...s descended from a Pennsylvanian, 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...