Sixth Generation

2204. Willard Partee SIMMONS was born on 19 October 1891 in Catawba County, North Carolina.^206,576 He died on 20 January 1979 at the age of 87 in Catawba County, North Carolina and was buried in Mount Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Conover, NC.²⁰⁶

Willard Partee SIMMONS and Mattie May [Dietz] DEITZ were married on 24 April 1915 in Catawba County, North Carolina.²⁴²⁷ License dated 17 Apr 1915. Married by Rev. J.E. Barb; witnesses: L.H. Wise, Susie L. Dasher, Mrs. J.E. Barb. Mattie May [Dietz] DEITZ, daughter of Thomas Jefferson [Dietz] DEITZ and Susan Louetta WHITENER, was born on 27 November 1894 in Catawba County, North Carolina.²⁰⁶ She appeared in the census in 1910.²⁴²⁸ In 1910 she was a farm laborer.²⁴²⁸ Mattie died on 25 January 1947 at the age of 52 in Catawba County, North Carolina and was buried in Mount Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Conover, NC.²⁰⁶