William Floyd Simmons

Census

Census Year	Name	Age	Location	Place of Birth	Education or Employment
1900	Simmons Willie	18, born Oct 1881	Pumpkin Bend Township, Woodruff county, Arkansas	Born in Arkansas, parents born in Tennessee and Arkansas.	Farm Laborer
1910	Simmons W.F.	26	Pumpkin Bend Township, Woodruff county, Arkansas	Born in Arkansas, parents born in Arkansas.	Farmer, General Farming
1920	Simmons W.F.	36	Pumpkin Bend Township, Woodruff county, Arkansas	Born in Arkansas, parents born in Tennessee.	Farmer, General Farming
1930	Simmons W.F.	46	Pumpkin Bend Township, Woodruff county, Arkansas	Born in Arkansas, parents born in Arkansas and Tennessee.	Farmer, General Farming

Marriage Record for William Simmons and Melvina Holt

State of Arkansas, County of Cross. W. F. Simmons Principal, Henry Holt as security, signed 18 Dec 1908. W. F. Simmons of McCrory in the county of Woodruff, state of Arkansas, and Miss M. V. Holt of ? in Cross, Arkansas, age 25, 18 Dec 1908. Marriage Certificate - 20 Dec 1908

Family Portrait

This is a picture of William Floyde Simmons, his wife Melvina Jane Holt-Simmons holding their daughter Lily Pauline Simmons (b 1909), William's 16 year old half-sister Ida Fryer, his 8 year old niece, Ola Guess (Gess/Guest), and his mother, Clara Smith Hawkins-Simmons-Fryer.

Pumpkin Bend, in Woodruff County, was a township full of people who owned 40 acres of land. They were very poor. Today, it is filled with rice fields as far as the eye can see. There are no more of the original houses left.

World War I Draft Registration Card

William Floyd Simmons, of McCrory, Woodruff, Arkansas, age 34, born 11-25-1883, white, farmer, medium height, medium build, brown hair, brown eyes. Vina Simmons of McCrory, Arkansas