This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Simmons, Deford, Lackey, Bemiss, Abel, Gorham Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/632.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am so happy to hear from someone from this line! First I have to ask if you know anything about Jeremiah's dad? We have been running into alot of walls where it concerns him. We know he was a potter from MA and that his wife was a Molly (Mary Bemiss). His name also was Jeremiah. We are researching evidence that his father may have been Job Simmons who married an Elizabeth Howland. They were married in MA in 1797, and by 1801 were in Hancock Vermont. They moved to Middlebury Vermont around 1810. On the 1810 census they have 5 children (4boys and 1 girl) According to the town records of Middlebury they lost a child in 1813 who was only a year old. Then they seem to vanish. We have not been able to locate them anywhere till Jeremiah and Margaret get married in Elkhart County 1837. There was a brief reference in a book about Andalusia to a guy by the name of Samuel Kenworthy seeing Jeremiah and his brother Elijah in Liverpool Ohio. I know the name of three of the children Jeremiah b 1800 Elijah b 1819 Job b 1815, but thats we have been able to find. I have alot of info on the line forward from 1837 to current. Please email me direct! Maria Simmons Kagee