William Allen Sims

1887 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	William Allen Sims  [1]
  Birth	Jun 1887	Jasper County, Texas
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I10025	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)
  Marriage	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

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Jun 1887 - Jasper County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S362] Sims, Candie--Family Researcher (candiestree@yahoo.com). [S438] Truett, Versie, Family Researcher Rt 1, Box 227A Zavalla, TX 75980.