Guileta H. "Lettie" Simmons

Female2 July 1868–14 April 1901

Brief Life History of Guileta H. "Lettie"

When Guileta H. "Lettie" Simmons was born on 2 July 1868, in Tooele, Utah, United States, her father, Samuel Simmons, was 29 and her mother, Guilieta Fidelia Hillman, was 21. She married Charles Derry Constance on 9 October 1887, in DeKalb, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Grand River Township, DeKalb, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Kidder Township, Caldwell, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 14 April 1901, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Grand River Township, DeKalb, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Derry Constance
1868–1946
Guileta H. "Lettie" Simmons
1868–1901
Marriage: 9 October 1887
Mabel Adlinda Constance
1888–1966
Chester Earl Constance
1891–1944
Alma Silas Constance
1893–1967
Clarence Leonard Constance
1895–1974
Arthur Elvin Constance
1897–1971
Emma Bertha Constance
1899–1937
Ernest L Constance
1901–1901

Sources (10)

  • Juletta Simmons in household of Samuel Simmons, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Lettie H Constance, "BillionGraves Index" [d.1901]
  • E. Simmons in entry for Clarence L. Constance and Mary Ann Sayers, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950" [m.1921]

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    9 October 1887DeKalb, Missouri, United States
  • Children (7)

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    Siblings (10)

    +5 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 2

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1870 · Giving all the right to vote

    Age 2

    The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 13

    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    Name Meaning

    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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