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Simpson - Jones Cemetery, 65-3 Summary Report, page 9
Name: Dennis Simpson
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Information on Early Settlers of your county. I am a descendant of Dr. William Simpson, first white surgeon in Madison County, Alabama from Londonderry, Ireland, settled near Ditto's Landing in 1801. He and his wife Marguerite (McAlpine) Simpson were suppose to have been buried at Hobbs Island, but there is no tombstone marking their graves. There son, John Simpson is buried with several members of his family at Redstone Arsenal, including my great-grandfather Arthur Marcus Simpson, one of ten children of John and Margaret Ann (Dickson) Simpson. Margaret Dickson was a daughter of James and Kerlah (Wood) Dickson.
Janes Dickson was one of the 2-81 signers of the petiticn requesting the government to allow them to stay on Indian land in 1B19~7 Dr. Simpson's daughter Mary Simpson marriod the Hon. George W. McLeod, Justice of the Peace and Postmaster of Ditto's Landing. One of their daughters, Margaret McLeod married the Hon. David Campbell Humphreys, later US Justice of the Supreme Court for the District of Colombia, and famous for his stand against Alabama joining the Confederacy during the Civil War. After Dr. Simpson died in the springtime of 1816, his widow married the Hon. Hopkins Lacy, former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and attorney who represented both Andrew Jackson and John Coffee in several legal matters. Their daughter Martha Jane Cocke Lacy married Dr. Albert Russell, member of the same family who founded the Russell Erskine Hotel.
Entry made from 66.42.114.73
Referring URL: http://www.co.madlson.al.us/guest/
Additional information about the Simpson family history, including a statement that the marker to commemorate Dr. William Simpson was emplaced in 1988, is found in the insert below:
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