MARION COUNTY, GA - BIOS Stephen Sims

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 491
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


MARION COUNTY


Stephen Sims, farmer, Friendship, Marion Co., Ga., son of John
and Rebecca (Harris) Sims, was born in Jones county, Ga., in
1815.  His grandfather Sims was a Virginian, and lived and died
in the “old dominion”.  His father was born in Virginia, came
to Georgia when a young man, and settled in Warren county,
where he married.  He afterward moved to Jones county, Ga.,
farmed and reared his family.  Later in life he moved to Marion
county, where he died.  Mr. Sims’ maternal grandfather,
Benjamin Harris, was an early settler of Warren county, where
he remained during his life.  Mr. Sims spent his boyhood on the
farm, attended school at the log school house so common at that
time and followed farming all his life.  He began life as an
overseer and having saved some money made his first land
purchase in 1846, and has added to it until now he has an
excellent body of nearly 500 acres of land with a good farm and
home on it.  He was a soldier in the Indian war in 1836.  Mr.
Sims was married in 1838 to Miss Emily Banks, born in Jasper
county, Ga., in 1822, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Alewine)
Banks.  Mr. Banks was a native of what is now Jasper county,
and reared a farmer and followed farming all his life.  Six
children blessed this marriage: Mary and Henry living, and
William, John, George and Albert, deceased.  Mrs. Sims, who was
a member of the Methodist church, died in 1891.  Mr. Sims is a
master Mason and is highly respected by all who know him.