Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Shelby Co.

J. S. SIMS was born in Virginia, in 1853, and moved to Indiana when quite
small, where he was reared and educated, graduating at Asbury University
in 1876 with the degree of A. M.  His father, James Sims, was born in
Rappahannock County, Va.; later moved to Indiana, where he is still
engaged in farming in Bartholomew County.  J. S. Sims entered the Methodist
Episcopal Conference (South) of Kentucky, in September 1876.  He served two
years in Lewis County, two in Lincoln and four in Fleming, and is now in
his first year in Shelby, having been appointed to Shelbyville, where there
is a much larger field of labor and membership, viz., 225. He is a member
of the Masonic Fraternity, the I.O.O.F. and the K. of H.  In 1878 he
married Miss Mary Lovel, daughter of Hon. R. B. Lovel, who has been State
senator of Lewis and Mason Counties.  Mr. Sims has been very successful
in his calling, and has been retained the full time at each of his
appointments, which is rather rare, and is always evidence of success and
satisfaction.  He is among the very promising young ministers in the South,
and his success, so far, has come from the fact of his trying to do his
duty in the field to which God has called him.  His mother was Mary A.
Thompson, from Ohio, daughter of John Thompson.

Sims Lovel Thompson
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Rappahannock-VA Bartholomew-IN Lewis-KY Fleming-KY Lincoln-KY Mason-KY OH

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