Individual Details

Alvin Huff Sims

(17 Nov 1874 - 18 Nov 1949)

Events

Birth17 Nov 1874Jamestown, Fentress, Tennessee, United States
Census-shared1880(Thomas Jefferson Sims) Jamestown, Fentress, Tennessee, United States
Marriage25 Nov 1894Scott, Tennessee, United States - Amanda Jones
Census1900Morgan, Tennessee, United States
OccupationAft 1900Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census1910Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census1920Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census1930Elgin, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census1940Elgin, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Death18 Nov 1949Died during prostate surgery - Fort Sanders Hospital,, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States
Occupation18 Nov 1949Farmer
BurialArchie L Lewallen Cemetery, Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
OccupationDinkey engine engineer

Families

SpouseAmanda Jones (1868 - 1938)
ChildWilliam Arthur Sims (1895 - 1968)
ChildThomas Asbury Sims (1897 - 1970)
ChildJosie Sims (1902 - )
ChildEverette C Sims (1905 - 1926)
ChildTony Egbert Sims (1908 - 1988)
FatherThomas Jefferson Sims (1837 - 1913)
MotherPriscilla "Siller" Lavender (1848 - 1920)

Notes

Census

Day laborer

Occupation

"Near the company store and community well was the large
boarding house. The Alvin Sims/ family lived here and Mrs.
Sims ran the boarding house in the early years of the
century." ...
"A colored lady by the name of Singleton helped
with the cooking. There is still a water cistern built of
brick and evidence of a rock cellar that was under the
house."

Census

Coal miner

Census

Blacksmith at brick plant.

Census

Laborer for state highway.

Census

Widower. No occupation listed.

Burial

Per death certificate

Occupation

Mr. Alvin Sims ran the Dinkey engine and had as his helper a young negro lad. The lad's name was Goggins. Because Goggins was not able to count, each time he coupled one of the cars, brought up from the mines by the mules, to the engine he made a vertical sign with his hand and arm. Mr. Sims tallied the signs and when he had 25, he gave Goggins a sign with his hand and arm that was horizontal. This meant they had a load ready to go to the Tip House. The dinkey track was built so there was a slight decline on the way down to make transportation of the coal easier. However, Goggins could race through the woods on foot and be at the Tip House waiting for the load of coal when the dinkey arrived.

Endnotes

1. Tennessee Death Records 1908-1958.

2. Tennessee Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=TNDelayBirthRecs&h=1198655&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=6224.

3. , http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=Numident&h=12470933&tid=54289153&pid=13642539469&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&rhSource=2376.

4. 1880 Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1880usfedcen&h=15505250&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&rhSource=60901.

5. Tennessee, Marriages 1851-1900.

6. Tennessee State Marriages 1780-2002.

7. United States Census for 1900.

8. Maggie Barger, Remembering Coal Hill (Scott County (TN) Historical Society), page 11.

9. 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.

10. United States Census for 1920.

11. United States Census for 1930.

12. United States Census for 1940.

13. Tennessee Death Records 1908-1958.

14. , http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=Numident&h=12470933&tid=54289153&pid=13642539469&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&rhSource=2376.

15. Tennessee Death Records 1908-1958.

16. Tennessee Death Records 1908-1958.

17. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=140149675&ref=acom.

18. Maggie Barger, Remembering Coal Hill (Scott County (TN) Historical Society), 14.