Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

PETER SIMPSON was born in Ireland, and married Martha Moore near
Philadelphia, Penn.  About 1801 he came to Jessamine County, Ky., and
settled on Hickman Creek, five miles east of Nicholasville, the present
residence of James M. Gregg.  He was the father of eight children: Samuel,
John, William, James, Robert, Patsey, Betsey and Margaret.  Samuel
Simpson, the eldest son, married Fannie Bourne, and died December 24, 1875,
leaving two children: Martha and Robert.  John Simpson, the second son,
married Ailey Embry, and had five children born to him: Richard, William,
Edwin, Martha (Mrs. Thomas K. Salter) and Elizabeth (Mrs. William Hood).
William Simpson, Peter's third son, was born in Virginia in 1795, and in
1827 married Miss Letitia Young, daughter of Marion and Lydia (Glover)
Young, who bore him the following children: Elizabeth (Mrs. James E.
Beasley), Henrietta (Mrs. William McDowell), Martha (Mrs. Alexander Lusk),
Mary (deceased), William, James, Minor, and infant not named and John
(the last three are dead).  The fourth son of Peter Simpson, James, was
never married.  Robert, the fifth son of Peter Simpson, married Miss
Sedonia Young, and had born to him seven children, as follows: Minor, John,
Matthew, Robert, Mary (Mrs. T. E. Walker), Lydia and Florence.  Patsey,
the sixth child and oldest daughter of Peter Simpson, married Lindsey
Mays of Missouri, and had seven children: John, Simpson, Latham, Margaret,
Sarah, Mary (Mrs. Latham) and Martha (Mrs. Hunter),  Betsey Simpson,
Peter's seventh child, married James Bibb and became the mother of six
children: Benjamin, Robert, Richard, Rowland, Catherine (Mrs. A. B.
Robinson) and Margaret.  The youngest child and third daughter of Peter
Simpson, Margaret, was married to Rowland Flournoy.  William Simpson, son
of William and Letitia (Young) Simpson, was born March 19, 1837, in
Jessamine County, and is the only male representative of his family
living in the county; he was educated at Bethel Academy in Nicholasville,
remaining in the household until 1862, then located six miles east of
Nicholasville, where he remained until 1871 and then purchased his present
place of residence, comprising 650 acres on the Harrodsburg and Lexington
Pike, and engaged in general farming.  December 12, 1861, he married Miss
Amanda H., daughter of George and Parthenia (Walker) Cleveland; to this
union have been born nine children, viz.: William (deceased), George, James,
William (deceased), John, Weldon, Cleveland, Paul and Robert.  The family
are members of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.

Simpson Gregg Bourne Embry Salter Hood Young Glover Beasley Cleveland
McDowell Lusk Walker Latham Hunter Robinson Bibb Flournoy Walker Moore
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