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Sims 1965 Chapter 19 (2454 words) |
 | Knowing that Pariss Sims and his brothers were of Scotch-Irish ancestry, we have made every effort to confine this history to their family lines and those of Sims families believed to be related to them, as stated in the Foreword. |
| John Thomas Simms, born in Sumter County, Ala., in 1856, was a son of William Thomas Simms who was born at Tarboro, Edgecombe County, N. in 1806, moving to Alabama in 1829. |
| John A. Simms told me that it was a tradition in his family that they were related to a family of six or seven brothers who had come to America before the Revolutionary War, settling in Virginia and North Carolina. |
| George Simms (2290 words) |
| George Sims, the son of a successful businessman, was born in London in 1847. |
| Sims wrote in his memoirs that after it was first published it was "vigorously denounced as a mischievous attempt to set the paupers against their betters". |
| Sims was shocked by what he saw and decided he would try to find a way of bringing this information to the notice of the general public. |
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