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Simon Albert Sims

BIRTH: 28 Mar 1865, Slocum, Newport Twp, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
DEATH: 18 Dec 1944, Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
BURIAL: Stairville Cemetery, Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
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Father: Zura or Zeuras Sims (ABT 1830 - 1885)
Mother: Catherine Arnold (ABT 1830 - ____)

Family 1: Sarah Helen Stout (14 Mar 1873 - ____)

MARRIAGE: 1 Jan 1890, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania

Simon Sims (12 Jul 1890 - 1908)
Gladys Camilla Sims (28 Jul 1892 - 11 Apr 1933)
Nellie Clair Sims (29 Jun 1894 - 20 Nov 1980)
Mary Hazel Sims (25 May 1896 - 1927)
Emma Beatrice Sims (24 Sep 1899 - 9 Jun 1982)
Helen Julia Sims (19 Jun 1902 or 1903 - 26 Jan 1996)
Gordon Lester Sims (29 Mar 1905 - 18 Aug 1945)
Doris Evelyn Sims (2 Dec 1906 - 19 May 1988)

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|--Simon Albert Sims 
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Notes

!SOURCE: Email from Barry Jernigan (email hidden), 10 Dec 1998. Gives name Simon Sims.

!SOURCE: Email from Craig McLaughlin (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 8 Sep 2003. Cites Zura Sims' New Testament and the Sims family bible, in possession of his mother. Gives name Simon Albert Sims.

!SOURCE: Email from Craig McLaughlin to Weldon Whipple, 10 and 21 Nov 2003. Cites obituaries, family groupings "written out many years ago by a relative named WJ Eakland," interviews of Simon Sims' and Sarah Stout's living grandchildren, and census and SSDI records.

!NAME: "Simon Albert Sims may have been born Albert Simon Sims but changed his name because of the initials." --C. McLaughlin, 8 Sep 2003.

!SOURCE: Email from Craig McLaughlin to Weldon Whipple, 21 Nov 2003. Simon is mentioned in an undated, unsourced newspaper clipping of the obituary of his sister, Mrs. Nancy A. Stair.

!CHILDREN: Eight in total. --C. McLaughlin, 21 Nov 2003

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