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Grace Burnette SIMMONS
1877 - 1938 (60 Jahre)Personen-Kennung: I56290
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Name Grace Burnette SIMMONS [1] Geburt 1 Mrz 1877 Belfast, Waldo, Maine, USA 
[1] Geschlecht weiblich Gestorben 7 Feb 1938 Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Notizen - Grace Burnette Simmons (Nahum, Nathaniel, Col.
James, Joseph, Deac. Nathaniel,
Joseph, John, Moses)
the daughter of Nahum L., and Anne Maria (Brown)
Simmons, was born at East Knox, Me, March 1, 1877.
Miss Simmons was educated in the common schools
of Knox, Morrill, and Belfast, Me. (Poor’s Mills, Me.);
at the East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport,
Me, where her uncles Frederick W. Brown and Arthur
I. Brown had been students, and where her sister Win¬
ifred had been graduated in 1895,—at the Maine Wes¬
leyan Seminary and Female College, Kent’s Hill, Read*
field, Me., where her brother Edmund once studied and
from which she was graduated in 1899,—at the Uni¬
versity of Cambridge, England, in 1929,—by travel in
Europe and in England,—and at Boston University
with B.S. in Education 1937.
While at Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female
College, Miss Simmons was president of the Eroma-
thean Society, one of the girls’ social and literary or¬
ganizations, an officer in her class, an editor of the
Kent’s Hill Ereeze, the Seminary’s magazine, and one
of the speakers at the exercises at her Commencement.
She also served in the Library, and occasionally sub¬
stituted as a teacher of the mathematics classes when
Dr. A. F. Chase, the Principal of the Seminary was
away.
Before Miss Simmons had completed her courses at
the Seminary, she had taught many terms of school in
Morrill, Montville, Searsmont and Belfast, Me. After
her Kent’s Hill Days, she taught in the Milford, Conn.,
High School 1899-1901, Scituate, Mass., High School
1901-1903, Principal of the Hatherly School, North
Scituate, Mass., 1903-1912, Principal of the William H.
McElwain School, Bridgewater, Mass., 1912-1921, and
finally Principal of the Edward B. Nevins School,
South Weymouth, Mass., 1920-1938.
Miss Simmons’ ancestry—early as well as recent—
is of particular interest. She is descended from Dr.
Samuel Fuller, a passenger on the Mayflower 1620, and
the first physician of the Pilgrims and of New Eng¬
land, from Bridget (Lee) Fuller (Dr. Fuller’s wife) an
early teacher in Plymouth, Mass., Rev. Samuel Fuller
(Dr. Fuller’s son), the first minister of Middleborough,
Mass., Rev. Thomas Tupper and Rev. Greshom Hall of
Cape Cod, Mass., Rev. James MacGregore, first Presby¬
terian minister of Londonderry, N. H., Rev. Joseph
Hull (B.A. Nov. 14, 1614, at St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford
University), Dover, N. H., from William Moody of ear¬
ly Newbury, Mass., who gave through his descendants
many ministers (all Harvard graduates) to serve the
pulpits in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine,
and from the Norton and Whipple families of Ipswich,
Mass.
She is also descended from Capt. Miles Standish,
Stephen Hopkins, John Alden, Richard Warren, Jos¬
eph Rogers, George Soule, and fourteen other men and
women of the Mayflower, as well as from Alice (Car¬
penter) Southworth, the second wife of Gov. Brad¬
ford, Thomas Little, early lawyer of Marshfield, Mass.,
and from three lines of Winslows.
Among her ancestors who served in military organ¬
izations were John Johnson, early Capt. of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, Con¬
stant Southworth of Pequin Indian Attacks, John
Phinney and Isaac Pierce of King Philip’s War, Capt.
Abiel Pierce of the later French and Indian Wars and
of the Revolutionary War, who saw (as Aid de Camp)
on the Plains of Abraham, Quebec, the death of Gen¬
eral Wolfe, Capt. John Phinney, founder of Gorham, Me.,
Col. Edmund Phinney who was at the siege of
Boston and served under Washington, and was a Rep¬
resentative to the General Court of Massachusetts,
Joseph Simmons of the Revolutionary War, Col. James
Simmons of the War of 1812, and from Capt. Miles
Standish, the military protector of the Plymouth
Colony.
Miss Simmons’ early years were spent among the
strong and active personalities of her immediate fam¬
ily. Her grandmother, Joanna (Pierce) Brown, was a
distinguished school teacher in Maine in the early
1830’s, who later as a farmer’s wife taught herself
French literally at the churn-dash. She spoke to and
translated for her children, and even counted the
strokes of the churn in French. Her great aunt Lucinda
(Pierce) Pease (a frequent house guest) was a strong
minded Preacher of the Gospel when it was uncom¬
mon for a woman to occupy pulpits. Her mother was
an excellent teacher, especially of Algebra and Math¬
ematics generally, as well as her uncle Frederick W.
Brown, and her uncle Arthur I. Brown, who has been
memorialized by Dr. Rufus Jones in his book, “The
Small Town Boy” and by a pamphlet of the American
Book Company, and who was also former principal of
Belfast High School, Editor of the Republican Journal,
and for several years Secretary of the State of Maine.
Her sister Winifred (Mrs. Chester B. Allen) was for¬
mer instructor of Latin and Greek at Camden, Me.,
High School, a writer of poems, and author of a de¬
scriptive pageant, “The Ladies of the White House.”
Her brother Roscoe N. Simmons was a competent
nurse, and brothers Harry and Edmund were skilled
in the installation of factory machinery; her brother
Frederick J. was a teacher forty-four years and on the
faculty of Keene Teachers College twonty-fiv ' years
(retired), and it was this same brother Frederick who
asserted his independence (one had to in this commun¬
ity), when addressed by a well-known citizen of Waldo County, Me.,
with “Of course you can teach for you
are the grandson of Joanna Pierce,” by prompt reply,
“Yes, Joanna Pierce is my grandmother, but otherwise
she is no relative of mine;” her sister Joanna Pierce
Simmons (Mrs. George O. Richardson) was a social
and civic minded teacher in two continents, North Am¬
erica and Asia (China), she revised the curriculum for
the American School in Tientsin, China, and she is the
author of two lectures, “Chinese Pagodas,” and “Jade,
Its Origin and Significance,” printed in the publication
of the Stanley Club of Tientsin, China; also she had the
honor to give her lecture on “Chinese Pagodas” before
the Royal Asiatic Society of Shanghai, China; her
brother, the late Dr. Hugh L. Simmons, was the well-
known specialist of Worcester, Mass.
These members of her family, with their decided
ambitions and individualistic tastes, influenced the
happy natured, optimistic Miss Simmons to mature
and develop her talents and powers that made of her
an efficient principal of schools, and an able, inspiring,
helpful teacher and counselor.
Many of the cadet-teachers from the Bridgewater
State Teachers College had their practice-teaching un¬
der Miss Simmons at the Edward B. Nevins School,
South Weymouth, Mass. Her careful, sympathetic and
able guidance was an experience that will be long re¬
membered by thdse young people.
Miss Simmons was for several years a director of
the Girl Scouts at Bridgewater, Mass., and active in
the work of the Congregational Church at Bridge-
water, and at South Weymouth, Mass.
For many years Miss Simmons was an advisor on
the staffs of “The Normal Art Magazine” and the mag¬
azine “Something To Do,” edited by Dr. Henry Turner
Bailey, a former member of the Massachusetts State
Board of Education and later Director of the Cleve¬
land, Ohio, Art Museum.Miss Simmons was more than a modern technically
trained instructor. She was a real teacher urging her
pupils to seek values and principles, a competent guide
of youth. Many men and women of Scituate, Bridge-
water and South Weymouth, Mass., today hold her in
high esteem and affection for her recognized influence
in their lives, as attested by the following tribute in
“The Weymouth Gazette and Transcript,” February 25,
1938:—
“There has passed from our midst a woman whose
quiet strength and sympathetic friendliness has en¬
deared her to the hearts of many and it is in loving
appreciation of a great soul that this tribute is pre¬
sented.
“Since 1919 she has been principal of the Edward B.
Nevins School in South Weymouth, coming to this
town from Bridgewater where she served in the same
capacity. While her contacts were local, her interests
knew no bounds. She exerted a far-reaching influence
in molding the character and shaping the lives of the
children under her care. That influence can never be
measured. Only the hundreds of young people who
have been animated and encouraged by her teaching
can testify to the breadth and strength of her sym¬
pathies.
“She was a comrade on the playground, a mentor
and wise counselor in the school-room. Her belief in
the inherent possibilities of young people was unfail¬
ing and she possessed the judgment and wisdom to
translate into practice in everyday living the ideals
that she held paramount. Always a student she sought
to broaden her knowledge that her teachers and pu¬
pils might profit. Many a young inexperienced teacher
has become strong and efficient under her kindly cap¬
able training. Down through the years, the lamp of
learning will burn all the more brightly for countless
children because of the potent influence of this vital
spirit.
“For several years she served as counselor of reli¬
gious education in the Church School of the Old South
Union Church, and as such was a spiritual force for
good in the community.
“In the home, amongst her many friends, in the
Church, but most of all in the school will she be sorely
missed. A life cut short in the midst of its usefulness
stimulates and challenges those remaining to carry on
the work, and her memory will serve ever as a lesson
to guide and direct their course.”
Miss Simmons, after a year of teaching, advising
the two magazines, attending college classes, and
working in civic and religious activities, tired and
worn, came home for the summer, and then would
seek the opportunity to help Lilia Hatch Pearson (the
wife of Dr. T. N. Pearson) prepare and train the child¬
ren of the Sunday School for the annual entertain¬
ment and concert at the little Church in Morrill, Me.
She was devoted to her mother, helpful to members of
her family, and always interested in the welfare of
her home-town people.
Miss Simmons was a member, and once an officer, of
the Massachusetts State Teachers’ Association, a mem¬
ber of the National Teachers’ Association, the Elemen-
* tary Principals’ Association, the Methodist Church, the
Twentieth Century Club of Boston, Mass. In politics
she was a Republican. She was listed in Cattoll’s
“Leaders in Education.”
The Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College,
the East Maine Conference Seminary, and Boston Uni¬
versity can hold with pride the memory of the sincere,
purposeful and effective career of Grace ?*. Simmons.
Miss Simmons died at Melrose Highlands, Mass.,
February 7, 1933, and she rests in the beautiful Mount
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Note: It is of interest that, through the Pierces, Miss
Simmons is a fourth cousin of Hon. John Hay, through
the Southworths a distant cousin of Isaac Roosevelt of
Hyde Park, N. Y., through other colonial families a dis¬
tant cousin of H. W. Longfellow, W. C. Bryant, Bill
Nye, Jennie Jerome Churchill, as well as six lines of
distant cousinship to Sarah Delano (Mrs. James Roos¬
evelt).
- Grace Burnette Simmons (Nahum, Nathaniel, Col.
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Eltern
Vater Naham Ludwig SIMMONS (ID:I56335), geb. 2 Jan 1848, Belfast, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 21 Jan 1909, Morrill, Waldo, Maine, USA (Alter 61 Jahre) Beziehung natural Mutter Annie Maria BROWN (ID:I56334), geb. 21 Sep 1853, Belfast, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 22 Jul 1939 (Alter 85 Jahre) Beziehung natural Eheschließung 22 Feb 1874 Belfast, Waldo, Maine, USA Kinder + 1. Winifred Bernice SIMMONS (ID:I56292), geb. 22 Sep 1874, Belfast, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 21 Jul 1952, Morrill, Waldo, Maine, USA (Alter 77 Jahre)2. Grace Burnette SIMMONS (ID:I56290)
(current person)
, geb. 1 Mrz 1877, Belfast, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 7 Feb 1938, Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Alter 60 Jahre)+ 3. 
Roscoe Nahum SIMMONS (ID:I56289), geb. 16 Jul 1879, Knox, Maine, USA gest. UNKNOWN+ 4. Harry Guy SIMMONS (ID:I56287), geb. 15 Nov 1881, Knox, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 12 Apr 1949 (Alter 67 Jahre)5. Frederick Johnson SIMMONS (ID:I56284), geb. 23 Mai 1884, Knox, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 30 Mrz 1974, Montclair, Essex, New Jersey, USA (Alter 89 Jahre)6. Sarah SIMMONS (ID:I56285), geb. 23 Mai 1884, Knox, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 23 Mai 1884, Knox, Waldo, Maine, USA (Alter 0 Jahre)+ 7. Edmund Phinney SIMMONS (ID:I56283), geb. 26 Okt 1886, Knox, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 2 Jun 1961, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Alter 74 Jahre)8. Allen SIMMONS (ID:I56281), geb. 17 Jun 1888, Knox, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 17 Jun 1888 (Alter 0 Jahre)+ 9. Joanna Pierce SIMMONS (ID:I56280), geb. 4 Okt 1890, Morrill, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 18 Jan 1984, Montclair, Essex, New Jersey, USA (Alter 93 Jahre)+ 10. Hugh Ludwig SIMMONS, Sr. (ID:I56278), geb. 31 Okt 1893, Morrill, Waldo, Maine, USA gest. 20 Nov 1951, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Alter 58 Jahre) -
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Geburt - 1 Mrz 1877 - Belfast, Waldo, Maine, USA 
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- [S12703] Ancestry.com, USA, Familiengeschichtliche Bücher, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2025;), Sprague's Journal of Maine History-V 8 (1920).