A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 
800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and 
Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes.  Printed For the 
Author.  1886.  Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 
Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, page 31.  [Oldham County]

JAMES SIMS was a native of Virginia, and was born about the year 1768.  
He moved with a large family to Bourbon county, Kentucky in 1812.  Here 
he united with the church as Paris.  He afterwards joined Lower Bethel 
church, where he was an ordained minister as early as 1822.  He was cut 
off from the Baptists with the Campbellite faction in 1830.  After this 
he moved to Oldham county, where he died, April 26, 1856, in the 88th 
year of his age.  Of his life and ministry little is now known.

Sims
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Bourbon-KY

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