{"id":3311,"date":"2022-01-10T17:26:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:26:11","slug":"simmons-benjamin-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/simmons-benjamin-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Simmons, Benjamin C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Benjamin C. Simmons<\/strong>, a teacher residing at Double Bridges, Tenn., was born in<br \/>\nHardeman County, Tenn., August 23, 1838, and is the fifth child of a family of<br \/>\nfour sons and two daughters born to Willoughby D. and Maria (Brady) Simmons,<br \/>\nand is of French-Scotch descent. His father was born in Halifax County, N.<br \/>\nC., in 1802, and came to Tennessee in 1836, settling in Gibson County, near<br \/>\nTrenton. A year later he moved to Hardeman County and in 1849 to Fayette<br \/>\nCounty, where he died March 16, 1855. The mother was born in Edgecombe<br \/>\nCounty, N. C., and died in Hardeman County, Tenn., in 1843. Our subject was<br \/>\nraised on a farm, and after attending the schools in the county entered<br \/>\nMadison College, at Spring Creek, Madison Co., Tenn.; then took a course at<br \/>\nLeddin&#8217;s Commercial College, at Memphis, Tenn., and from the time he left<br \/>\ncollege until 1868, he followed book-keeping; then commenced teaching, which<br \/>\nhe still continues. He enlisted in the Confederate Army, Ninth Tennessee<br \/>\nInfantry, and served four years; was in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro,<br \/>\nPerryville and Chickamauga; was captured several time, but only held a<br \/>\nprisoner a short time. He was wounded four times at Chickamauga and was<br \/>\nparoled at Atlanta at the close of the war. He was married in Fayette County<br \/>\nJuly 10, 1872, to Miss Emma Nevills, a daughter of Andrew Nevills, a farmer.<br \/>\nTwo daughters were born to this union: Rhea, born November 12, 1876, and Oma<br \/>\nIola, born July 12, 1878. Mrs. Simmons was born in Hardeman County, October<br \/>\n15, 1855. Mr. Simmons is a Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for<br \/>\nJefferson Davis, of the Confederate States, and the next for Horace Greeley.<br \/>\nHe is a member of the F. &amp; A. M., the K. of H. and of the G. C., and of the<br \/>\nBaptist Church. He owns 165 acres of fine land, his residence being at Double<br \/>\nBridges, fifteen miles north of Ripley, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin C. Simmons, a teacher residing at Double Bridges, Tenn., was born in Hardeman County, Tenn., August 23, 1838, and is the fifth child of a family of four sons and two daughters born to Willoughby D. and Maria (Brady) <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/simmons-benjamin-c\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-simmons"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}