When Perry Glenn Sims was born on 10 September 1858, in White, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, his father, Oliver Hazzard Perry Sims, was 36 and his mother, Eliza Jane Glenn, was 40. He married Mary Lee Metcalf on 15 July 1884, in White, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Mountainburg, Crawford, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Wellington, Collingsworth, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 29 April 1941, in Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Wellington, Collingsworth, Texas, United States.
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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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