Name: Simon Family_2019-09-28

Updated: 09-28-2019 16:09:90.

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Name: Francois Charles Simon
Sex: M
Birth: 23 DEC 1821 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Death: 9 NOV 1869 in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, of a lung infection
Burial: Neuchatel Cemetary, Neuchatel, Kansas.
Person Id: I135
Tree Id: 614545

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Parents

Father:

Jean Louis Simon: Birth: 5 SEP 1796 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Death: 2 MAY 1842 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Mother:

Rose Marguerite Bonjour: Birth: 6 NOV 1789 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Death: BEF 7 MAY 1851

Family
Marriage:

Married: Marie Olympe Aziere on 1 SEP 1864 at Turkey Creek, Kansas.
Marie Olympe Aziere: Birth: 24 FEB 1842 in Polaincourt, Haute-Saône, Franche-Comté, France. Death: 7 FEB 1907 in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas of a heart attack

Children:

Clemence Simon: Birth: 16 JUN 1865. Death: 8 APR 1867 in Kansas
Francis Charles Simon: Birth: 21 SEP 1866 in Neuchatel, Nemaha, Kansas, USA. Death: 3 NOV 1926 in Onaga, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA
Alcide August Simon: Birth: 25 JUL 1868. Death: AFT 1930

Family
Marriage:

Married: Louise Emelie Simon.
Louise Emelie Simon: Birth: 1824 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Death: 1863

Children:

Charles Louis Simon: Birth: 7 MAY 1851 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Death: 12 FEB 1879 in Kansas
Louise Emma Simon: Birth: 28 JAN 1853 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Death: ABT 1856 in Indiana
Anne Emma Simon: Birth: ABT 1854. Death: ABT 1964 in Neuchatel, Nemaha, Kansas, USA
Frederic Alcide Simon: Birth: 5 APR 1855 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Death: BEF OCT 1856 in Lignières, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Anne A. Simon: Birth: ABT 1857 in Indiana. Death: ABT 1870 in Nemaha County, Kansas, USA
Millie L. Simon: Birth: 6 NOV 1861 in Neuchatel, Nemaha, Kansas, USA. Death: 30 DEC 1920 in Westmoreland, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA

Notes

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Note: According to "Old Settlers' Tales" Charles Simon, cousin to Louis Constant Simon, came to Kansas in 1858, directly from Switzerland. His wife, Louise, and son, Louis, joined him the next year. He settled on a farm and built a log house. Louise died about 1863 and he then remarried to Mrs. Mary Martin, of Turkey creek, near Seneca, Kansas, after about a year. Mary came to the area with two children, J.C. Martin and Minerva Martin (later married to Mr. Swisher). Charles had three children by his first wife and two boys by his second wife. After his death about 1870, his widow married Baptist Gilson in 1875. She sold the farm to Ernest Descombes and Henry Morel in 1870. Charles was the first of the Swiss immigrants to get a team of horse, which he traded for.
We know some of these dates are incorrect. Louise and the children arrived in New York on October 28, 1856 in the company of the Vautravers family and two Zurchers. Charles must have come earlier.
The 1860 census for Red Vermillion, Nemaha County show F.C. Simon (35), wife Louise (35) and son Louis (8) all born in Switzerland, plus Annie E. (born abt. 1854 in Indiana) and Annie A. (born abt 1857 in Indiana).

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