Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sims, Jim June 1900
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Jackson Argus - Wk of Jun 8, 1900
Jim Sims Died

Jim Sims, the young man who was announced ill in these columns last week is 
dead.

The circumstances concerning the death of the young man are remarkable.   Dr. 
J. Lee Byron was the attending physician and he says that this case was a 
revelation to him on account of the absence of the horrible manifestations that 
accompany hydrophobia.

Sims was stricken down on Monday of last week; the symptoms indicated 
hydrophobia; on Tuesday Dr. Byron pronounced the disease hydrophobia.  The 
first attack of convulsions came on Thursday night about a half dozen 
consecutively and then not another spasm.  The patient lived until Saturday 
morning, 3 o’clock, and died.

“Sims was of a happy disposition,” said Dr. Byron, and the intervals of sleep 
he had for more than 24 hours preceding death seemed to be pleasant, as smiles 
would play over his face as over the face of a happy dreaming baby.

It is a remarkable fact that disease ran its course without causing the 
horrible suffering which characterized this malady.

Sims was buried here on Sunday, Rev. J. E. Pound conducting the funeral

Jackson Argus – Butts County
Week of June 8,1900


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