When Wilcher Ellis Simmons was born on 26 February 1884, in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, Joseph Hasten Simmons, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ellen Jessup, was 32. He married Ida Mae Adams on 26 July 1905. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Pilot Mountain, Morgan, Tennessee, United States in 1950 and Westfield MM, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1950. He died on 22 March 1956, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Pilot Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English (southeastern): variant of Simon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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