Wednesday, January 2, 2013


Absalom2 Simpson (1793-1825)
(Hugh1 Simpson)

Absalom Simpson, son of Hugh Simpson and Mary Anna Long, was born 23 March 1793 in Pendleton Co., SC.
The family moved to Kentucky then to Davidson Co., TN. Probably in the year of 1810, the family moved and settled in Warren Co., KY.
Absalom is probably listed in the household of Hugh Simpson enumerated in the 1810 federal census of Warren County, KY.
Free White Males
Under 10
1
Elias (1802)
10 to 16
2
Absalom (1793)
Isaac (1799)
16 to 26
2
Elijah (1789)
John (1791)
45 & Over
1
Hugh (1761)
Free White Females
10 to 16
1
Anna (1797)
16 to 26
1
Mary (1790)
45 & Over
1
Mary (1761)

Absalom died 7 August 1825 in Texas. His father Hugh was an administrator handling Absalom’s personal estate in the Warren Co., KY court.

Sources
1810 U.S. census, Hugh Simpson household, Warren Co., KY, page 253, line 1; National Archives micropublication M252, roll 8.
Family vital records in the Isaac Simpson Family Bible, In the Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, (Brattleborough, VT: J. Holbrook’s, 1817). Dennis L. Simpson, owner, 1992.


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