Sherrod Sims

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DAR Ancestor #: A104057

"My paternal great grandfather Sherrod Sims was born in Virginia 1730. I remember the date well because he told me he was at Braddock's defeat 1755 and that he was then twenty five years old. He served through the Revolutionary War and afterward removed from Virginia with his family to the Beaver Creek neighborhood in the southern part of Lancaster County, South Carolina. When I was ten or eleven years old he showed me a document with Washington's name signed to it but I did not have sense enough to appreciate it or care to know what it was. He was a tall raw boned splendid old man six feet high when I saw him last in 1824. He died of old age in 1825 at the age of ninety five having survived his wife twenty five years. He had five or six sons and two daughters." -James Marion Sims

According to a transcript of his will, he had the following children (birth order uncertain):

• Fanny (Sims) Hammond (deceased by 1813)
• Sarah Sims
• Sherrod Sims
• Stephen Sims
• Elliott Sims
• Jude Howel (daughter, married a Howel)
• Ashbourn Sims
• Elizabeth Anderson Howell (married twice? Once to an Anderson and once to a Howell?)
• Polly Lacy (Sims) Graves

His wife was not mentioned either, and was presumably deceased also.

origins

From http://genforum.genealogy.com/sims/messages/6731.html 2012 post from Charles Sims:

As a well documented descendant of William (Symes) Sims (c.1650 - 1725/26) and his 2nd wife, Frances (nee?) I've devoted more than half of my 71 years of age to Sims family research. ....

The names of the parents of Sherrod Sims are not documented and I've seen no evidence supporting that he was a son of John Sims and wife, Mary Rice.

Records support that Sherrod Sims was born abt. 1730 in Virginia, but not in which county. Records support that he died at age 95 in Lancaster County, South Carolina.

I've seen no evidence that he was ever in Virginia Counties of New Kent or Hanover. Also, have seen no evidence of the names of his parents.

Speculation suggests that he was of Scottish ancestry and related to Pariss Sims as reported in the book by Almon J. Sims.

From Sims - 1965 edition by Almon Sims

Chapter One - Ancient Records of the Family

About the year 1765, three brothers, Pariss (Parish), Robert and Abraham Sims, emigrated from Belfast, Ulster in North Ireland, to Pennsylvania. It is believed, based on research of early Sims families of Virginia and North Carolina, that four older brothers, William, Thomas, John and James, came to America and settled in those states, before 1765. ....

From Sims - 1965 edition by Almon Sims

Chapter Nineteen - Related Sims Families

Several Sims families, believed to be related to Pariss Sims and his brothers, came to America from North Ireland about the same time. Some came earlier. Some came direct from England and Scotland. ...

Dr. James Marion Sims, famous American surgeon, born in Lancester County, S. C., Jan. 25, 1813, is believed to have been a descendant of an uncle of Pariss Sims and his brothers. Sherrod Sims (I), the great grandfather of Dr. Sims, was born in Virginia in 1730; was a soldier in the colonial army, at the defeat of Braddock's army in 1755; also a soldier in the Revolutionary War. After the war Sherrod moved his family from Virginia to Beaver Creek in the Southern part of Lancaster County, South Carolina, where he died in 1825 at the age of 95. ...

Links

• http://genforum.genealogy.com/sims/messages/6785.html
• Sims Family of Lancaster

One common failing of genealogists, even ones who should know better, is the belief that people with the same last name "should" be related to each other. This is not necessarily so, and Y-DNA evidence is now proving that, very often, they are not.

There were, at last report, some fifteen different Sims/Symes family groups, plus a number of unconnected outliers. Which group this particular Sims family fits into is as yet unknown.