SIMMS CEMETERY

This small cemetery, located near Davis Crossing in St. Francois County, Missouri, near the crossroads where Old Irondale Road crosses BB Highway (T36N, R4E, Sec. 19), was copied and transcribed by Melanie Rickmar on May 2, 1988, and then re-copied by Virignia Snyder (deceased) March 1990.
The Cemetery is obscured by a grove of sassafras trees.  It is fenced but one side of the fence has been knocked down by cattle.  Most of the gravestones are broken and laying on the ground, hidden by weeds.  The inscriptions could be read, however, by placing the pieces of stones together. 

CHRISTOPHER
Chris Walton
Died
Febr. 4, 1885
Aged
89 Years
OUR FATHER

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BETSY
Betsy Walton
Died
Jan. 13, 1884
Aged
88 Years
OUR MOTHER

Infant Son of
W. H. & R. A.
Simms
Born
July 15, 1893
Died
Aug. 21, 1893

Raymond S. Simms
Born
June 23, 1892
Died
Aug. 21, 1912

In Memory of
Frances L.
Daughter of
H. L. & Mary Simms
May 21, 1857
Aug 15, 1865
8Y 2M 21D
"SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME"

Henry Lissom Simms
Born
Sept. 2, 1826
Departed this life
Nov. 2, 1888
(Masonic Emblem on Stone)
"BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHO DIE IN THE LORD FOR HENCEFORTH; YEA SAYETH THE SPIRIT, THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABORS."

Grover Simms
Son of T. J. & L.A. Simms
Born
August 3, 1882
Died
Aug. 17, 1897
"ROUND HIS LITTLE GRAVE WE LINGERED, TILL THE SETTING SUN WAS LOW.  FEELING ALL OUR HOPES WERE VANISHED WITH THE FLOWER WE CHERISHED SO."

In Memory of
Mary C. Simms
Wife of
H. L. Simms
Born Dec. 1830
Died Feb 1902
Aged 72Y 2M
"NO PAIN, NO GRIEF, NO ANXIOUS FEAR, CAN REACH OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING HERE."

Hattie Simms
Dau. of T J. & L.A. Simms
Born
Aug. 5, 1892
Died
Oct. 7, 1902
"ROUND HER LITTLE GRAVE WE LINGERED, TILL THE SETTING SUN WAS LOW.  FEELING ALL OUR HOPES WERE VANISHED WITH THE FLOWER WE CHERISHED SO."