Sims Family Deaths
From the Lewis county courthouse

Note: Reference at end is (Death Book Volume, Page #, line #)

October 20, 1856 - LUCINDA SIMS - white female.  Died in Lewis 
county of disentary at age 13 years 3 months.  Born in Lewis 
county to LEONARD D and E SIMS.  Informant: father (1, 19, 38)

November 11, 1856 - HANNA SIMS - white female. died in Lewis 
county of disentary.  Born in Lewis county to LEONARD D and 
E SIMS.  Informant: father (1, 19, 39)

Apr(?) 30, 1872 - FLORENCE SIMS - white female.  Died in 
Harrison county of croup at age 8 months.  Born in Harrison 
county to B and HANNAH SIMS.Informant: father (1, 75, 42)

December 1873 - JOHN SIMS - white male married farmer.  Died 
in Lewis county of consumption at age 69 years.  Born in 
Culpepper County to J and MARGARET SIMS.  Informant: SARAH 
A SIMS his wife (1, 83, 27)

September 30, 1874 - THOMAS SIMS - white male unmarried 
farmer.  Died in Jesses Run of unknown causes at age 61 years 
8 months 11 days.  Born in Harrison county to JOHN and MARY 
SIMS.  Informant: B SIMS his sister (1, 87,29)

March 10, 1876 - ELLEN SIMS - white female.  Died in Hackers 
Creek of croup at age 8 months.  Born in Lewis county to 
B and HANNAH SIMS. Informant: father (1, 93, 35)

January 9, 1877 - JOHN K H SIMS - white male farmer.  Died in 
Lewis county of consumption at age 24 years 11 days.  Born 
in Lewis county to J and S SIMS.  Informant: W A SIMS his 
brother (1, 95, 34)

April 20, 1879 - ROSA C SIMS - white female.  Died in H Creek 
from fever at age 5 years 6 months.  Born in WV to B and 
M SIMS.  Informant: father (1,111, 47)

October 11, 1879 - GEORGE W SIMS - white male.  Died in Lewis 
county of an accident at age 6 years.  Born in Lewis county 
to J M and A M SIMS.Informant: father (1, 115, 32)

December 23, 1879 - LEONARD D SIMS - white male married 
blacksmith.  Died in K Creek of rheumatism at age 69 years 
11 months.  Born in VA to J and MARY SIMS.  Informant: E 
MISLIP(?) his daughter (1, 111, 45)

May 29, 1883 - ELIJAH SIMS - white male married farmer.  
Died in Lewis county of kidney affn at age 78 years 4 months.  
Born in Lewis county to WM and SUSAN SIMS.  Informant: ELIZA 
SIMS his wife. (1, 141, 36)

May 31, 1891 - ALFRED SIMS - white male married farmer.  
Died in Gaston of heart failure, rheumatism, and dropsy at 
age 58 years.  Buried at Skin Creek on June 1, 1891. (2, 68, 110)

February 19, 1897 - SARA A SIMS - white female widow.  Died 
in Arnold, Lewis county of cancer at age 74 years.  She was 
born in WV and was buried on February 21, 1897 in Arnold.  
R W DUNCAN of Roanoke, WV was the undertaker (2, 212, 17)

March 20, 1919 - JAMES H SIMS - white male married farmer.  
Died in Weston State Hospital of apoplexy at age 76 years. 
(4, 178)

June 28, 1921 - JEFF DAVIS SIMS - Colored male single laborer.  
Died in Weston State Hospital of exhaustion from terminal 
dementia at age 63 years. (4, 179, 26)

July 15, 1923 - JOHN WESLEY SIMMS - white male widowed 
blacksmith.  Died in Weston of arterio sclerosis senility at 
age 80 years 9 months 19 days (4,181, 8)

January 16, 1924 - AMANDA E SIMS - white female married 
housewife.  Died in Walkersville of periplegia at age 75 years 
3 months 14 days. (4, 181, 23)

August 8, 1924 - ROBERT SIMS - white male single laborer.  
Died in Jane Lew of drowning at age 21 years 4 months 15 
days (4, 181, 27)

August 19, 1929 - JOSEPH G SIMS - white male single hotel 
clerk.  Died in Weston of anemia (loss of blood) attempt 
suicide at age 71 years (4, 186,27)