Greene-Grant County IN Archives Biographies.....Sims, George W. 1840 - 1877
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   GEORGE W. SIMS, deceased, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, December 6,
1840, and is one of thirteen children born to Elkana and Nancy (Ford) Sims. He
acquired a common school education in his native county, and engaged in the
grocery business at Groveport, Ohio, when a young man. His nuptials with Malinda
J. Maddux, of Fayette County, Ohio, were celebrated September 22, 1861, and
together they raised a family of four children—Tillie A., Asenath J., Nancy B.
and Thomas E., all living but the last. Mr. Sims came to Indiana and settled in
Grant County in April, 1862, where he lived until August, 1865; whence he came
to Greene County, at Linton. Soon afterward, he settled in Stafford Township and
followed mostly the business of farming, though at intervals was engaged in
threshing. His political proclivities were Democratic, and he took great
interest in public affairs, holding several township offices. He was a member of
the Baptist Church, and his death, which occurred May 12, 1877, was cause for
great regret among neighbors and friends. In his will, all the property was
given to his wife, who still survives him and conducts the business of the farm
in connection with a hotel at Marco, Ind., in all of which she is greatly
successful.

Additional Comments:
Stafford Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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