Brief Life History of James
When James Simpson was born on 8 February 1816, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Anderson Simpson, was 22 and his mother, Susannah Cocke, was 18. He married Mary Ann Jump on 5 February 1835, in Grant, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Williamstown, Grant, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Cross Roads Magisterial District, Grant, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 11 January 1891, in Grant, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Simpson, Breathitt, Kentucky, United States.
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- James Simpson, "United States Census, 1880"
- James Simpson, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- James Simpson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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