Earl Appleton Simms (1874 - 1960)

Born 15 Dec 1874 in Sulphur Springs Texas

Ancestors

Son of Thomas Kendrick Simms and Susan Ophelia (Rowe) Simms

Descendants

Died 1960 at about age 85 in OKlahoma City, Oklahoma

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Biography

Moved to OK with his parents and all the younger siblings in the late 1880s; they had purchased 12,000 acres of farmland in Garvin County Oklahoma near Chickasha. Married Laura V. Pogue April 15, in Hopkins, Texas in 1897.

Sources

"Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2MC-4TN : accessed 6 June 2015), E. A. Simms and Laura Pogue, 15 Apr 1897; citing Hopkins, Hopkins, Texas, , reference ; FHL microfilm 1,298,850.

"United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBVQ-F1L : accessed 29 May 2015), Earl A Simms, Pursley Township, Grady, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-30, sheet 2B, family 33, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 3295.

Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).