{"id":521,"date":"2017-12-13T23:43:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T23:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=521"},"modified":"2018-08-07T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:15:52","slug":"ancestor-54-absolum-simpkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=521","title":{"rendered":"Ancestor 54 Absolum Simpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageWrap\">\n<div id=\"personView\" class=\"personView\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"personViewPages\" data-tab-group=\"pages\">\n<div id=\"tabContentStory\" class=\"tabContent tabContentStory form tabActive active\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-hidden=\"false\" aria-labelledby=\"tabStory\">\n<div id=\"personPageStory\" class=\"personPage personPageStory\">\n<div class=\"lifeStory storyline \">\n<section class=\"lifeStorySec lifeStoryNarrative storylineHasTrail\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"con conHasArrow conHasArrowLeftTop narrativeCon\">\n<div class=\"conBody lifeStoryEvents\">\n<div id=\"narrativeText\" class=\"narrativeText\" data-placeholder-empty=\"Add a Biography to Personalize the LifeStory\" data-narrative-original=\"When Absalom Simpkins was born in 1793 in Montgomery, Virginia, his father, Robert, was 44 and his mother, Mercy, was 54. He married Frances &quot;Fanny&quot; Smith on December 21, 1824, in his hometown. They had ten children in 19 years. He died in July 1853 in Pulaski, Virginia, at the age of 60.\">\n<p>When Absalom Simpkins was born in 1793 in Montgomery, Virginia, his father, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=1004\">Robert Harrison Simpkins<\/a>, was 44 and his mother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=1008\">Martha Mercy Lawrence<\/a>, was 54.<\/p>\n<p>He married <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=524\">Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Smith<\/a> on December 21, 1824, in his hometown.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"ancGrid full768\">\n<div class=\"article ancCol w66\">\n<section class=\"con\">\n<div class=\"conBody\">\n<div id=\"recordData\" class=\"ancCol w66 full480\">\n<table class=\"table tableHorizontal tableHorizontalRuled\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Name:<\/th>\n<td><span class=\"srchHit\">Absalom Simpkins<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Gender:<\/th>\n<td>Male<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Marriage Date:<\/th>\n<td>21 Dec 1824<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Marriage Place:<\/th>\n<td>Montgomery County, Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Spouse:<\/th>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/search.ancestry.com\/cgi-bin\/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&amp;r=an&amp;db=FS1VirginiaMarriages&amp;indiv=try&amp;h=5880891\"> Fanny Smith <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>FHL Film Number:<\/th>\n<td>32633<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Reference ID:<\/th>\n<td>P 193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>They had nine children in 19 years.\u00a0 The oldest child was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=448\">Katherine &#8220;Kate&#8221; Simpkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He died in July 1853 in Pulaski, Virginia, at the age of 60.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Absalom Simpkins was born in 1793 in Montgomery, Virginia, his father, Robert Harrison Simpkins, was 44 and his mother, Martha Mercy Lawrence, was 54. He married Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Smith on December 21, 1824, in his hometown. Name: Absalom Simpkins Gender: Male Marriage Date: 21 Dec 1824 Marriage Place: Montgomery County, Virginia Spouse: Fanny Smith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancestor 54 Absolum Simpkins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}