Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves Co.

WILLIAM T. SIMS is the son of William and Sarah (Orr) Sims, the father
a native of Alabama and the mother of Tennessee.  Mr. Sims, Sr., is a 
farmer, which vocation he has followed all his life, and is living at
the present time in Calloway County, Ky., where he moved in 1874.  
William T. Sims, a native of Tennessee, passed his youth and early
manhood in working on his father's place, and in 1855 began life for
himself as farmer and lumber merchant, which occupations he followed
until the breaking out of the civil war, in 1861, when he enlisted in
the Forty-sixth Regiment Tennessee Infantry, with which he served until
1865, participating in the battles and skirmishes of Gens. Johnston
and Hood's celebrated campaigns.  He went out as a private, but on
the reorganization of the regiment in 1863 was promoted captain of his
company, and held his commission until mustered out of service at the
close of the war.  Mr. Sims was married, in 1866, to Mrs. Hart, daughter
of Oswell and Macinda (Wheeler) Brown, both natives of Kentucky.  In
1878 he came to his present place of residence, in Lynnville Precinct,
where he owns one of the best improved farms in the county.  He was
elected magistrate in 1878, and again in 1882, and holds the office at
the present time.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and
together with his wife belongs to the Lynnville Methodist Episcopal
Church South.

Sims Orr Johnston Hood Hart Wheeler Brown 
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AL TN Calloway-KY

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