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CHARLES SIMMONS, farmer; P. O. Fletcher; is a son of Peter Simmons, who was born in Pennsylvania, 1795, and, when a boy 12 years old, with his parents, emigrated to Ohio, and located in Brown Township, where they lived and died. Peter was a devoted farmer in the pioneer days, and during life accumulated a good farm in Sec. 36, Brown Township. About 1827, his marriage with Elizabeth Bowersox was celebrated, who was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1802, and died in Brown Township, 1875, Peter dying six years previous; they were the parents of ten children, of whom five reached maturity, Charles being the third son. His great-grandfather, Philip Simmons was of German birth, and in, 1763, embarked for the Western Continent. Charles Simmons was born in Brown Township, January, 1831, and was brought up to farm labor, and received a common education in the pioneer days; he entered the path of life for himself in 1852, and has, by hard labor and good management, accumulated 135 acres of land in Secs. 31 and 36, which is well improved. He has recently been elected to the office of Township Trustee, which office he now holds. In 1856, he married Phebia Reader, who was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, in 1838; they were the parents of thirteen children, of whom nine are now living, viz., Emma E., William H., Mary C., George O., Nannie, Rosa E., Theresa J., Albert and Alice. Mrs. Simmons is a daughter of Simeon and Nancy (Howell) Reader; he was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, in 1813, and she in Pennsylvania, in 1818.