Mark Mervin SIMMONS

  General Notes:

Photo: Like many other members of his family, Mark Mervin Simmons, who died at age 36, is buried at I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa.

Photo from DeeAnna Allum Granston (taken by DeeAnna in 1964)


1908 BIRTH of Mark Mervin Simmons

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo (April 28) ("Mark M.," age 2, is with his parents)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo (January 14) ("Mark," age 10, is with his parents)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo (January 1) ("Mark M.," age 16, is with his parents)

1927 DEATH of grandfather, John Banks Allum

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Jones County, Fairview Township, Anamosa, Men's Reformatory (March 28) ("Mark," age 22, "Laborer, prison")

1944 DEATH, Mark Mervin Simmons, at approximately 36 years



PHOTOGRAPH:

Gravestone at I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa:

Mark M. Simmons
1908-1944

Mark married Lucile SLAYMAKER, daughter of Ernest Grafton SLAYMAKER and Nina Daisy MILLER. (Lucile SLAYMAKER was born in 1913-1914 in Iowa.)