Mrs. Effie Amos Sims Obituary

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.