Stephen Sims

Memoirs of Georgia, Volume II

Published by the Southern Historical Assn, 1895.   

Marion County Sketches

Pages 483-492 

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Stephen Sims, farmer, Friendship, Marion County GA, son of John and Rebecca (Harris) Sims, was

born in Jones county GA in 1815.  His grandfather Sims was a Virginian, and lived and died in the "old dominion". 

His father was born in Virginia, came to Georgia when a young man, and settled in Warren county, where

he married.  He afterward moved to Jones county GA, farmed and reared his family.  Later in life he

moved to Marion county, where he died.  Mr Sims' maternal grandfather, Benjamin Harris, was an early

settler of Warren county, where he remained during life.  Mr Sims spent his boyhood on the farm, attended

school at the log school house so common at that time and followed farming all his life.  He began life as

an overseer and having saved some money, made his first land purchase in 1846, and has added to it until

now he has an excellent body of nearly 500 acres of land with a good farm and home on it,.  He was a

soldier in the Indian war in 1836.  Mr Sims was married in 1838 to Miss Emily Banks, born in Jasper County

GA in 1822, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Alewine) Banks.  Mr Banks was a native of what is now Jasper

County, and reared a farmer and followed farming all his life.  Six children blessed this marriage: Mary and

Henry living and William, John, George and Albert, deceased.  Mrs Sims who was a member of the Methodist

church, died in 1891.  Mr Sims is a master Mason and is highly respected by all who know him.

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