1. John Auguste SIMMS was born circa 1824 in Gillespie, Texas. He married Mary Ann BELTZHOOVER circa 1849 in Gillespie. He died before 1850.
Mary Ann BELTZHOOVER, daughter of Samuel BELTZHOOVER (1803-c. 1836) and Susan RHERER (1812-1885), was born on 15 October 1830 in Big Springs. Cumberland Co., PA, USA. She was christened "24/3/1833 or 35" in United Presbyterian Church, Big Spring, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. She married Douglas Alexander MURRAY on 8 November 1855 in (First Evangelical Lutheran Church) Carlyle, Pennsylvania. She died after 1880.