Sims Lineage
1 Sherrod Sims
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Birth: 1730, Richmond County, Virginia
Death: 1825, Lancaster County, South Carolina
Father: Thomas Sims (1702-1785)
Mother: Rebecca Petty (1705-1784)
An excerpt from "The Story of My Life", by Dr. James Marion Sims, p 32.
My paternal great grandfather, Sherrod Sims was born in VA in 1730. I remember the date well because he told me he was at Braddock's Defeat (1755) and that he was then 25 years old. He served through the Revolutionary War and afterwards removed from VA with his family to the Beaver Creek neighborhood, in the southern part of Lancaster Co., SC. When I was 10 or 11 years old, he showed me a document with Washington's name signed to it, but I did not have sense enough to appreciate it, or care to know what it was. He was a tall, raw-boned, splendid old man, 6 feet high, when I last saw him in 1824. He died of old age in 1825, at the age of 95, having survived his wife 25 years. He had five or six sons and two daughters. My father's family were all long-lived. Sherrod's sons were: Sherrod Jr., Stephen, Ashburn, and the others lived to a very old age. They were all tillers of the soil.
Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
Warren Co., North Carolina
pg. 3 Jan.29, 1787
Ordered that SAMUEL LEARY be appointed Overseer of a Road from the old County line to Nutbush Bridge and that he keep the same in repair with his own hands and LEONARD HENLY BULLOCK, LEONARD SIMS, ELIJAH (ELISHA) SIMS, WILLIAM SIMS, WILLIAM BULLOCK's Quarter, HOWELL MOSS, and SHERROD SIMS.
pg 16 May 31, 1787
Ordered that LEONARD SIMS be appointed Overseer of the road from Nutbush Road near the bridge to BURTON's Ferry Road, and that he keep the same in repair with the hands of ELISHA SIMS, WILLIAM SIMS, COL. WILLIAM BULLOCK's Quarter, SHERROD SIMS,, RICHARD WATKINS, *****NATHANIEL ROBERTSON*****, JAMES EARLES and JOHN MALONE.
TYPE:DEED DATE:2 28, 1788
NAME:BALLARD, THOMAS
PLACE:Lancaster Co., SC
ABSTRACT:Bk A-22 Joseph Kirkland of Fairfield Co. to Sherrod Sims of Lancaster Co. £60 Stlg .... land on Beaver Creek in Lancaster Co.
WITNESS:Wit: Thomas Ballard
SOURCE:Brent H. Holcolmb, LANCASTER CO., SC DEED ABST. 1787-1811
Series: S108093
Reel: 0014
Frame: 00415
Item: 000
Date: 2/11/1795
Description: VANLANDINGHAM, DAWSON OF KERSHAW COUNTY, WILL TYPESCRIPT (MSS WILL: ESTATE RECORD BOOK C, PAGE 128; ESTATE PACKET: APT. 70, PKG. 2498) (1 FRAME).
Names indexed: HILLIARD, CENIS; HILLIARD, PHILIMON; MILLER, WILLIAM; SIMMS, SHERROD; SIMS, ASHBOURN; SUMMERVILL, JAMES; VANLANDINGHAM, DAWSON; VANLANDINGHAM, DAWSON; VANLANDINGHAM, MARY; VANLANDINGHAM, RICHARD
Locations: KERSHAW COUNTY
Document type: WILL (TYPESCRIPT)
Spouse: Sarah Ashburn
Birth: 1735, VA
Death: 24 Aug 1779, Spaulding Co., GA
Children: Edward S. (1760-1832)
Sherrod
Stephen
Asburn
Augustine
Bartlett
Charles
Elliott
George
James
1.1a Edward S. Sims*
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Birth: 1760, Culpeper County Virginia
Death: 11 Sep 1832, Richland Dist. South Carolina
Occ: Wheelwright
Living in EdgefieldSC prior to moving to FairfieldSC.
Served in Revolutionary War on the Virginia Continental Line. Filed for pension in Richland Dist. SC 1821. Appeal filed in 1853 by children John, Rachel and Duke.
Crenshaw DUKE witnessed a Deed given by Edward SIMS of Edgefield County, SC, wheelwright, to Alex CARRUTH (m. Susan Sims) of Lancaster County, SC on 16 November, 1791 conveying a tract of land containing 100 acres situated on the NE side of Catawba River on Beaver Creek originally granted to Elizabeth GOUGHER [GEOTCHE aka GOUTCHER] 21 January 1769, "adj. Roger Pinckney & William Johnston, Jeremiah Joiner, James Kennedy...Edward Sims (seal), Jane Sims (X) (seal), Wit: Robert Henry, William McMans, CRENSHAW DUKE. Prov. by CRENSHAW DUKE, 5 July 1793, before Jesse Tilman, J. P.." Lancaster Co., SC Deed Book B, p. 279 [Elizabeth GOUTCHER was the daughter of Thomas GEOTCHE and was mentioned in his Will dated 21 December 1786 as having married a SIMS and was deceased. Thomas GEOTCHE had another daughter Mary GEOTCHE who married (1) a McKEE [James?] and (2) Stephen DUKE.]
Deed made July 01, 1795,recorded Oct. 29, 1830 Moses Duke to Edward Sims, "a Certain tract or plantation of land containing seventy five Acres Situated between twenty five mile Creek & flat branch bounded North on Robert Duke South on Land laid out for Moses Duke south East on Thomas Duke & west on Aaron Johnston be Same being part of a tract of three hundred Acres first Originally granted unto William Simmons under the hand of William Bull Esqr Dated the thirty first day of August Anno Domini 1774 Duly Recorded in the Secretaries office in the book SSS page 448 the aforesaid Seventy five Acres Legally transferred by lease & release unto the Said Moses Duke from the said William Simmons" Fairfield County, SC Deed Book HH, p. 258
There’s no doubt that Sherrod is my Edward’s father. The connection with Dawson Vanlandingham shows they moved from 1787 Warren NC to 1789 Lancaster SC and then to Calhoun MS.
Spouse: Jennie (Jane) Thompson
Birth: abt 1765
Death: bef 1821
Children: Edward (1797-1860)
Elizabeth “Betsy”
Martha
John (1789-)
James (1790-1860) Tales of James Sims
Rachel (1795-)
Duke (1801-)
unknown (~1805-)
Other spouses: Elizabeth Goucher
1.1a.1 Edward Sims
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Birth: 1797, Chester, South Carolina
Death: 1860, Calhoun County, MIssissippi
Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Stringfellow
Birth: 1797, Virginia
Death: 1872, Mississippi
Father: Reuben Stringfellow
Mother: Elizabeth
Children: Eli Thompson (1820-)
Seley C. (1827-)
Mary (1830-)
Samuel (1829-)
Elizabeth (1832-)
Edward (1834-)
Martin (1835-)
William A. (1819-)
James (1790-1860)
Rachel
1.1a.1.1 Eli Thompson Sims
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Birth: 1820, Chester, South Carolina
Farmer by trade
Spouse: Mary Jane Stringfellow
Birth: 1820, South Carolina
Father: Alexander R. Stringfellow
Mother: Agness
Marr: Chickasaw, Mississippi
Children: Eli Thompson (1856-<1904)
Mary J. (1835-)
Nancy (1838-)
Edward (1841-)
James (1843-)
Rachael (1844-)
William A. (1850-)
1.1a.1.1.1 Eli Thompson Sims
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Birth: 1856, Calhoun County, Mississippi
Death: bef 1904, Oklahoma
Occ: Farmer
Spouse: Missouri Catherine Hardin
Birth: Jun 1858, Calhoun County, Mississippi
Death: Le Flore County, Oklahoma
Father: Stephen Edward Hardin (~1815-<1880)
Mother: Nancy Smith (~1819-~1887)
Children: Marshall Fountain (1881-)
Walter Thompson (1878-1910)
Hosea Thornton (1879-)
Permeina Bell aka Minnie (1880-)
Mary Elizabeth (1883-)
James Banta (1886-)
Minte Sil Vandy (1887-)
Monroe (1889-)
Lydia M. (1891-)
Henry W. (1892-)
Dovie Lenora (1894-)
Hartie Evina (1899-)