Wilkes County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sims, Pierre Robert October 25, 1952
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Washington-Wilkes News-Reporter, 30 October 1952
Last Rites Held For Pierre Robert Sims
The death on Saturday night of Pierre Robert Sims, at his home, The Cedars, 
brought sorrow to many friends who had known him since boyhood. Mr. Sims had 
been in failing health for the past year, and was desperately ill in the 
summer, but rallied and had been well enough recently to be in his place at 
the Methodist Sunday School, and among his friends down town. He became 
acutely ill on Wednesday and the end came at 11 O'clock Saturday night.

He was born in Wilkes County 79 years ago, the elder of two sons of the late 
Mary Robert Sims and Marshall Mercer Sims. For many years Mr. Sims was 
associated with his father in the cotton business here, and was a farmer. In 
his early manhood he was married to the late Sarah Boyd, who died in 1908. Of 
this marriage there is one child, a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Sims Way. In later 
years he married the former Miss Virginia Morris Green, who died about three 
years ago.

Mr. Sims was a Mason, and a devout and devoted member of the Methodist Church 
and at the services Monday afternoon, the many beautiful flowers were arranged 
in the church and at the cemetery by the women in whose Sunday School class he 
had led the devotional every Sunday.

The funeral service at the Methodist Church at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon was 
conducted by the Rev. Hubert Dodd, pastor, and the Rev. H.C. Emory, former 
pastor. Interment was in Resthaven cemetery, with nephews as pallbearers. 
James and Marshall Reynolds, Redding DeVaughn, W.R. Latimer, Jr., and Fortson 
Boyd.

Besides his daughter, Mrs. Sara Sims Way, and her adopted son, James Edward 
Way, of Brunswick, Mr. Sims is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Bessie DeVaughn, 
Mrs. T.J. Barksdale, Mrs. W.R. Latimer, all of Washington, and Mrs. Louen 
Green, of Ocala, Fla.; one brother, Redding Sims, of New Orleans; and a large 
number of nieces and nephews.


Additional Comments:
James Reynolds is James Erasmus Reynolds, Jr., so of James Erasmus Reynolds, 
Sr., and Frances Clifford Simms.
Redding DeVaughn is Naval Lieutenant Commander James Redding Sherwood 
DeVaughn, son of McLendon Sherwood DeVaughn and Annie Elisabeth “Bessie” Sims.
W.R. Latimer, Jr. is son of William Robert Latimer and Mary Martia Sims.
Mrs. T.J. Barksdale is Willamette “Wil Mat” Sims.
Mrs. Louen Green is Edna Ervine Sims

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