Winston T. Simmons

Birth Date

1823-09-22

Death Date

1888

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Grant County, Kentucky, teacher and attorney. Bullitt County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Simmons and Mary Winston Simmons. Married to Eugenia C. Price Simmons in Scott County on May 10, 1854. Father of William M. Simmons, Cora W. Simmons, Lizzie Simmons, James E. Simmons, and Winston T. Simmons. Attorney in Grant County from c1841 to 1885. Schoolteacher in Kenton County, Kentucky in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in 1850. Attorney in Williamstown, Kentucky in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, p. 170B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, pp. 989-990.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 601B.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Rolls ##994027-994058: Scoott County Marriages, p. 3.
Find A Grave, "Winston T. Simmons (1823-1888)," Memorial #118769393, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118769393 (accessed March 17, 2017).
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: History of the State, (Louisville; Chicago: F.A. Battey and Company, 1887), p. 883.

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