When John B. simmons was born in 1840, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Thomas Simmons, was 23 and his mother, Barbara Grinder, was 18. He lived in Greenfield, Poinsett, Arkansas, United States in 1850. He died on 15 May 1862, at the age of 22.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
By the time the Battle of Pea Ridge happened the Union forces had pushed Confederates through Missouri and Arkansas. This battle was important in securing Missouri for the Union and opening Arkansas for the Union.
English (southeastern): variant of Simon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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