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Edgefield History Talk Profiles Simkins Family Legacy
The Edgefield County Historical Society will host a 3 p.m. Sunday lecture at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Simkins family, tracing Edgefield leaders and Confederate figures. Dr. James O. Farmer will discuss Eldred Simkins and descendants, with keynote by James S. Humphreys on Francis Butler Simkins and a tribute to Alice Denham. A new annotated memoir, Memoirs of Litchwood, will be available, with early April copies expected.
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Simkins
Edgefield County
South Carolina
Edge
Field County
James O. Farmer
USC Aiken
Eldred Simkins
Edgefield
Farmer
Arthur Simkins
Edgefield Advertiser
John Calhoun Simkins
Eldred James Simkins
Texas
William Stewart Simkins
University of Texas
Martha Simkins
James S. Humphreys
Murray State University
Kentucky
Francis Butler Simkins
Humphreys
Gram
Alice Denham
Greenwich Village
New York
Bird
Jefferson County
Florida
Tallahassee
Edgefield County Historical Society
Litchwood
Denham