FIFTH GENERATION

42. Mary Catherine SIMMONS (1) was born on Jun 21 1860 in Magnolia Township, Arkansas (Columbia).(2) She died on Feb 9 1935.(2) She was buried in Babb Cemetery, Union Co, AR. She has reference number 94.

She was married to James M. JOHNSON on Jan 17 1883 in Magnolia Township, Arkansas (Columbia). (2) James M. JOHNSON (1) was born on Oct 10 1843. (2) He died on Aug 8 1883. He was buried in Babb Cemetery, Union Co, AR. 

child+81 i. James M. JOHNSON.

She was married to James Granderson PEACE (son of Hartwell Meacham PEACE and Catherine Frances SMITH) on Nov 20 1884 in Magnolia, AR (Columbia). James Granderson PEACE(1) was born on Feb 2 1845 in Alabama (Limestone). He died on Mar 21 1904. He was buried in Babb Cemetery, Union Co, AR. 

James Granderson Peace is the possessor of an estate comprising 880 acres, of which 150 acres are under cultivation, yielding average crops. This farm is exceptionally well kept, and shows that it has been under the control of an enterprising, energetic and intelligent man. Mr. Peace has a good steam cotton-gin and grist mill, the work of the former being about four bales of cotton per day, and this, in connection with his farming operations, brings him in a handsome sum annually. He was born in Limestone County, Alabama, February 2, 1845, the fourth of ten children born to H. M. (Hartwell Meacham) and Catherine Frances (Smith) Peace, who natives of Alabama, and moved to Union County, Arkansas, in 1855, with the idea that the West offered better inducements for themselves and children, so far as the accumulation of worldly goods was concerned, and time has proven this for, prior to their deaths, which took place in 1883, they were comfortably fixed. Mr. Peace was a Democrat, an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and always took an active part in religious affairs. James Granderson Peace received a limited early education, owing to the fact that the war broke out just at the time when he should have been devoting himself to his studies. In 1863, he left the parental roof to take up arms in defense of the Confederate cause, and became a member of the Fifteenth Arkansas Regiment, under Capt. Matthews of El Dorado, and served under him until the close of the war, taking part in the battle of Port Hudson, where he was captured, being paroled shortly after. After Lee's surrender, her returned to his home in Union County, and by industry and good management has become on the wealth farmer of this section. He was married, in 1884, to Mrs. Mary (Simmons) Johnston, she being born in Columbia County to one of the old and esteemed citizens of this section. Mr. Peace has been constable of Garner Township for four years, and has filled the position of school director for eight or ten years. He is a Democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and belongs to a temperance organization, being a stanch supporter of prohibition.

This was copied by Cynthia Anne (Peace) Stone on November 13, 2000 from an Xerox copy of a page from a book with the title of Union County page 859.

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