...In 1879 Dr. Simons was married to Serena D. Aiken, of Charleston, and they have five sons living. Colonel Charles H. Simonton, of the Twenty-fifth South Carolina regiment, now a judge of the United States circuit court, was born at Charleston, July 11, 1829. He is descended from a Pennsylvanian, of Scotch-Irish descent, who came to South Carolina after Braddock's defeat, and engaged in planting. T...