Background
Simmons, Elizabeth Margret was born on January 18, 1891 in Hardeman, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Alice Lavinia (Smith) Davis.
Simmons, Elizabeth Margret was born on January 18, 1891 in Hardeman, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Alice Lavinia (Smith) Davis.
Student Missouri Valley College, 1903-1908.
Writer since 1920; has been contributor to Leghorn World, editor Western Poultry Journal, editorial writer and copy editor Plymouth Rock Monthly. Editorial writer Rhode Island Red Journal and Wyandotte Herald. Editor poultry information columns Corn Belt Farm Dailies (which include Chicago Daily Drovers Journal, Saint Louis Daily Livestock Reporter, Kansas City Daily Drovers Telegram, Omaha Daily Journal-Stockman) since 1922.
Lecturer Farm Institute, Missouri State Board of Agriculture.
Speaker “Grass Roots” Republican Convention, Springfield, Illinois, June 1935. Received award from Missouri Writers Guild for most outstanding writing on any Missouri author, 1935.
Honorary member Texas Women's Press Association.
Member Texas
Married George Bartlett Simmons, March 29, 1909. Children: Valerie Ruth (Mistress Percy Franklin Vesser), Vivien Virginia (Mistress Hartzell I. Bozarth), Genevieve Elizabeth (Mistress Charles Emerson Clark), Alice Temple, Georgena Gay.