1856-1930·St. Gallen, Altstaetten, New York City, the Bronx, and Fresh Pond Crematory
St. Gallen-born Swiss immigrant, furrier, and Furriers' Union officer who left Switzerland during legal proceedings over his property and rebuilt his life in New York City.
c. 1780-1850·Perthshire, Scotland; Greenock; Quebec and Montreal; Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Canada West
Perthshire tenant and Beckwith settler whose records trace a move from the Breadalbane estate on Loch Tay to an established farm family in Lanark County, Canada West.
1887–1970·Tiszabezdéd, Hungary; Grenfell, Hazelwood, Bekevar, and Kipling, Saskatchewan
Hungarian-born farmer who came to Saskatchewan with his family in 1903, established a farm south of Kipling, raised a large family with Borbála Fónagy, and remained active in the district’s Hungarian church and community life.
1897–1918·Tiszabezdéd, Hungary; Hamburg, Germany; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Hazelwood and Bekevar, Saskatchewan
Hungarian-born immigrant who came to Saskatchewan as a young child, married Lőrinc Debreceni, became the mother of three children, and died at twenty-one during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
c.1786–before 1845·Moneylawn and Garrynew, County Wexford
Irish farmer and leaseholder of Moneylawn and later Garrynew, County Wexford; strongly inferred son of William Davis Senior; husband of Catherine Butler; father of Joseph Henry Davis and part of the Davis family that emigrated to Ontario.
1819–1902·County Wexford, Ireland to Hastings County, Ontario
Schoolteacher and farmer — the five-year-old named as a life in the 1824 Garrynew lease, who carried the Davis line from County Wexford to Hastings County, Ontario.
1881-1973·Maynooth and Hastings County, Ontario; Prince Albert, Shellbrook, Birch Hills, Fenton, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Charles Elijah "C. E." Davis was an Ontario-born farmer's son who moved west to Saskatchewan, built a life around horses, livery barns, farming, public service, and community events, and became the father of Grace Davis Simpson, the researcher's paternal grandmother.
1915–2001·Shellbrook and Birch Hills, Saskatchewan; Saskatoon; Brantford, Ontario; Phoenix, Arizona
Grace Merle Lorraine Davis was a Saskatchewan teacher from the Davis family of Birch Hills who married Lowell Simpson, raised a family through wartime and rural teaching years, served Shellbrook schools for decades, and remained rooted in Shellbrook until her death in 2001.
1922-1969·Birch Hills, Saskatchewan; R.C.A.F. service overseas; Montreal; Calgary; and Birch Hills Cemetery
Charles Gordon Goodwin "Pat" Davis was a son of Charles Elijah Davis and Emily Robina Elizabeth Campbell, an R.C.A.F. pilot and prisoner of war in the Second World War, a McGill-trained civil engineer, and a Birch Hills native whose life was cut short in 1969.
Collateral relative in the Davis / Campbell family: Pat Davis was a son of Charles Elijah Davis and Emily Robina Elizabeth Campbell and a younger brother of Grace Davis Simpson.
1788-1844·Sussex County, Delaware; Pickaway County, Ohio; Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Daughter of Abel Dutton and Priscilla Cade, later the second wife of Clement Simpson, whose life followed the Simpson family from Delaware through Ohio to Indiana.
c.1800-before 1850·Lincoln County, North Carolina, and Rhea County, Tennessee
Rachel Falls was the wife of Robert Ferguson of Lincoln County, North Carolina, and Rhea County, Tennessee, and the mother of the older Ferguson children, including James, Sarah, Levi, and Elizabeth Ferguson; indirect inheritance and family-cluster evidence strongly supports her as a daughter of James Falls.
c.1790-1860·Lincoln County, North Carolina; Rhea County, Tennessee
Robert Ferguson was a North Carolina-born farmer who settled in Rhea County, Tennessee, married Rachel Falls, raised a family whose children later dispersed into Missouri and Kansas, and died in 1860 amid debt proceedings that led to the sale of his land.
c.1822-before 1876·Rhea County, Tennessee; Douglas County, Kansas; and Johnson County, Missouri
James Ferguson was a son of Robert Ferguson and Rachel Falls, the older brother of Levi Ferguson, and a Johnson County, Missouri farmer whose records help explain the close Ferguson-Hornsby family network.
c.1826-1878·Rhea County, Tennessee; Matamoros, Mexico; Lavaca, Texas; Barry and Johnson counties, Missouri; Douglas County, Kansas
Levi Ferguson was a Tennessee-born Mexican War veteran, early Free-State Kansas settler, farmer, and orchardist whose life crossed the Mexican War, Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War border crisis, and the farming depression of the 1870s.
1888-1989·Kansas; Galena and Fairview, Oklahoma; Herbert, Leacross, Tisdale, and Nipawin, Saskatchewan; Enid, Oklahoma
Myrtie M. Ferguson connected the Ferguson, Rippey, and Nicholson families and carried a large household through repeated moves between Oklahoma and Saskatchewan.
An Iowa-born Hethcot daughter, wife of Thomas Nelson Simpson, and mother of a large Simpson household whose records trace the family from Iowa and Nebraska into Saskatchewan.
1748–1826·Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware
A daughter and residuary heir of Matthew Hilford who married John Simpson and spent her documented adult life in Mispillion Hundred, with her identity preserved through probate, deeds, estate litigation, censuses, and a family-informed biography of her grandson.
1880-1957·Mercer County, Missouri; Fairview and Elmot, Oklahoma; Herbert, Tisdale, and Nipawin, Saskatchewan; Enid, Oklahoma
Leonard Isaiah Nicholson was a Missouri-born farmer, auctioneer, rural businessman, and Saskatchewan settler whose life moved repeatedly across the Oklahoma-Canada border.
c.1845-1916·Clark County, Kentucky; Reno County, Kansas; Woods and Major Counties, Oklahoma; Russell County, Kansas
John Isaac Rippey was a Kentucky-born farmer whose life carried the Rippey family from Clark County through Kansas and Oklahoma, with records directly identifying Elizabeth Rippey as his mother while leaving his father unresolved.
1859-1931·New York City; Baltimore; Philadelphia; Manhattan and Queens, New York
Sarah "Sadie" Simmons was a New York-born daughter of English Jewish immigrants whose later life under the Tabor name became central to identifying Mildred Elizabeth Tabor's parents.
c. 1712–1774/1775·Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware
A Mispillion Hundred yeoman whose tax, land, and probate records directly identify him as a son of William Simpson, with Y-DNA independently corroborating the documented paternal line.
c. 1728–before 13 June 1765·Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware
A Mispillion Hundred landholder, son and executor of William Simpson, whose widow, five children, and difficult-to-divide estate are documented in probate, land, and Orphans’ Court records.
1750–1819·Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware
A Mispillion Hundred landholder whose family, property, and later estate history are documented through probate, deeds, tax lists, censuses, court reports, and a family-informed biography of his grandson.
about 1778-1838·Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware; Pickaway County, Ohio; family later in Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Clement Simpson was a Delaware-born member of the Mispillion Hundred Simpson family who moved to Ohio, where records place him in the Pickaway County community before his widow and children continued west into Indiana.
An Iowa-born Simpson descendant whose records trace a move from Dallas County, Iowa, through Nebraska sales and land ventures, to farming and family care in Saskatchewan.
Electrician, farmer's son, wartime signals trainee, Shellbrook businessman, and grandson of Thomas Nelson Simpson, whose life carried the Simpson family from Nebraska into twentieth-century Saskatchewan.
c. 1714-1748·Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware
A short-lived Mispillion Hundred taxpayer whose widow's probate account identifies his father and whose surviving estate records reveal no documented children.
Indiana-born daughter of the Woods family, wife of Nelson Simpson, and mother of the Simpson children who carried the family from Iowa to Phelps County, Nebraska.
