Individual Details

William Arthur Sims

(10 Nov 1895 - 24 Apr 1968)

Events

Birth10 Nov 1895Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census1900Morgan, Tennessee, United States
Census-shared1900(Alvin Huff Sims) Morgan, Tennessee, United States
Census1910Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Occupation1910Coal miner - Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census-shared1910(Alvin Huff Sims) Scott, Tennessee, United States
Occupation5 Jun 1917Laborer for Glenmary Lumber and Coal Company - Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Travel27 Mar 1918Saint-Nazaire, Aquitaine, France
Military26 May 1918Camp Pike, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
Marriage19 Aug 1919Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States - Lettie Davidson
Census1920Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Occupation1920Laborer in planing mill - Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census-shared1920(Jane "Gin" Dixon) Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census19303911 Fairmount Blvd NE, Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States
Census-shared1930(Lettie Davidson) 3911 Fairmount Blvd NE, Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States
Census19403909 Fairmount Blvd NE, Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States
Death24 Apr 1968Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States
Military ServiceOhio, United States
BurialForest Hill Cemetery, Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States

Families

SpouseLettie Davidson (1890 - 1969)
FatherAlvin Huff Sims (1874 - 1949)
MotherAmanda Jones (1868 - 1938)
SiblingThomas Asbury Sims (1897 - 1970)
SiblingJosie Sims (1902 - )
SiblingEverette C Sims (1905 - 1926)
SiblingTony Egbert Sims (1908 - 1988)

Notes

Census-shared

Day laborer

Census-shared

Coal miner

Military

118th Infantry

Census

Living with Jane Davidson and Lettie

Census-shared

Listed as "Gin" Davidson. Lettie and Arthur living with her. Owned her home free of mortgage.

Census

Duplex with Edward and Mary

Census

Press operator at a steel mill

Military Service

OHIO PVT Co E 118 Inf WWI

Endnotes

1. Tennessee Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909.

2. United States Census for 1900.

3. United States Census for 1900.

4. United States Census for 1910.

5. United States Census for 1910.

6. United States Census for 1910, http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7884&iid=4449788_00733&fn=Alvin&ln=Sims&st=r&ssrc=pt_t54289153_p13642539469&pid=27399723.

7. , US World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918 (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

8. US Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty 1917–1918, Select States.

9. , https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61174&h=9232302&indiv=try&requr=281474977005568&ur=0&lang=en-US.

10. Tennessee State Marriages 1780-2002.

11. United States Census for 1920, http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=6061&iid=4390805_00631.

12. United States Census for 1920.

13. United States Census for 1920.

14. United States Census for 1930.

15. United States Census for 1930, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4CL-FZP.

16. United States Census for 1940, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1940usfedcen&indiv=try&h=29786580.

17. Ohio Department of Health. Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007 [database on-line]., Ohio Death Index 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.).

18. Ohio Deaths 1908-1932, 1938-2007, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=5763&h=3563145&indiv=try.

19. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52313449.

20. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=330279&GRid=52313449&.