Richard Simmonds
Richard Simmonds, born March 14, 1800, near Baltimore, Maryland, came to Ohio in 1806, and settled on LEE'S creek, this county, one mile south of the Butler county line. In July, 1825, he married Susanna Pottenger, daughter of Samuel Pottenger, founder of New Baltimore, of Crosby township. By this marriage two sons and two daughters were born, one son - James - the only child living. Richard Simmonds has two grand-and two great-grandchildren; had four brothers and two sisters. His life has been an active one, engaging in farming, dealing in stock and barter generally, during the twenty-five years which was spent on Lee's creek. During seven years which followed at Sater in Crosby township, and the forty seven years at Miamitown, great industry has rewarded him with handsome gains. The hardy forest lies fallen under his stroke; the Indian, the wolf, the deer, the bear, these, too, have gone, and now, in declining age, a life freighted with philanthropy and good actions for imitation he retires to domestic happiness, waiting for a reaper which will soon gather an abundant harvest.
From History of Hamilton county, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881