Sarah Simmons

Sarah Sanford Simmons

Birth: 20 August 1796, Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island

Death: 26 August 1842, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Father: Ephraim Sanford, b. 28 May 1752, Tiverton, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America; d. 21 Oct 1823, Tiverton, Newport, R.I.; son of Restcomb Sanford and Content Manchester.

Mother: Rhoda Brownell Simmons, b. 2 May 1751, Little Compton, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America; d. 21 Oct 1823, Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island.; dau. of Peleg Simmons and Mary Brownell.

Spouse: Pardon Simmons, b. 1 Sep 1791, Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island; d. 5 Mar 1870, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts; son of Ichabod Simmons and Anna Thomas.

Children:

• Mercy C Simmons, b. 4 Feb 1815, Tiverton, R.I.; d. 20 Jan 1865, New Bedford, Bristol Co, Mass; m. 29 May 1836, Fall River, Mass, Hiram S Handy.
• Eber C Simmons, b. cir 1817, Tiverton, R.I.; d. 18 Feb 1895, Dartmouth, Mass; m. 8 July 1839, Dartmouth Mass, Penelope Brownell.
• Maria R. Simmons, b. Dec 1820, Tiverton, R.I.; d. 9 Sep 1909 (aged 88) Marion, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; m. Asa Cook.
• Phebe Ann Simmons, b. 1823, Dartmouth,Mass; d. 26 May 1904, Taunton, Bristol, Mass; m. 11 Nov 1849, Tiverton, R.I.,Thomas W Lewis.
• Pardon T Simmons Jr, b. 26 May 1825, Taunton, Bristol Co, Mass; d. 18 May 1899, Dartmouth, Mass; m. Mary Louise Hedge.
• Mary A Simmons, b. 20 Aug 1827, Dartmouth, Mass; d.13 Jan 1914, New Bedford, Mass; m. 1872, Elijah R Lewis.
• Sarah Ann Simmons, b. 11 Mar 1829, Dartmouth, Mass; d. 4 Jan 1909, Westport,Mass; m. 1 Jan 1849, Westport, Mass, Bradford Coggeshall.
• George Albert Simmons, b. 12 Apr 1832, Dartmouth, Mass; d. 1 Aug 1921 (aged 89) New Bedford, Bristol Co, Mass; m. 1858, Abby A Manchester.

Burial: Maple Grove Cemetery, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Sources:

The Coggeshalls in America; genealogy of the descendants of John Coggeshall of Newport, with a brief notice of their English antecedents, compiled by Charles Pierce Coggeshall and Thellwell Rusell Coggeshall, p. 329.

Vital Records of Westport, MA

Sarah Sanford Simmons memorial - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85665854/sarah-simmons