Nancy "Nannie" Octavene Sims

1892 - 1965  (73 years)

• Name	Nancy "Nannie" Octavene Sims  [1]
  Nickname	Nannie
  Born	29 Feb 1892	Jasper County, Texas   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	15 Mar 1965	Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas   [1]
  Buried	Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Person ID	I2013	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Rev. Alfred Cuthbert Sims,   b. 5 Apr 1845, Texas ,   d. 19 Jan 1920, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Francis Amanda Allen,   b. 1 Sep 1853, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 1 Dec 1933, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 80 years)
  Married	15 Sep 1884  [2]
  	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.
  Family ID	F1319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Franklin McLemore,   b. 2 Oct 1887, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 13 May 1963, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas  (Age 75 years)
  Married	24 Apr 1907	Sims Home, Jasper County, Texas   [1]
  Children	1. Samuel Duard McLemore,   b. 15 Feb 1908, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 31 Mar 1977, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas  (Age 69 years)   2. Leon Cuthbert McLemore,   b. 11 Jun 1909, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 10 Aug 1909, Erin, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 0 years)   3. Emile Victor McLemore,   b. 24 Dec 1912, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 9 Mar 1992, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas  (Age 79 years)   4. Thomas Aubrey McLemore,   b. 11 Sep 1914, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 22 Jun 1915, Erin, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 0 years)   5. Edythe Evelyn McLemore,   b. 15 Oct 1915, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 17 Nov 1996, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 81 years)   6. Terry Franklin McLemore,   b. 21 Nov 1916, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 13 Sep 1998, Jefferson County, Texas  (Age 81 years)   7. Max Leroy McLemore,   b. 31 Mar 1920, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 17 Nov 2005, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas  (Age 85 years)   8. Dru Sims McLemore,   b. 1 Feb 1923, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas ,   d. 19 Aug 1983, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas  (Age 60 years)
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006
  Family ID	F1318	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 29 Feb 1892 - Jasper County, Texas Married - 24 Apr 1907 - Sims Home, Jasper County, Texas Died - 15 Mar 1965 - Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas Buried - - Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  McLemore, Frank ca 1908 with wife Nancy (Sims) and their oldest son, Samuel Duard McLemore Appears to have been taken in Jasper, Texas around 1908, shortly after their son Samuel was born

  
  

  Headstones

  McLemore, Thomas Franklin and Nannie (Sims)

  
  

• Sources

  [S163] Kittell, Nan McCoy--Samuel McFarland McLemore and Descendants, Living Family History (Unpublished typescript ca. 1984, updated periodically). [S438] Truett, Versie, Family Researcher Rt 1, Box 227A Zavalla, TX 75980.