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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Sarah Harbison Simmons: Birth: 9 DEC 1824. Death: 6 DEC 1910 in St. Louis, Missouri

  2. Benjamin Simmons: Birth: 8 JAN 1828 in Pennsylvania.

  3. Daniel H. Simmons: Birth: 1 MAR 1829 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Death: 9 JAN 1922 in Portland, Oregon

  4. Augustus Simmons: Birth: 1833 in Ohio.


Sources
1. Title:   Simmons, Bringhurst, Dally, Clarkson and Shute family information has been obtained from independent research of census and other records by William F. Archerd, as recorded in the research and source notes for the individuals in this database, and from t
2. Title:   Richard Price, of Price & Associates Incorporated, Salt Lake City, Utah [PriceGen.com], provided me with a March 30, 2004 chart for John Simmons [died 1795 in New York City], his children and his ancestors, including his father and mother in Portsea, Ham
3. Title:   <b>John and Margaret Simmons of New York, Revolutionary War Pension File at NARA, , Page 4, </b>, State of Ohio Monroe County, On the 3rd day of June AD 1833 personally appeared in open court before the court of common pleas of Monroe County in the 5th j

Notes
a. Note:   N35 She first married a man named Moffit and then married John Simmons in 1824 in Wheeling, Virginia.
  She succeeded to John's Revolutionary War pension.
  In the index to the 1850 census for Ward 4, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio are Margt Simmons, 52, born Pennsylvania; Benj. Simmons, 23, born Pennsylvania; Daniel Simmons, 21, born Pennsylvania; and Augustus Simmons, 17, born Ohio.
  She made a Widow's Claim for Bounty Land. The application was witnessed by Richard Hukill and David Hukill of Campbell County, Kentucky, dated May 28, 1855 and taken before notary A. W. Johnson and Clerk James H. Parker. The claim asserted that Margaret, aged 60 years, of Campbell County was the widow of John Simmons of Wheeling, Va., that her husband was a soldier under Captain Underchurch in the N.Y. militia commanded by Col. Hays in the War of the Revolution, that she married him on Feb. 12, 1824, that her maiden name was Harbison, that he died in 1843, and that he was a pensioner on the Ohio pension roll at the rate of $27.33 per annum under the act of June 7, 1832. She signed with her mark.
  Son Daniel Howe Simmons stated that she died about 1866 in Little Washington, Pennsylvania.
  In the 1860 census for Washington Bourough, Washington County, Pennsylvania, there is a Margaret Simmons, 64, born Pennsylvania, residing with James and Melvina Allen, and their six children. Is Melvina a daughter of Margaret's first marriage?
  I am not researching Massey Harbison but I found some astounding info in "MERRIE OLDE MIDDLESEX" by Caroljo Forsythe Lee published in 1976 at Valencia, PA. I was stunned by some of the info and suggest that you Harbison researchers check the book.
 I knew that John Harbison died ca 1822 near Cincinnati, Ohio BUT I did not know that Massey and John were divorced in Butler Co., PA, Oct. 1820. According to this book Massey was granted $30 annually as alimony and John was ordered to pay court costs. There is a copy of the divorce papers on page 28.
 As to Massey's name: This is the paragraph: "Massah? Massy? Massey/ Massa? Why is she called Massey by some, yet her tombstone reads Massa? The origin of her name is of some boar's head debate. Coming from a Scriptually-minded New England family, she may have been named Massah, which is Hebraic for "trial" or "temptation." This may be hindsight romanticism. Other family tradition holds that her original name was Mary or Mera, corrupted to Missy and from there to Massy. She did sign her name Mary on a deed for the Bull Creek property which lends credence to that version. But she herself certainly considered herself "Massey" with an "e" to which she signed other deeds, two pensions, the 1810 forgery action and her own 1820 divorce papers."
  From: grimml@verizon.net
 Subject: Re: [ALL] HARBISON/Fawn Twp/Harrison Twp. Allegheny Co.,PA
 Date: April 10, 2007 4:06:58 PM EDT
 To: paallegh@rootsweb.com
 Reply-To: paallegh@rootsweb.com
  William H Harbison & Margaret Huey lived in Fawn Twp. Allegheny Co.,PA See
 1880 Census. William H. Harbison was the son of Benjamin Harbison. Joseph
 Harbison, son of William H. & Margaret Huey Harbison moved into Harrison
 Twp., Allegheny Co.,PA. See 1910 census of Harrison Twp., Allegheny Co.,PA.
 Freeport & Kittanning Road, now old Rt. 28 north. Joseph Harbison worked in
 the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Mill in Brackenridge, Pa. Before 1920 Joseph &
 Nettie Harbison moved into the old stone house on Saxonburg Road, Natrona
 Hgts, PA. They did not build this house. This house was constructed on the
 same order as the old stone house called the Burtner House just off Exit 15
 of the Allegheny Valley Expressway north. I spoke to David Harbison today
 and he will share what information he has. His address is: David Harbison,
 120 Ford City Road, Freeport, PA. 16229. In the later years Joseph Harbison
 moved back to the Harbison farm in Fawn Twp., Nettie Harbison lived in the
 stone house with her mother Annie Kaufold. John W. & Annie Kaufold once
 lived near the Harbison family in Fawn Twp., John Kaufold died and Annie
 Kaufold moved into 1st. Ward, Tarentum, PA and operated a boarding house.
 Daughter Nettie was married at this time to Joseph Harbison. My sister
 married James (Jim) Harbison, son of Joseph & Nettie Harbison. Talking to
 David Harbison brought back my childhood as we grow up together in the same
 neighborhood. Libby

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