Rev. Alfred Cuthbert Sims

1845 - 1920  (74 years)

• Name	Alfred Cuthbert Sims  [1]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	5 Apr 1845	Texas   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Jan 1920	Jasper County, Texas
  Burial	Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Notes	In A.C. Sims' memoirs of the Civil War, he tells that he joined up with General Hood's Texas Regiment in Georgia after the death of this twin brother, Hub in Arkansas. His elder brother, Tom, was an officer in the Confederate Army. A.C. suffered much illness during the period he was in Georgia. Upon the end of the fighting, he returned home to East Texas where he was a teacher and later a Baptist Minister. He first married Rachell Segrest, and on the 1870 Tyler County census, they were living in the home of Rachell's father, Jacob Segrist. About 3 months after the birth of Apless Arabella, Rachell died, leaving A.C. with 5 children under the age of 10. He later married Fannie Allen, and they had 5 more children. His last will and testament was very simple: State of Texas Jasper, Jasper County 21 January 1903 To all whom it may concern: Know by these prescence that it is my will that my beloved wife F.A. Sims after my decease shall retain full possession of all that is called mine as a means of support until her death provided, however, she remains single. In the event that she should marry again or die, all properties in anywise belonging to me be equally divided between my ten children. Written with mine own hand this 21 day of January A.D. 1903. A.C. Sims (The foregoing information is courtesy of Candie Sims. A. C. Sims's full memoirs of the Civil War, orginally published inthe JASPER NEWS BOY on May 17, 1911, can be found on Candie's website: http://CandiesTree.webjump.com/ )
  Person ID	I9305	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	John Sims,   b. Abt 1812, Georgia d. Abt 1847, Woodville, Tyler County, Texas (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Apoles Sanderson Foster,   b. 8 May 1812, Wilkes County, Georgia d. 18 Feb 1877, Tyler County, Texas (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F4282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Rachell Laura Arabella Segrest,   b. Abt 1851, Alabama d. Between 1880 and 1881 (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	8 Dec 1869	Tyler County, Texas   [2]
  Children	1. Jacob Francis Sims,   b. Abt 1870, Texas d. Yes, date unknown   2. Lora Ellen Sims,   b. Abt 1872, Texas d. Yes, date unknown   3. James Russell Sims,   b. 16 Oct 1873, Texas d. 17 Mar 1940, Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas (Age 66 years)   4. Stephen Day Sims,   b. 7 Mar 1878, Woodville, Tyler County, Texas d. 10 May 1938, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas (Age 60 years)   5. Applis Arabella "Bell" Sims,   b. 16 Oct 1880, Woodville, Tyler County, Texas d. 12 Jan 1958, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F4281	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

  Family 2	Francis Amanda Allen,   b. 1 Sep 1853, Jasper County, Texas d. 1 Dec 1933, Jasper County, Texas (Age 80 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 - 5 Apr 1845 - Texas Marriage - 8 Dec 1869 - Tyler County, Texas Death - 19 Jan 1920 - Jasper County, Texas Burial - - Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
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• Documents

  Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery (Jasper, Texas) Historical Marker As noted on this marked, the Rev. Sims as a pastor of the Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church.

  
  

  Headstones

  Sims, Rev. A.C.

  
  

• Sources

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