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J. H. SIMMONS, Fulton County, was born in Davidson County, Tenn., March 5, 1827, and is the eldest of twelve children of Ephraim and Susan (Gower) Simmons, both natives of Tennessee. The father was a farmer and died in 1866; the mother died in 1882. Subject was reared on a farm and received a good practical education, and at the age of eighteen years, engaged as a clerk with a firm at Sycamore Mills, then went to Nashville, where he remained five or six years. He then went to Rutherford County, Tenn., and started a store of his own at the town of Smyrna, where he conducted a business for a period of seven years, when he sold out and came to Fulton County, Ky., locating about six miles from Hickman. He purchased his present farm in 1869, and is now the owner of 360 acres of fine land, the greater part of which has been brought to a high state of cultivation. In 1855 he married Miss S. C. Fitzhugh, of Tennessee. This union has been blessed with two children, one of whom is dead; the one living, Leonard D., is a young man of fine business qualifications. Mr. Simmons is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and belongs to the Christian Church. His wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.