... of Scotch-Irish descent, who came to South Carolina after Braddock's defeat, and engaged in planting. The grandson of the latter, and father of Judge Simonton, was Charles S. Simonton, who married Elizabeth Ross , a native of Ireland, and became a successful merchant at Charleston. Judge Simonton was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1849, after which he read law and was admitted to practice at Cha...