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sold out his interests and went prospecting
through Illinois and Indiana, and on as far
as Hamilton, Caldwell county, Missouri, and
there practiced his profession for some time;
but in 1880 he left Hamilton and for ten
years resided at San Marcos, Texas, and then
came to Austin, where he has since given his
*time and best energies to dentistry, succeeding
well. He is a skilled workman and gives
universal satisfaction.
Dr. Simcock was first married September
6, 1860, to Miss Candace Moore, daughter
of Daniel and Martha Moore, of Grayson
county, Virginia. Her death occurred in
December, 1861, at the early age of twentyone
years. She was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. October 24, 1865,
Dr. Simcock married Miss E. M. Brewer,
daughter of William and Mary Brewer, of
Grayson county, Virginia, and six children
have been born of this marriage, as follows:
Mary M., the wife of Professor M. C. McGee,
residing in San Marcos, Texas, and DeWitt
Clinton is their only child; Sallie E.,
who has recently graduated in the School of
Music at Austin, and is prepared for musical
teaching; Frederick AM. is studying dentistry
with his father; Hattie C., Bertha M. and
Tinsley are at home.
Dr. Simncock is a member of the I. 0. 0.
F., and is a member of the Masonic order in
blue lodge, chapter and commandery. Our
subject is of good old stock, his paternal
grandfather Aaron Simcock, a native of New
Jersey, being of a family well known in that
State; he came to Virginia with his father, locating
in Grayson county. The father, John,
had come from England to New Jersey before
the Revolutionary war, in which he took part
as a private. The name of the grandmother
of our subject was Beulah (Bryant) Simecock,
and her parents had also come early to the

State, and her father sent a substitute during
the first year of the Revolution, but later
went himself and gave up his life for his
adopted country, during the last year of the
war.
D R. WILLIAM P. FLEMIING, one of
the leading physicians of Georgetown,
was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania,
September 7, 1838. The Flemings
of this country are descended from William
Fleming, a Scotchman, who was the great
great-grandf'ather of our subject. Before
William Penn arrived in this country there
were a few settlements on the eastern shore
of the Chesapeake bay, where tobacco was
raised. William Fleming had an uncle who
sailed a ship from Greenock, Scotland, to the
American shore for that product and wheat.
On one of his arrivals at Greenock, William
Fleming went down to the port to see him,
and was persuaded by his uncle to make a
voyage to America with him, to lielp work
the ship, to see the new country, etc. They
arrived in Chesapeake in harvest time, and
his uncle persuaded him to go ashore and
help the farmers, as he told him it would
perhaps be a month before lie bailed on his
return trip. William began work with a
farmer, and while thus engaged the ship
sailed without him, and lie found his uncle
had bound him as a servant for four years.
He served the farmer faithfully, and then
started for the settlements at the mouth of
Christiana creek and ap the Delaware, now
known as Chester county, Pennsylvania.
William lived with an Englishman, named
Moore, at Naaman's creek, and afterward
married one of his daughters. He witnessed
the landing of William Penn at Chester, in
1682, and after many years, when the settle

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