Robert Sims
Elizabeth Gordon
Mon Feb 12 23:43:42 2001


This is a really fine old Sims family of a different line from mine I reasonably speculate. They were in the right part of AL to be candidates but I cannot connect them in my records.

Elizabeth Sims Gordon bought land in the mid 1830's in Greene, Pickens and Tuscaloosa counties as trustee for her children. Their father was Posey Gordon her husband of course but the inheritance was from James Lewis (Louis) Sims of SC, Elizabeth's father whose will was in records in AL and maybe actually was probated in Greene Co or Tuscaloosa.

For Revolutionary War researchers who have Sims relatives, there is some work to do on this family. Posey had relatives who fought in the Revolutionary War, one of which died in Sumter or Greene Co. just before the Civil War. There is a nice summary of the Gordon family in Pauline Gandrud's books on AL genealogy.

The names are spelled three ways, even in the same land record on the same page by the same clerk Gordan is spelled Gorden and Gordan. Check with me for more detail on finding specific records. One of the best is a war pension hearing for one of the Gordon boys and they tell about the battles of Ft. Sumter and forward and men from AL who fought with them. Quite detailed and elouqent.

Thanks for the connection to MS because I had not followed them into MS records and now I must segregate them from the other Sims names in that State.

There was acutally a record of a James M. Sims who entered service as a private and came out as a Sergeant in MS that I must now try to retrieve. This man keeps popping up and then disappearing, and I leave a trail and come back.

Incidentally, this James M Sims married Letty Dearman in 1848 and they had at least one daughter named Sarah. His neighbors were Waldrop, McDonald and Hitt. One of his in-laws moved to Rankin Co MS.