Rev. George M. Simpson was born in St. Clair County, Alabama, December 22, 1847, near where Odenville now stands.

When in his fifteenth year he professed religion and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

He was received under the care of Elyton Presbytery in 1869.

In 1870 he was ordained to the full work of the Christian ministry at Liberty Church, near where he was reared and where he made his profession and united with the church of his choice. Liberty being the Church of his father and mother.

He was in the pastoral work in Alabama and Texas for more than thirty-three years. During this time quite a number of church houses were erected as a result of his influence. He held many revivals in some of which more than a hundred souls were saved and received into the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He lined up more than eight hundred members in the union struggle, through which the church passed.

After serving his country through a part of the Civil War and serving his church as above stated, Brother Simpson, though impaired in health, still lives and preaches near his childhood home.

[Source: Our Senior Soldiers, The Biographies and Autobiographies of Eighty Cumberland Presbyterian Preachers. Compiled by The Cumberland Presbyterian Board of Publication. The Assistance of Revs. J. L. Price and W. P. Kloster is Greatfully [sic: Gratefully] Acknowledged. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1915, page 59]

Rev. George M. Simpson was born in St. Clair County, Ala., December 22, 1847, and died July 25, 1918. He professed religion in his fifteenth year and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He joined Elyton Presbytery (now Birmingham and Springville Presbyteries) about 1869 and was ordained in 1879 and spent nearly forty years preaching in Alabama and Texas. Several church houses were built and many souls were saved through his instrumentality. He made a good soldier in the war of the States, and a Confederate flag was placed on his casket.

Rev. Eugene Emerson preached his funeral to a large congregation in Liberty Church, which was the home church of Brother Simpson's father and mother and where he joined the Church and was ordained to the ministry, and his remains were laid to rest in Liberty cemetery. He leaves a wife and several children and a host of friends to mourn his loss.--Rev. T. J. Rasco.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, October 3, 1918, page 14]

[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1919, page 100]