Brief Life History of Samuel Charles
When Samuel Charles Simpson was born on 25 April 1894, in Llano, Texas, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Simpson Jr, was 30 and his mother, Laodica H. Huffman, was 26. He married Dora Myrtle Beesley on 21 February 1912, in Mason, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Mason, Texas, United States in 1940 and Field Creek, Llano, Texas, United States in 1942. He died on 18 January 1969, in San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Pontotoc Cemetery, Pontotoc, Mason, Texas, United States.
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- Unknown, "United States Census, 1940"
- Charley Samuel Simpson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Samuel Charles Simpson, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
1914 · Steamboat Service Established with New York
Satilla was the first Deepwater Steamship to arrive at the port of Houston. This accomplishment successfully established a steamboat service between Houston and New York City.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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