"North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP8Q-FCC : 10 February 2018), Ben Franklin Sims in entry for George Washington Sims, 09 Jan 1947; citing Tarboro, Edgecombe, North Carolina, v 0A cn 494, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,909,215.