| Orville J. Simpson
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| Character Information
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- "See, son, that's where we're going ... maybe not today, maybe not tomorra'. But someday."
- ―Orville J. Simpson
Orville J. Simpson, or Great-Grampa Simpson, was born in the late 1800s in "The Old Country", which could have been in Ireland, Scotland or Canada.
History
Orville married Yuma Hickman in the early 1900s. The two soon had their first son, Hubert, with Tyrone coming two years later. A few years later, they had their third son, Cyrus. Sometime afterwards, they had their fourth son, Abraham, whom Orville named after his grandfather. Four years after, Yuma became pregnant with their fifth child, and only daughter, Hortense.
When Abraham was six years of age, Orville, Yuma and their four sons immigrated to America, and moved into the Statue of Liberty. For a few years they lived here, but they were forced to move out when they filled the head with too much garbage. They later moved to Springfield. At some point, Orville opened up the Professor Simpson's Universal Panacea for Disagreeable Juveniles juvenile school. There, he showed dozens of men how to punish their boys by strangling Abe as an example. However, despite this, his father didn't approve, and strangled him.
As the years passed, Hubert and Tyrone had both grown up. While Hubert stayed in Springfield, Tyrone moved to Dayton, Ohio. In the late 1930s, Orville and Yuma had another son, and named him Bill. By the time of the Second World War, Abraham and Cyrus had grown up, with them both becoming navy pilots in WWII. Cyrus crashed his fighter plane in Tahiti, and moved there permanently, later becoming married to 15 women, to whom he is still married, while Abe went on to become captain of the Flying Hellfish group. Bill grew up and became a communist. In the early 1940s, Orville and Yuma had their final child, and named him Chet, who would grow up to manage an unsuccessful shrimp company. Orville and Yuma later grew old and passed away, presumably by 1987, as they are only mentioned, or seen in flashbacks.
Orville was seen in Heaven by Bart after getting hit by a car,[1] strangling young Homer, hinting the habit is a family trait. He is present in Grampa's story when Grampa tells the family of his arrival in the U.S.[2] He is the only son of "Old Tut" Simpson and "Happy" Simpson.[3]
Appearances
Gallery
References
Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" 
Book – The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album 
Comic Strip – Abe's First Radio 
