Kate Elizabeth Sims

1893 - 1978  (~ 84 years)

• Name	Kate Elizabeth Sims  [1]
  Born	Dec 1893	Jasper County, Texas
  Gender	Female
  Died	28 Feb 1978	Jasper County, Texas
  Buried	Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
  Person ID	I2015	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Rev. Alfred Cuthbert Sims,   b. 5 Apr 1845, Texas ,   d. 19 Jan 1920, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Francis Amanda Allen,   b. 1 Sep 1853, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 1 Dec 1933, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 80 years)
  Married	15 Sep 1884  [2]
  	In August, 1884, A.C. Sims wrote this letter to Miss Fannie Allen, a maiden woman of 31 years. They were married in September. Beech Grove Jasper County, Texas August 8th, 1884 Miss Fannie Allen, I trust that you will forgive my presumption in thus addressing you without first having obtained your permission to do so. Though I am a stranger to you, yet your bright smiles haunt me still so that you no longer seem as a stranger to me, and I cannot forbear the temptations longer that I have to make known to you some of my thoughts, affections and wishes, and fearing lest I should not have such an opportunity as I would desire to express my sentiments, were I to visit you, I have concluded to adopt this medium of expression. Affection is sometimes of slow growth and again it springs up in a moment and I hope you will pardon me for confessing the truth by declaring to you my love for you at first sight and you will not, I trust, think it so strange of it when you shall learn of the favorable reports which I have received of you which taken in connection with your personal beauty I think sifficient cause to engage the affections of even the most fastidious. I of course cannot hope to have made so favorable an impression on your mind on so short an acquantance but I do not know what is in your heart or what might be hereafter and I therefore desire to give expression of my feelings and learn my fate before it is too late. I wish that you may therefore after serious consideration of this letter to inform me whether or not I shall cherish this feeling or shall I smother it at once. I fully believe that when two like hearts meet that it is no difficult taks for them to determine that fact and I cannot help entertaining a hope that you are one that I am in search of and in futher testimony there of I will relate to you a strange circumstance. Before arriving at your house last Sunday, I asked a sign of the Lord that if either of the three ladies that were there should be the one that she might show it by asking me if I had not been to dinner. I hope that the answer is from the Lord and that he may awaken in your bosom the same feeling that I now experience for you. If you should see fit to answer this letter direct it to me at Town Bluff, Texas. If you should wish to send it by hand you need not be afraid to deposit it with your Cousin Dug as she is aware that I have written this to you but no one else, Respectfully, A.C. Sims (Courtesy of Candie Ann Marie Sims) The 1900 Census showed they had been married 16 years, and that she was the mother of 5 children, all living.
  Family ID	F1319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ivy Augustus McLemore,   b. 4 Dec 1888, Erin, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 3 Dec 1980, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 91 years)
  Married	24 Apr 1907	Jasper County, Texas
  	He married Kate Elizabeth Sims 9-4-1910, the sister of his brother Frank's wife. He later bought her father's farm where he and Kate lived out their lives. (Nan Kittell).
  Children	1. Elsie Fay McLemore,   b. 20 Dec 1911, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 4 Mar 1992, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 80 years)   2. Harvol Hoy McLemore,   b. 17 Oct 1913, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 6 Aug 1996, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas  (Age 82 years)   3. Irma Mae McLemore,   b. 12 Feb 1916, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. Sep 2006  (Age 90 years)   4. Ivy Earl McLemore,   b. 15 Mar 1918, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 12 Mar 2003, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 84 years)   5. James Walker McLemore,   b. 2 Oct 1919, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 19 Jun 2000, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 80 years)   6. Annie Marie McLemore,   b. 13 Nov 1921, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 10 Sep 2011, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas  (Age 89 years)   7. Living   8. Tommie Dan McLemore,   b. 21 Nov 1927, Jasper County, Texas ,   d. 18 Jan 2006, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee  (Age 78 years)   9. Living
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006
  Family ID	F1320	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Dec 1893 - Jasper County, Texas Married - 24 Apr 1907 - Jasper County, Texas Died - 28 Feb 1978 - Jasper County, Texas Buried - - Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Headstones

  McLemore, Ivy A and Kate E. (Sims)

  
  

• Sources

  [S163] Kittell, Nan McCoy--Samuel McFarland McLemore and Descendants, Living Family History (Unpublished typescript ca. 1984, updated periodically). [S438] Truett, Versie, Family Researcher Rt 1, Box 227A Zavalla, TX 75980.