This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Simpson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jhB.2ACI/238.5.1 Message Board Post: Our James Sanders Simpson had the middle name of Sanders. We have never figured out how or why he got that name. He was born 1842 in Hardeman Co., TN. Are there any Simpsons in your Sanders family?