Son of the Rev Elijah Sims and Susannah (Spoon) Sims
Civil war veteran
Served as a corporal in Co. I, 34th Indiana Infantry. Entered Service 10-09-1861, Discharged 02-03-1866,
The Whitehills in America (Heroes and Heroines) written and edited by Samuel Milliken Whitehill, Jr., Patricia Whitehill Halter, and Cassius Furman Whitehill, Jr. (Family Heritage Publishers) p. 362
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4FC-Y4T : 13 December 2017), David M Simms in entry for Elijah Simms, 1860.
"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXX9-1QY : 12 April 2016), David W Sims, Indiana, United States; citing p. 11, family 74, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,799.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDLH-MTZ : 14 August 2017), David Sims, Clarinda, Page, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district ED 154, sheet 429A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0359; FHL microfilm 1,254,359.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9L3-BJB : accessed 18 May 2018), David Sims, Nodaway Township Clarinda city Ward 1-4, Page, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 95, sheet 1A, family 5, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,452.
"Iowa, Armed Forces Grave Registrations, ca. 1835-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL2V-TFTL : 17 October 2017), David W Sims, 18 May 1840; citing Clarinda, Page, Iowa, United States, The State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.; FHL microfilm 2,209,666.
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:362L-G71 : accessed 17 May 2018), entry for David Wesley /Sims/, cites sources; file (2:2:2:MM63-J2C), submitted 27 July 2017 by Betty Dunn_3 [identity withheld for privacy].
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