Mrs. Effie Amos Sims Obituary



CROCKETT COUNTY SENTINEL
VOLUME 76 NUMBER 43
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1949
BELLS, TENNESSEE

DEATH-- Mrs. J. P. SIMS died at the home of her son, Leslie SIMS in Alamo Tuesday at 3 a. m. A member of a West Tennessee pioneer family, she was born in Trenton in 1872 and was the daughter of the late Tom AMOS. She came to Crockett County as a school teacher in her teens and made her home with her sister, the late Mrs. Kate MOORE. Here she met and married Dr. J. P. SIMS. She leaves two sons, Leslie SIMS, Editor of this paper and Paul SIMS, Editor of the States Graphic in Brownsville; one daughter, Mrs. W. L. HARDISON, of Chicago, Illinois. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Church of Christ in Friendship, burial in Bell Vernon Cemetery.


Effie Amos married Dr. John P. Sims in 1890 in Gibson Co., TN


Contributed by Sarah Hutcherson


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