When William Eli Semones was born on 1 September 1873, in Fancy Gap, Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, William Calvin Semones, was 23 and his mother, Mary Catherine Coleman, was 23. He married Barbara Elizabeth Barr on 28 July 1896, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Sulphur Spring, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Dublin, Pulaski, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 5 June 1943, in Parrott, Pulaski, Virginia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Parrott, Pulaski, Virginia, United States.
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English: variant of Simons .
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