Life History

Notes

• 1870 Federal Census, Coffee County, Alabama, 2 August, Township 6, PO Elba, page 62, Hse/Fam #68
  Stroud, Sarah 39 F W Keeping House $160 Real Estate $120 Personal Estate b GA
  Stroud, Sarah 9 F W At Home born AL
  
  Sarah Wiggins Stroud remarried soon afte the 1870 census, to a recently-widowed Bethel Simmons.  Her daughter Sarah appears to be the one Stroud child enuemrated in the Simmons household under the name of Ema (Emma), age 10.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Pike County, Alabama, 29 June, Beat #14, District 149, page 56, Hse #371, Fam #372
  Simmons, Bethel  W M 71 Head Farmer Can't Read or Write GA SC SC [b abt 1809]
  Simmons, Sarah F W F 47 Wife Keeping House Can't Read or Write AL SC KY [b abt 1833]
  Simmons, Sarah  A W F 20 Dau At Home Can't Read or Write AL NC GA [b abt 1860]
  Stroud, Ema W F 20 Stepdau At Home Can't Read or Write AL NC GA [b abt 1860]
  Simmons, Ema W F 10 Dau At Home Can't Read or Write AL GA GA [b abt 1870]
  
  In 1900, Sarah Emma's mother has again been widowed, and Emma and her brother Josephus are living in her housheold.
  
  1900 Federal Census, Pike County, Alabama, 22 June, Spring Hill, District 137, page 11B,  Hse #206, Fam #207
  Simmons, Frances Head  W M June 1833 67 Widow 11 children/6 living GA GA GA Farmer Owns
  Simmons, Emma Dau W F Mar 1872 28 Single AL AL GA Farm Laborer
  Simmons, Josephus C Son W M June 1878  21 Single AL AL GA Farm Laborer

Sources

• 1. 1870 Federal Census, Coffee County, Alabama
  • 2 August, Township 6, PO Elba, page 62, Hse/Fam #68
• 2. 1880 Federal Census, Pike County, Alabama
  • 29 June, Beat #14, District 149, page 56, Hse #371, Fam #372
• 3. 1900 Federal Census, Pike County, Alabam
  • 22 June, Spring Hill, District 137, page 11B,  Hse #206, Fam #207