Family: Rev. Alfred Cuthbert Sims / Francis Amanda Allen (F1319)

• Father | Male Rev. Alfred Cuthbert Sims

  
  

  Born	5 Apr 1845	Texas
  Died	19 Jan 1920	Jasper County, Texas
  Buried		Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Married	15 Sep 1884  [1]
  Other Spouse	Rachell Laura Arabella Segrest | F4281
  Married	8 Dec 1869	Tyler County, Texas
  Father	John Sims | F4282 Group Sheet
  Mother	Apoles Sanderson Foster | F4282 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Francis Amanda Allen

  
  

  Born	1 Sep 1853	Jasper County, Texas
  Died	1 Dec 1933	Jasper County, Texas
  Buried		Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Father	John M. Allen | F2272 Group Sheet
  Mother	Ann Thyrxa/Thriza Thomason | F2272 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Mary "Matie" Frances Sims

  
  

  Born	6 Jul 1886	Jasper County, Texas
  Died	1 May 1932	Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Buried		Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Spouse	Millard Harrison Morgan | F3115
  Married	22 Feb 1906	Jasper County, Texas

  
  

  Child 2 | Male William Allen Sims

  
  

  Born	Jun 1887	Jasper County, Texas
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 3 | Male Albert Cuthbert Sims

  
  

  Born	17 Jan 1889	Jasper County, Texas
  Died	6 Aug 1960	Jasper County, Texas
  Buried		Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Spouse	Ruth E. Bounds | F4515
  Married	Abt 1920

  
  

  Child 4 | Female Nancy "Nannie" Octavene Sims

  
  

  Born	29 Feb 1892	Jasper County, Texas
  Died	15 Mar 1965	Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas
  Buried		Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Spouse	Thomas Franklin McLemore | F1318
  Married	24 Apr 1907	Sims Home, Jasper County, Texas

  
  

  Child 5 | Female Kate Elizabeth Sims

  
  

  Born	Dec 1893	Jasper County, Texas
  Died	28 Feb 1978	Jasper County, Texas
  Buried		Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Spouse	Ivy Augustus McLemore | F1320
  Married	24 Apr 1907	Jasper County, Texas

  
  

• Notes

  Married: In August, 1884, A.C. Sims wrote this letter to Miss Fannie Allen, a maiden woman of 31 years. They were married in September. Beech Grove Jasper County, Texas August 8th, 1884 Miss Fannie Allen, I trust that you will forgive my presumption in thus addressing you without first having obtained your permission to do so. Though I am a stranger to you, yet your bright smiles haunt me still so that you no longer seem as a stranger to me, and I cannot forbear the temptations longer that I have to make known to you some of my thoughts, affections and wishes, and fearing lest I should not have such an opportunity as I would desire to express my sentiments, were I to visit you, I have concluded to adopt this medium of expression. Affection is sometimes of slow growth and again it springs up in a moment and I hope you will pardon me for confessing the truth by declaring to you my love for you at first sight and you will not, I trust, think it so strange of it when you shall learn of the favorable reports which I have received of you which taken in connection with your personal beauty I think sifficient cause to engage the affections of even the most fastidious. I of course cannot hope to have made so favorable an impression on your mind on so short an acquantance but I do not know what is in your heart or what might be hereafter and I therefore desire to give expression of my feelings and learn my fate before it is too late. I wish that you may therefore after serious consideration of this letter to inform me whether or not I shall cherish this feeling or shall I smother it at once. I fully believe that when two like hearts meet that it is no difficult taks for them to determine that fact and I cannot help entertaining a hope that you are one that I am in search of and in futher testimony there of I will relate to you a strange circumstance. Before arriving at your house last Sunday, I asked a sign of the Lord that if either of the three ladies that were there should be the one that she might show it by asking me if I had not been to dinner. I hope that the answer is from the Lord and that he may awaken in your bosom the same feeling that I now experience for you. If you should see fit to answer this letter direct it to me at Town Bluff, Texas. If you should wish to send it by hand you need not be afraid to deposit it with your Cousin Dug as she is aware that I have written this to you but no one else, Respectfully, A.C. Sims (Courtesy of Candie Ann Marie Sims) The 1900 Census showed they had been married 16 years, and that she was the mother of 5 children, all living.

  
  

• Sources

  [S438] Truett, Versie, Family Researcher Rt 1, Box 227A Zavalla, TX 75980.