Pictures
Home built over 400 years ago from stone of the ancient Tower, the Strong Place of the Sym Clan at Yetholm, Scotland, dating back to 1066 A. D. Picture made by the Author in 1956. See Chapter One.
First Homeplace of the Sims family in Wayne County, Tenn., built by Matthew J. Sims, below, on the Dry Creek prong of Indian Creek in 1840--still in the family in 1965. See Chapter Five.
Matthew J. Sims, oldest grandson of Pariss Sims, 1816-1890, and his wife, Dorothy Greeson Sims. See Chapter Five.
Shields Sims, 1838-1927, and wife, Melinda Youngblood Sims; great grandson of Pangs Sims. See Chapter Six.
Judge Joe Sims left, chairman of Family Reunion in 1948 and the only living great grandson of Pariss Sims in 1966--age 90 years. Next to him is my brother, Raymond Sims, and Homer Sims, our only first cousin by the Sims name. See Chapters Two and Twelve.
Four Generations, from left: Shields Sims, fourth; M. J. Sims, fifth; A. J. Sims, sixth; A. J. Sims, Jr., seventh.
Oldest members of family at the Sims Reunion on Indian Creek in 1948 -- left to right: M. J. Sims, age 80, and Willie Sims, age 86 -- great, great grandsons of Paris Sims, and, Mark Sutherland, age 90, a great grandson of Pariss Sims.
George Washington Sims, right, of Red Bay, Ala., and his children -- except one son, killed in World War One. He died in 1956 at the age of 95. He was a descendant of John Sims, the fifth son of Pariss Sims. See Chapter Sixteen.
Modified: 5/12/02
