Part of that line, from John and Catharine on down, is in the World Family Tree #132, file #33. There are other children. Andy Rowe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Shannon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Trying to unblock some road blocks... > I've been watching this exchange with interest. I'm at a standstill with > my > SIMPSON family research also. > > Mine is the "other" Simpson family that you refer to. Anannias Theodore > Simpson and Lucetta Ann Simpson are the children of John Simpson (1818 - > 1867) and Catharine Miller (1821 -1901). Their sister, Sarah Ann Simpson > (1840-1908), is my great-great grandmother. She was married to Joseph > Peter > Wible. > > John Simpson is the son of Samuel Simpson (1770-1855) and Franey Ebersol > (1785- ca 1852). This is where my Simpson research dead ends. > > Barbara Shannon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard McClelland Simpson, III" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 4:18 PM > Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Trying to unblock some road blocks... > > >> Looking at the obituary of Gust Elmer Kuhns, I am reminded that it is the >> first time that I have ever seen in writing anything about my mother's >> adoption. My grandfather is listed fourth in the list of kids, my mother > is >> sixth. :) >> >> I have noticed that there are a lot of Simpsons in Westmoreland County in >> the 1850 census. A long line of them are related to the Bakers on my >> mother's side...but I can't find any proof linking the two families: > other >> than a botched family story talking about there being two brothers, one >> settling nearer Armbrust (which led to the naming of Simpson Road in >> Hempfield Township from White's Hill to SR 819), the other settling in >> Mt. >> Pleasant Township (leading to the naming of Simpson Hollow). Given that > my >> mother's memory when it comes to the Simpson family is shotty at best. >> :D >> >> Case in point...the "other" Simpson family I have in my tree leads from a >> James Simpson, I believe, the father of Ananias Theodore Simpson (who >> married Eva Amanda Baker) and Lucetta Jane Simpson (who married William >> Franklin Baker, Eva's brother). I would love to find out that James and >> George are related somehow...but being stuck in the metropolitan >> cornfield >> of Indianapolis precludes that. :D >> >> In follow up to the Lucetta Ballew obituary, I find it appropriate that >> there was no mention of her parents, though it was probably less likely >> then. Her mother was Martha Baker, but she is the only child (debatable, >> still researching) of John A. Black, Martha's first husband. John Black >> died shortly after Lucetta's birth from wounds in the Civil War. >> >> Richard >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message