The Beverly Hutson Sims Family
by Kenneth Sims
Beverly Hutson Sims was born in South Carolina on September 24, in about 1824. His tombstone records 1820. An analysis of census data indicates around 1824. His mother was named Nancy and she was born in South Carolina in about 1783. His father was born in Virginia and research indicates that his father was James whose estate is mentioned in the estate records of Benton County, AL. on March 10, 1843 and April 12, 1843.
His whereabouts are unknown before October 1, 1845 when he purchased eighty acres of land from the U.S. Government Land Office under the name Hutson Sims. He appeared in the 1850 U.S. Census of Benton County, Alabama (Hudson Sims) but research indicates that he moved there with his family in the early 1840’s. The original copy of a promise to sell land in Benton County dated __________1848 from Garrison Sims to Bevery (sic) H. Sims is in possession of descendants of B.H. Sims. This document was found in a box with other papers and receipts belonging to B.H. Sims. He married first to L.F. Griffin on May 7, 1849 at Cross Plains (now the city of Piedmont), Benton (now Calhoun) County, Alabama. She evidently died before April 14,1854 when he married Nancy J. ABEL, the daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (McHenry) ABEL. Nancy J. Abel was born May 5, 1824 in Tennessee and died October, 1, 1893 near Remlap, Blount County, Alabama. Both marriages show his name as B.H. Sims.
Hutson and Nancy Sims moved to Jefferson County, Alabama before 1870 when they appeared there in the 1870 U.S. Census (B.H. Sims). They evidently moved from Calhoun (Benton) County with Nancy’s parents. Deed book Y page 416, Blount County, Alabama contains the recording of a deed from M.M. and Martha A. Baker to Beverly H. Sims dated September 27, 1870 for 240 acres of land. In 1880 they lived on this land in Blount County on what is now HWY 75 just south of Remlap, Blount County and a short distance from the Jefferson-Blount County line. Hutson was known in Blount County as Uncle Hutt. Beverly Hutson Sims died May 19, 1884 near Remlap, Blount County, Al. He and Nancy are buried at the cemetery at the Remlap United Methodist Church.
The children of Beverly Hutson and Nancy J. (Abel) Sims were:
1. Thomas Benton who was born April 15, 1855 at Cross Plains, Benton County, Alabama. He married first to Nancy Hester CORNELIUS (born December 24, 1855) on January 17, 1874 in Blount County, Alabama. They had the following children:
1. Barnett Woodie, born October 4, 1876; married Leila E. _________;died September, 12, 1944.
2. Florida Arline, born August 21, 1878; married Blount County, December 2, 1895 to Felix Sullivan, 2nd to Henry Longhurst. Lived in Arizona.
3. Hampton Huttson, born March 4, 1883; married July 26,1902 to Birdie Lee Mcdill; died May 22, 1950
Nancy Hester Sims died October 14, 1886 and Tom remarried on January 14, 1889 to his first cousin Elizabeth Anna Sims, the daughter of Henry G. Sims of Benton, County. They had the following children:
1. Esther Ivone, born October 4, 1892; married Bryd A. Stephenson.
2. Lois Elizabeth, born April 12, 1896; married _________ Landers.
3. Arlington Lester, born June 29, 1899.
4. Oscar Daniel, born September 25, 1905.
Elizabeth Anna died June 7, 1919. Thomas Benton was killed in an automobile wreck on HWY 75 just north of Pinson, Jefferson County, Alabama on January 30, 1921. Tom, Hester, and Elizabeth are buried at Remlap.
2. John Bailus who was born April 21, 1858 at Cross Plains, Benton County, Alabama. He married Syntha Ann Little, the daughter of Reuben Lafayette and Lucinda (PARSONS) Little on December 31, 1884. Syntha Ann Little was born May 4, 1864 near Remlap, Blount County, Alabama and died March 20. 1937 at Village Springs, Alabama. John Bailus Sims died August 11, 1916. Both are buried at Remlap, Blount County, Alabama. They had the following children:
1. Pink Kogar, born December 18, 1885 near Remlap, Blount County, Alabama; married Grace Massey, died November 23, 1964; buried at Remlap.
2. Elma, born March 8, 1888 near Remlap Blount County, Alabama; married January 7, 1912, in Blount County to William Edward Morris, died 1977; buried at Remlap.
3. Myrtle, born February 22, 1890 near Remlap, Blount County, Alabama; married James Allen Hill; died 1989.
4. Samuel Foster, born September 28, 1892 near Remlap Blount County, Alabama; died October 9, 1956; buried at Remlap.
5. Alfred Edgar, born July 27, 1896 near Remlap, Blount County, Alabama; died December 10, 1925 in an explosion at the Overton Mines #2 at Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama; buried at Remlap.
6. William Howard, born December 23, 1906 at Remlap Blount County, Alabama; married January 20, 1938 to Eula Leola Dorman, the daughter of Van Buren and Nancy Lou Vessie (Hicks) Dorman; died April 22, 1967; Buried at Remlap.
3. Sarelda Ann who was born March 26, 1860, at Cross Plains, Benton County, Alabama; married Ira Green Little, the son of Reuben Lafayette and Lucinda (PARSONS) Little in Blount county, Alabama; died December 1, 1933; buried at Remlap.
4. Henry Claud who was born March 31, 1862, at Cross Plains, Benton County, Alabama. He married December 04, 1884 at Remlap, Blount Co, Alabama to Manilla Sylvania (Silvanie) Cosby, daughter of Spencer and Eunice (Hallmark) Cosby. Manilla Sylvania (Sivvanie) Cosby was born January 02, 1867 and died July 17, 1901. Henry Claud Sims died August 9, 1899. Both are buried at Remlap, Blount County, Alabama. They had the following children:
1. James Coplin, born September 02, 1885 in Remlap, Blount County, Alabama, and died April 11, 1949 in Los Angeles, CA. He married ANNA OR ANNIE. James left Alabama for Denver, CO after his parents died.
2. Benjamin Harrison “Ben”, born July 21, 1889 in Remlap, Blount Co, Alabama; married Zelphia Anstis Bruce (January 26, 1892 - May 14, 1983); died February 14, 1974 in Clanton, Chilton, Alabama; buried at Clanton City Cemetery, Clanton, Chilton, Alabama.
3. Josephine "Josie", born March 01, 1893 in Remlap, Blount County, Alabama; married Arthur Freeman Prince (July 15, 1889 - May 21, 1978} on October 04, 1914; died September 22, 1967 in Safford, Graham, AZ.
5. Robert H. who was born December 18, 1865 and married May 30, 1899 in Blount County, Alabama to Gussei L. Gillaspie.
