Susan Tennessee Sims

Brief Life History of Susan Tennessee

When Susan Tennessee Sims was born in May 1849, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Mathias Matthew Sims, was 73 and her mother, Sally Roberson, was 36. She married Thomas Lafayette Rhodes on 14 February 1883, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 16, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 January 1929, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Milton, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Lafayette Rhodes
1858–1950
Susan Tennessee Sims
1849–1929
Marriage: 14 February 1883
Ellis Rhodes
1883–1908
Charlottie Isabell Rhodes
1885–1911
Mary Rosa Rhodes
1889–1965
Martha Pinkie Rhodes
1889–1967

Sources (18)

  • Susan Sims in household of Sally Sims, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Susan Sims, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Susan Tennessee Sims Rhodes, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (southern):

variant of Sim , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

topographic name for one who lived or worked at the house of someone called Symme (Simon).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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