Posted on: Venango Co. Pa Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/Venango/2268 Surname: Simcox ------------------------- reference Babcock's History Of Venango County, Pa. printed 1919: pg. 538: names Frank Simcox, son of Shadrach Simcox, the son of John Simcox, grandson of the elder Shadrach Simcox pg. 539: "Mr. and Mrs. Simcox became the parents of eight children, two of whom preceded their father to the grave, Bertha and Rev. Frank Simcox, the latter a Presbyterian missionary in China, where he was murdered with his family, wife and three children, by Boxers at Pao Ting Fu in July, 1900." I am descended from William & Martha Zink SIMCOX of Venango Co.