When Oliver Hazzard Perry Sims was born on 4 March 1822, in Brown Cemetery, White, Tennessee, United States, his father, Eli Sims Sr, was 46 and his mother, Rachel Townsend, was 30. He married Eliza Jane Glenn on 26 June 1844, in White, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and White, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 20 April 1900, in Brown Cemetery, White, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in White, Tennessee, 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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