WILLIAM  SIMMS,  (deceased) was born January 25, 1814, in Buckinghamshire, England, and came to Canada in 1833, from thence to Edwards County, Ill, in 1836, and from there to Wayne County, Ill, in the spring of 1840, where he was united in marriage, in November of that year, to Mary Simms, daughter of William Simms, of England.  She came to Wayne County, Ill, in the spring of 1830, having been born May 16, 1819, in England.  They had eleven children, seven living, viz.,  Francis, John,  Henry P., Susannah, Edward, George and subject.  Mr. Simms was a member of the Union Trade Society of Canada, and owned at the time of his death 520 acres of land.  He was a shoe maker by trade, but was engaged in farming and stock-raising.  Politics, Democratic.  He died January 19, 1876, in Wayne County, Ill., and was buried in the Bovee Cemetery.