Brief Life History of Thomas Sims
When Thomas Sims Jones was born on 28 September 1883, in New Harmony, Pike, Missouri, United States, his father, Adam Jones, was 28 and his mother, Eliza J. Sims, was 22. He married Ora Lee Johnston on 10 October 1906, in Boone, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Hartford Township, Pike, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Prairie Township, Montgomery, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 December 1957, in Warren, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Middletown, Montgomery, Missouri, United States.
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- Tom S Jones, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Sims Jones - Government record: birth-name: Thomas Sims Jones
- Thomas S Jones, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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