This is what I know of the migration of the Simmons family whose report I sent earlier. John SIMMONS, according to the bio of his son, William Patterson SIMMONS, in Goodspeed's History of TN (Weakley Co.) was born "somewhere in Middle TN (I still don't know the county.) Family stories say the family came, originally, to TN from Oxford, Granville Co., NC. John was head of his own household in 1840 Weakley Co. census and 1850 (Dist. 8). In 1860, he was in Obion Co.; 1870: Weakley Co.; 1880: Obion Co. I don't know if he moved back and forth or if the boundaries changed a bit. He died in Obion Co. in 1890 but descendants, including my grandparents and parents lived in Weakley Co. for many, many years. Brenda