When Rebecca Sims was born about 1772, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, Zachariah Sims, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Graves, was 20. She married Lewis Pugh in 1793, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died before 30 January 1841, in Alabama, United States, at the age of 69.