Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed., 1885
Caldwell Co.

R.C. SIMS is the eldest child born to Q.B. and Sarah (Groom) Sims, both
natives of Kentucky.  His grandparents were natives of Virginia and came
to Kentucky at an early date.  R.C. was born in Trigg County, October 15,
1851, and was reared a farmer.  December 16, 1875, he married Sallie
Boyd, who was born in 1858, and who died October 2, 1876; she was the 
mother of one child, George Herman, born September 18, 1876, and now
living.  Mr. Sims is a young man of enterprise, and an ernest advocate of
education and temperance.  He is a member of the Baptist Church and in
politics a Democrat.  He and his father have some of the finest cattle
in this part of the State.  He is also the owner of a well improved farm
of 140 acres.

Sims Groom Boyd
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VA Trigg-KY

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