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Topic: Pehr Simonsson/ Peter Simpson in Labette Co.
Conf: Labette County Queries, Msg: 105614
From: Holley Izard (holleyizard@yahoo.com)
Date: 7/28/2007 05:29 PM

I am so excited to find this message. I didn't know there were any other Simpson descendents. Lydia Simpson Sullivan Clausner was my great-grandmother. Her daughter, Thelma Sullivan Holley, was my grandmother who actually raised me. My 83 year old aunt, still living, is named for Alfreda. I remember Lydia, Lillie and Freda from childhood. (I'm almost 65.)

I had never seen the Swedish version of Peter and Mary's names until your posting. In the late 1950s, we visited "Aunt Freda and Uncle Marion" Canney in Mound Valley, Ks. She showed me the Simpson Family Bible and I copied down the names, birth and death dates of the children. I have Manda's death date as June 1875, which must have come from the Family Bible, so she died within a month of her birth. I have a total of 9 children, including Gusta who died in Sweden and Rosa who is just older than Alfreda. She married Elmer Hart and lived in Missouri.

Hoping to hearing from you. Holley Izard