Name |
Friench Simpson [1, 2, 3, 4] |
Birth |
13 Feb 1848 |
Union Mills, Fairfax Co., Virginia |
Gender |
Male |
Census |
1850 |
Fairfax Co., Virginia |
Image | | Transcript | Ln | Hhold | Given | Surname | Age | BirthDate | Gender | Race | Occupation | BirthPlace |
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23 | 37 | James H | Simpson | 31 | 1819 | Male | White | Farmer | Virginia | 24 | 37 | Emily | Simpson | 28 | 1822 | Female | White | | Virginia | 25 | 37 | French | Simpson | 2 | 1848 | Male | White | | Virginia |
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Census |
1860 |
Fairfax Co., Virginia |
Image | | Transcript | Ln | Hhold | Given | Surname | Age | BirthDate | Gender | Race | Occupation | BirthPlace |
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19 | 17 | James H | Simpson | 41 | 1819 | Male | White | Farmer | Virginia | 20 | 17 | Emily | Simpson | | | Female | White | | Virginia | 21 | 17 | French | Simpson | 12 | 1848 | Male | White | | Virginia | 22 | 17 | V H | Simpson | 10 | 1850 | Female | White | | Virginia | 23 | 17 | Fannie | Simpson | 8 | 1852 | Female | White | | Virginia | 24 | 17 | Helen | Simpson | 5 | 1855 | Female | White | | Virginia | 25 | 17 | Emma J | Simpson | | | Female | White | | Virginia | 26 | 17 | E | Buckley | 40 | 1820 | Male | White | | Virginia | 27 | 17 | M A | Ish | 22 | 1838 | Male | White | Student of Medicine | Virginia | 28 | 17 | Robt J | Simpson | 30 | 1830 | Male | White | Physician | Virginia |
NARA Pub: M653 Page: 3 Enumerated: 18 June 1860 |
Census |
1870 |
Colorado Co., Texas |
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Image | | Transcript | Ln | Hhold | Given | Surname | Age | BirthDate | Gender | Race | Occupation | BirthPlace |
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31 | 171 | James | Simpson | 57 | 1813 | Male | White | Farmer | Virginia | 32 | 171 | Emily | Simpson | 50 | 1820 | Female | White | Keeping House | Virginia | 33 | 171 | Frank | Simpson | 22 | 1848 | Male | White | Farmer | Virginia | 34 | 171 | Hattie V | Simpson | 19 | 1851 | Female | White | | Virginia | 35 | 171 | Fannie | Simpson | 17 | 1853 | Female | White | | Virginia | 36 | 171 | Helen | Simpson | 15 | 1855 | Female | White | | Virginia | 37 | 171 | Emily J | Simpson | 13 | 1857 | Female | White | | Virginia | 38 | 171 | Lewis | Parker | 35 | 1835 | Male | Black | Farm Laborer | Virginia | 39 | 171 | George | Prince | 16 | 1854 | Male | Black | Farm Laborer | Virginia | 40 | 171 | Bennie | Prince | 15 | 1855 | Male | Black | Farm Laborer | Virginia |
NARA Pub: M593 Roll: 1580 Page: 48A Enumerated: 6 Sept. 1870 |
Census |
1880 |
Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas |
Image | | Transcript | Ln | Hhold | Given | Surname | Relation | Gender | Race | BirthDate | Age | Status | BirthPlace | BirthPlace of Father | BirthPlace of Mother | Occupation | Street |
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48 | 139 | Friench | Simpson | Self (Head) | Male | White | Abt 1848 | 32 | Married | Virginia | Virginia | Virginia | | Preston Street | 49 | 139 | Jennie | Simpson | Wife | Female | White | Abt 1852 | 28 | Married | Mississippi | Tennessee | North Carolina | | Preston Street | 50 | 139 | Friench | Simpson | Son | Male | White | Abt 1878 | 2 | Single | Texas | Virginia | Mississippi | | Preston Street |
ED: 046 Enumerated: 5 June 1880 |
Census |
1920 |
Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas |
Image | | Transcript | Ln | Hhold | Given | Surname | Relation | Gender | Race | BirthDate | Age | Status | BirthPlace | BirthPlace of Father | BirthPlace of Mother | Immigration Year | Occupation | Veteran | Street |
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36 | 256 | Friench | Simpson | Head | Male | White | 1849 | 71 | Married | Virginia | Virginia | Virginia | | Agent | | North Main Street | 37 | 256 | Jennie H | Simpson | Wife | Female | White | 1853 | 67 | Married | Mississippi | Virginia | North Carolina | | | | North Main Street | 38 | 256 | James H | Simpson | Son | Male | White | 1885 | 35 | Single | Texas | Virginia | Mississippi | | Cashier | | North Main Street | 39 | 256 | Andrew J | Harbert | Brother-in-law | Male | White | 1843 | 77 | Widowed | Tennessee | Virginia | North Carolina | | | | North Main Street |
NARA Pub: T625 Roll: 1828 Page: 10A ED: District 0112 Enumerated: Feb. 4 - Feb. 5 |
Military Service |
He served as a private in Company A of the 13th Texas Volunteer Infantry for the CSA at the end of the war. He was later a lawyer, banker, poet, and state senator.
This is from the Handbook of Texas On-line:. "Friench Simpson, businessman, author, and public official, son of James Hendley and Emily (Dye) Simpson, was born in Fairfax County, Virginia, on February 13, 1848. His early training was at the Leesburg Academy. He arrived in Texas in 1862 and continued his education in the common schools of the state. In 1865 he enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry. He subsequently returned to his family's home in Lavaca County and engaged in farming and planting from 1866 to 1873. [5] |
Death |
25 Mar 1923 |
Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas |
Burial |
Hallettsville City Cemetery, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas [6] |
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Origins  |
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Patriarch & Matriarch |
John Simpson b. during the 1660s d. Abt 1708, Charles Co., Maryland (3 x Great Grandfather)  Ann Simpson b. 17 Mar 1699 d. 4 Jan 1801, East Windsor Twp., Mercer Co., New Jersey (Age 101 years) (3 x Great Grandmother)  |
Notes |
- This is the homepage for the Friench Simpson Memorial Library in Hallettsville: http://www.hallettsvillelibrary.org.
According to Bill Stein's history of Colorado County, Texas:
"Simpson was writing poetry as early as 1864, when he was sixteen and living at Oakland. His first known published poem, "Dolce Far Niente," appeared in the Colorado Citizen on July 23, 1874. Later in the year the Citizen published another Simpson poem, "A Study of Nature." By then, he had secured employment with the Texas State Geological Survey, a job which afforded him the opportunity to travel widely within the state, and to write brief accounts of his travels for the Citizen."
This is from the Handbook of Texas On-line:
"Friench Simpson, businessman, author, and public official, son of James Hendley and Emily (Dye) Simpson, was born in Fairfax County, Virginia, on February 13, 1848. His early training was at the Leesburg Academy. He arrived in Texas in 1862 and continued his education in the common schools of the state. In 1865 he enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry. He subsequently returned to his family's home in Lavaca County and engaged in farming and planting from 1866 to 1873.
"In 1874-75 he served as a member of the Texas State Geological Survey (see GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS OF TEXAS). In 1877 he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law. He married Jennie Harbert of Columbus on February 11, 1877. In 1888 Simpson became a banker at the Simpson Bank of Columbus, founded by his father fifteen years earlier, and upon his father's death in 1889, he assumed ownership of the establishment with partner Carey Shaw. Simpson also helped organize the First National Bank of Hallettsville, where he remained a cashier for twenty-five years. A slump in the local economy in 1913 placed the Simpson Bank in an unsound financial position, and it was forced into bankruptcy and closure in October 1914. The Simpson Ranch in Lavaca County was sold by the bank's trustees in partial satisfaction of creditors.
"In 1884 Simpson was elected mayor of Columbus. He represented District Eighteen, which comprised Lavaca, Colorado, and Fayette counties, in the Senate of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Texas legislatures, 1893-95. He was a devout Methodist, director of the Masonic Orphans' Home in Fort Worth from 1890 to 1900, and grand treasurer of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas in 1900. In the same year he published a volume called A Study of Nature and Other Poems (1900) and later published A Paraphrase of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam (1909). From 1917 to 1919 he served as chairman of the Lavaca County Selective Service Board. Simpson died at his home in Hallettsville on March 23, 1923.
"BIBLIOGRAPHY: Colorado County Historical Commission, Colorado County Chronicles from the Beginning to 1923 (2 vols., Austin: Nortex, 1986). Davis Foute Eagleton, comp. and ed., Writers and Writings of Texas (New York: Broadway, 1913). Members of the Legislature of the State of Texas from 1846 to 1939 (Austin: Texas Legislature, 1939). Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1." [5, 7]
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Person ID |
I3905 |
Last Modified |
9 Feb 2025 |
Spouse / Partner |
Virginia Ann (Jennie) Harbert b. 19 May 1852, Tunica Co., Mississippi  d. 23 May 1935, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas (Age 83 years)
Marriage |
11 Feb 1877 |
Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas |
Children |
+ | 1. Dr. Friench Simpson, Jr. b. 7 Oct 1877, Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas  d. 20 Aug 1950 (Age 72 years) |
+ | 2. Stephen Harbert Simpson b. 29 Jul 1879, Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas  d. 25 Dec 1960, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas (Age 81 years) |
+ | 3. Vera Simpson b. 17 Jul 1882 d. 11 Nov 1960, San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas (Age 78 years) |
+ | 4. James Hendley Simpson, Sr. b. 19 Jun 1884, Columbus, Colorado Co., Texas  d. 23 May 1977, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas (Age 92 years) |
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Family ID |
F2692 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
9 Feb 2025 |
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