Valentin Theobald Simon, son of Barbara Simon, was born on 1 July 1820 on Mount Kalmit in the Haardt Mtn range of the Pfälzerwald (Palatinate Forest) of southwestern Germany when it was part of Bayern (the Kingdom of Bavaria) in a small town called Frankenstein. The next day, 2 July 1820, in the neighboring town through the woods of Weidenthal, 2.5km southeast of Frankenstein, Valentin was baptized Evangelisch (translates to Protestant (not "Evangelical" as the word means in English)). Only his mother is listed on his birth and baptism record, and later when he wed. On 31 December 1845, at the left foot of the mountains, in Hochspeyer (6.6km west of Frankenstein) Valentin Simon was married to Luise Lang of Hochspeyer, daughter of Johannes Lang & Barbara Werner. (Sometimes they're referenced as being from Fischbach, which is technically a separate village, but Fischbach and Hochspeyer run in to one another at the left side slope of Mount Kalmit. Most villages/towns on the plain are separated by 2-5km of vineyards in between.) When the couple wed, Valentin was 25 & Luise was 19. They lived in Hochspeyer. (Today the town is under the administrative district of Kaiserslautern, federal state of Rheinland-Pfalz, democratic country of Germany. Kaiserslautern is a major city, 12km due west of Hochspeyer.) There, Valentin & Luise had at least five known children, beginning 10 months after their wedding, with a child born every 3-4 years for 13 years until 1859. The year after the youngest, Valentin Simon died prematurely at only 39 years old, on 12 February 1860 in Hochspeyer, where he was buried in the cemetery on 14 February 1860. The grave marker is no longer there as is typical for recycling of plots after 30yrs at a time, and usually reused by the next generation of the same family. But church records indicate that is where he was laid to rest.

Valentin Simon & Luise Lang's known children were:

(1) Susanna Anslinger, geb/née Simon
b. 9 Oct 1846, Annweiler am Trifels, Pfalz
{md. 1873, Georg Anslinger}
Md/lived/10kids in Sankt Martin, 28km directly over Mount Kalmit of the Haardt Mtns, almost directly opposite Hochspeyer as you cross through Frankenstein.
d. 14 Feb 1913, Neustadt an der Haardt (renamed N.a/d Weinstraße now) -- nearest small city, 7km away, the Bezirksamt (Administrative District) to Sankt Martin

(2) Luise Simon
b. 7 May 1849, Hochspeyer

(3) Georg Simon
b. 6 Sept 1853, Hochspeyer

(4) Karl Simon, infant
b. 2 Feb 1857, Hochspeyer
d. 2 Sept 1857, Hochspeyer

(5) (Unnamed) Simon,
Totgeboren
(stillborn, literally "dead born")
[no gender recorded]
b./d. 11 Nov 1859, Hochspeyer

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Script Church Records of
Valentin Theobald Simon
transcribed to Type:

Name: Valentin Theobald Simon
Record Type: Taufe (Baptism)
Birth Date: 1. Jul 1820
Birth Place: Frankenstein, Pfalz, Bayern (Kngdm of Bavaria)
Baptism Date: 2. Jul 1820
Baptism Place: Weidenthal, Bayern, Preußen (Germany)
Mother: Barbara Simon
City or District: Finkenbach, Frankweiler, Gersweiler, Neustadt, Weidenthal u Winnweiler
Author: *Evangelische Kirche Finkenbach (Finkenbach-Gersweiler)

Name: Valentin Simon
Gender: männlich (Male)
Marriage Age: 25
Record Type: Heirat (Marriage)
Birth Date: 1. Jul 1820
Marriage Date: 31. Dez 1845
Marriage Place: Hochspeyer, Bayern
(Kngdm of Bavaria), Preußen (Germany)
Mother: Barbara Simon
Spouse: Louise (Luise) Lang
City or District: Hochspeyer
Author: *Evangelische Kirche
Hochspeyer (BA. Kaiserslautern)

Name: Valentin Simon
Death Age: 39
Record Type: Beerdigung(Burial)
Birth Date: abt 1821 {1. Jul 1820}
Death Date: 12. Feb 1860
Burial Date: 14. Feb 1860
Burial Place: Hochspeyer, Bayern
(Bavaria), Preußen
Spouse: Luise Lang
City or District: Hochspeyer
Author: *Evangelische Kirche
Hochspeyer (BA. Kaiserslautern)

*Evangelische in German translates to Protestant in English, not the American use of "evangelical".