This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AYB.2ACE/121.2 Message Board Post: Elizabeth Simmons (Mary Elizabeth Simmons), was b. 16 Nov 1843 in Richland Co, OH. She m. Ira Batcheller before 1863 in Cedar Co, IA. Abt. 1874 they came to Paton Twp of Greene Co, IA. They were parents of 9 children, 8 living in 1907. Elizabeth (Mary Elizabeth)'s parents, according to the 1907 Greene Co, IA History were Richard & Margaret (Myers) Simmons who were both natives of Virginia. This family went from Richland Co, OH to Cedar Co, IA in 1854 and then later settled in Jones Co, IA. Could this Richard Simmons and Margaret Myers be the same people as Richard Beaman Simmons and Mary Myers? If not, do they connect to the family in some other way? Willing to share other information from the biography, and more about the Simmons family from Greene Co. sources. Lila