushels of rye. All of his family were noted for their firmness and determination, much of which disposition they no doubt inherited from their mother, who was as said, Nancy Garlington. (For a sketch of her ancestors, see R. W. Simpson, son of Richard F. Simpson, who married Maria, a daughter of John, a brother of Nancy).
William Wells and Nancy Garlington Simpson had twelve children, as follows: ...
