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Francis Amanda Allen

Female 1853 - 1933  (80 years)


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  • Name Francis Amanda Allen  [1
    Birth 1 Sep 1853  Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 1 Dec 1933  Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • At the time of hte 1930 Federal Census, she was living with her son and daughter-in-law, Albert and Ruth Sims, in Jasper.
    Person ID I4046  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father John M. Allen,   b. Abt 1823, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1860 (Age ~ 36 years) 
    Mother Ann Thyrxa/Thriza Thomason,   b. 1 Aug 1832, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jan 1893 (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage 21 May 1853  Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • Versie Truett shows they were married in Louisiana, whearas Barbara Yancey Dore instead shows the marriage taking place in Jasper County, Texas. Need to verify.
    Family ID F2272  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rev. Alfred Cuthbert Sims,   b. 5 Apr 1845, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jan 1920, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 15 Sep 1884  [1
    • 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.
    Children 
     1. Mary "Matie" Frances Sims,   b. 6 Jul 1886, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1932, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)
     2. William Allen Sims,   b. Jun 1887, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Albert Cuthbert Sims,   b. 17 Jan 1889, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Aug 1960, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     4. Nancy "Nannie" Octavene Sims,   b. 29 Feb 1892, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Mar 1965, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     5. Kate Elizabeth Sims,   b. Dec 1893, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Feb 1978, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 84 years)
    Family ID F1319  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Sep 1853 - Jasper County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1 Dec 1933 - Jasper County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Headstones
    Sims, Francis Amanda (Allen)
    Sims, Francis Amanda (Allen)

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

    2. [S327] Dore, Barbara Yancey (RootsLady@rootslady.com) "Southeast Texas Regional Gedcom Project" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bydore_1, (Dore, Barbara Yancey "Southeast Texas Regional Gedcom Project"; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bydore_1 ; Updated Tue Feb 24 22:17:40 2004 This Gedcom contains many regionally located but sometimes unconnected Southeast Texas persons. Some of the information has been collected during Barbara's past 35 years of family research. Many undocumented families in the area are included. ALWAYS verify!!).