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_Ebenezer SIMMONS ____|
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| |_Anne __________________|__________________________________________
_John SIMMONS _|
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| |_Elizabeth JONES _____|
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|--Robert SIMMONS
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| _Robert Andrew PICON _____________________
| _William Henry PICKENS _|_Esther Jane (Jeanne?) Benoit or BONNEAU _
| _Robert Pike PICKENS _|
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| | |_Margaret PIKE _________|__________________________________________
|_Ann PICKENS __|
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|_Miriam DAVIS ________|
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While waiting for spring rains daughter Jane met Colonel James Roulston, who was then living with his father Matthew on his farm abt 20 miles upriver in Jefferson Co. where the Nolichucky and the French Bend meet. They were married in 1801. Soon after the wedding, the rest of Jane's family, except for her brother John, went to LA. Colonel James Roulston and her brother John Simmons served in the war of 1812. John married Naomi Jered, daughter of Capt. William Jarad.