Si and Sk names

Simpson

Merril Cole Simpson born in Collin County on November 30, 1926 when his parents Ollie and Mary Simpson lived on the Ed Cashon place. He went to school at the Enloe Grade School in 1934-1935 and then to Franklin in 1936 then back to Enloe for the rest of his school years. He worked with his parents on the farm thru 1946. They owned a farm but also went to West Texas during wheat harvest and helped pick cotton for other people. In 1947 worked at East Texas Motor Freight and helped farm thru 1949. In 1950 went to work for John Brumley, Curtis Brown and Frank Brown at Sinclair Service Station and Princeton Mercantile Grocery for about a year. Went to Dallas and worked at Vermont Marble Company thru 1951 then bought a gravel trick in 1952 drove for a year and went back to Vermont Marble and worked til June 1954. In Sept. of 1953 he met Peggy Ann Young born 7 miles Southwest of Plano near Renner. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Young built a home in Renner. Her parents moved their when Peggy was 6 months old. She lived most of her near Plano and Renner. On June 4, 1954 she was married to Merril Cole Simpson. We were married in my father's home in Allen, Texas at 7:30 p.m. on Friday by Bro. __ Terry. Our attendants were Frankie Hinton and Clarence Paysinger. We moved into an apartment in Richardson for one year. During this year Merril worked for Foremost Dairies in Dallas, Texas. In July 1955 we moved to Allen where we had a hew home built near her father. We lived there for four years and during this time Kathy Ann, Nancy Lois and Janet Carol were born. Merril did carpenter work in Dallas for Henry C. Beck & Company. In Jan 1958 bought an Humble Service Station on the southend of McKinney which he operated til Aug. 1958. At this time he bought a gravel truck and began working for Dye Trucking Company in Dallas.. In July 1959 we all moved to Rule, Texas for almost a year and then to Grand Prairie for almost a year. On June 12, 1961 we moved back to Collin County and into the home we now live in. We had our home built here. Since moving here we have had three more children, Ollie Merril, David Cole and Susan Beth. Merril worked for a few years for republic Aluminum & Big Dude Mfg in Richardson, Texas and Aero-Space Machine in Irving and part time farming. The last year or so we have farmed primarily. All our children are in school. Kathy grade 12, Nancy grade 9, Carol grace 8, Ollie Merril grade 6, David grade 3 and Susan grade 2. They all attend McKinney schools and during the summer help us truck farm. We raise produce to sell at the Dallas Farmers Market. Our main crops are okra, potatoes, onions & beets. The children earn money by working for us and enjoy the outdoors very much. Nancy, Kathy and Carol belong to the McKinney 4-H Club. We are all members of Grace Baptist Church in Lowry Crossing. Some people may remember it as Miligan Church just south of Holders Store. Merril is city councilman for the City of Lowry Crossing and Trustee for Grace Baptist Church. Peggy is public relations officer and sends the news into the newspapers in McKinney. We all love the farm and plan to continue to live here all long as it is possible.

Ollie Simpson was born at Brownwood, Texas on Nov. 1, 1889 and moved to Denton County at a very early age with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Simpson. At the age of 20 he met Mary Lindy Davidson and a year later on June 4, 1911 they were married in a double ceremony with Sam and Ola Clements. In the Higgins Community on the George Bridgefarmer Farm where we lived with her parents. Mr. and Thomas Jefferson Davidson, and were married by Bro. Duffie Wallace. To this union were born 10 children. When they were first married they moved to Nevada and in 1913 moved southeast of McKinney and lived a year then back to Nevada to the same house they had lived in earlier on the Jessie Vaughn farm. A daughter Odie Mae was born while living there. In 1915 they move to the Ben Dugger place where another daughter was born Rosie Lee. In 1918 they lived on the Sid Thomas place where another daughter Lillie Katherine was born. In 1918 Ollie & Mary & 3 children + Mr. and Mrs. Sid Thomas & baby went to Farwell, New Mexico/Texas in a 1918 Model T. It took them 13 days to make the round trip. They went thru the Alva Gardens.
   In the fall of 1919 they moved to the Largent Place and before moving in the fall of 1922 another daughter Margaret Moyell was born. They moved to the Ed Cashon place, maybe known as the Duncan farm where a baby boy that died as an infant, a girl Effie Faye, a boy Merril Cole and a set of twins a boy and a girl who died as infants were born. They lived and worked there until 1931 when they moved to the Wood Mallow farm in the Milligan community where another daughter Geneva Ruth was born. They left there in the fall of 1933 to go to the Eddie Finch place about 4 miles east of McKinney on the Mill Road turn left at the Walter Gist place on Drake Hill and go down in the creek bottom.
  In fall of 1935 move to northwest of McKinney to the Brimir Farm in the Roland community til the fall of 1936. In 1936 they moved back to the Eddie Finch place and bought 4.3 acres. He worked on the railroad and his boss was Rex Douglas of McKinney, and did general farm work and carpentry until 1941. Then started truck farming milked cows and sold milk. In 1941 he built a new house for himself. The fall of 1947 they moved east of McKinney to the Ed West farm and bought it where his wife Mary still lives. All through the years he worked for different people and on different places other than his own. Some of these people and jobs he held were thrashing, farming, dairy, railroad, truck farming & carpenter. He was very active on his own farm until his retirement in 1957 due to bad health. He died on Nov. 7, 1964 at the age of 75 years and 7 days. He is survived by his wife and 6 children. One daughter Rosie Lee Grass was killed in an accident on July 2, 1971. Mary his wife will be 77 on April 29. She is still able to take care of herself. Her son Merril lives on the same place and has 6 children who keep her company when no in school. Ollie is buried at Wilson Chapel in Lowry Crossing.

                                                The Washington Simpson family
   The Washington Simpson family settled in Grayson County in the early 1850s, near the Collin-Grayson line near Elmont. Part of his land was in Collin County but the home stood on the Grayson side. The family came here from Simpson County, Kentucky. As soon as the family was settled, Washington Simpson built and ran a state coach inn one mile south of Elmont and operated it all through the Civil War. The inn was called the Buckhorn Tavern, and from this came his nick-name, Buckhorn Simpson. He served at one time as Sheriff of Grayson  County. 
   John Simpson came with his father, Washington Simpson, from Kentucky. He lived most of his life on the farm they settled. He served in the Confederate  Army for the duration. After the war he operated a freight service with wagons and oxen from Sherman to Jefferson until the early 1870s.

    Walter Simpson, son of John Simpson, was born in 1873 between the communities of Elmont and Warden. He  married Miss Corda McLain in 1902. They lived for six years from 1903 to 1909 in the state of Washington and Oregon, coming back to Texas and Collin County in 1909. Corda was the daughter of James F. McLain, who had come to Collin County from Jasper, Alabama soon after the Civil War. James McLain had served in the Confederate army, joining at age 17, and upon returning from the war found his family all lost, so he came to Collin County to make a home. He was a farmer and a land owner and lived in the Kelly Community and in Anna until his death in 1929. He was married to Miss Phoebe Miller in Collin by the Elder R. C. Horn.

   Ersell G. (Pat) Simpson, son of Walter and Corda McLain Simpson, was born in 1906 in Dayton, Washington but lived most of his life in Collin County. He attended school in a variety of area schools - McKinney, Anna, Celina, Denton, Stoney Point, Gunter and Kelly. He graduated from Celina and attended North Texas State Teachers College (North Texas State) and taught for a year at Friendship School near Pilot Point. He joined the Marines and served for two years. While in the military he played on the Marine basketball team and spent much of his military life traveling around playing basketball. He returned to Texas in 1932.
   Ersell accepted the part in a local operetta where he played the part of Pat O'Reily. He was called "Pat" after that. He married Georgia Douglas, daughter of pioneers of Grayson County, in 1932. They had one son Bill and two grandsons.
   He taught and coached from 1943-45, first in Anna and then in Farmersville. He is best remembered in for his role as manager of the McKinney Chamber of Commerce, a pot he filled for 20 years until his retirement in 1965. He joined the McKinney Lions Club  and served as president in 1956-57 and then became secretary/treasurer. After his first wife died, he married Polly Fagg. He was named McKinney Citizen of the Year in 1976.

Pat Simpson
   Services for Mr. Pat Simpson, 87, of McKinney, who died Wednesday at the VA Hospital in Dallas, will be 2 p.m. Friday at First Christian Church in McKinney with Dr. Bobby W. Cook officiating. Burial will be in Ridgeview Memorial Park under the direction of Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Directors.
   Mr. Simpson was born on Nov. 3, 1906 in Dayton, Wash., the son of Walter and Corda McLain Simpson. He was a retired manager of the McKinney Chamber of Commerce Church in McKinney and the McKinney Lions Club.
   He is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Bill and Marcia Simpson of McKinney; his stepson J. V. Gaff of McKinney; his grandson and wife Richard and Ann Simpson of McKinney; his grandson Jimmy Simpson of McKinney; two great-granddaughter, Stephanie and Lori Clark; his brother, Dr. Roscoe E. Simpson of San Angelo; and two sisters Wilma Miller of Celina and Sue Smith of Dripping Springs.