Francis Amanda Allen

1853 - 1933  (80 years)

• Name	Francis Amanda Allen  [1]
  Birth	1 Sep 1853	Jasper County, Texas   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1 Dec 1933	Jasper County, Texas
  Burial	Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  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 d. Bef 1860 (Age 36 years)
  Mother	Ann Thyrxa/Thriza Thomason,   b. 1 Aug 1832, Alabama d. 26 Jan 1893 (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	21 May 1853	Louisiana   [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 d. 19 Jan 1920, Jasper County, Texas (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 d. 1 May 1932, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas (Age 45 years)   2. William Allen Sims,   b. Jun 1887, Jasper County, Texas d. Yes, date unknown   3. Albert Cuthbert Sims,   b. 17 Jan 1889, Jasper County, Texas d. 6 Aug 1960, Jasper County, Texas (Age 71 years)   4. Nancy "Nannie" Octavene Sims,   b. 29 Feb 1892, Jasper County, Texas d. 15 Mar 1965, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas (Age 73 years)   5. Kate Elizabeth Sims,   b. Dec 1893, Jasper County, Texas d. 28 Feb 1978, Jasper County, Texas (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F1319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

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

  
  

• Headstones

  Sims, Francis Amanda (Allen)

  
  

• Sources

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