SIMS Beverly Hutson b. 24 Sep 1824 SC d. 19 May 1884 Blount Co, AL: Jamile's Genealogy Site

1824 - 1884 (59 years)

Name	SIMS Beverly Hutson
Born	24 Sep 1824	SC
Gender	Male
Died	19 May 1884	Blount Co, AL [1]
Buried	UNKNOWN	Remlap Cem, Remlap, Blount, AL [2]
Person ID	I1320	Combo
Last Modified	22 Aug 2009

Father	SIMS James, b. Virginia , d. Abt 1843
Mother	NANCY, b. SC , d. UNKNOWN
Family ID	F0550	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	GRIFFIN L. F., d. UNKNOWN
Married	7 May 1850	Cross Plains/Piedmont, Benton/Calhoun County, AL
Family ID	F0549	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 2 ABLE Nancy J., b. 4 May 1824, Tennessee , d. 1 Oct 1893, Blount Co, AL (Age 69 years)

Married 16 Apr 1854 Calhoun, AL (near Anniston)

Children

	1. SIMS Thomas Benton, b. 15 Apr 1855, Cross Plains, Benton Co, AL , d. 30 Jan 1921, Blount Co, AL (Age 65 years)
	2. SIMS John Bailus, b. 21 Apr 1858, Cross Plains, Benton County, Al , d. 11 Aug 1916, Blount Co, AL (Age 58 years)
	3. SIMS Sarelda Ann, b. 26 Mar 1860, Cross Plains, Benton County, AL , d. 12 Jan 1933, Blount County, Al (Age 72 years)
	4. SIMS Henry Claud, b. 31 Mar 1862, Cross Plains, Benton Co, AL , d. 9 Aug 1899, Murphy Valley, Blount, AL (Age 37 years)
	5. SIMS Robert H., b. 18 Dec 1865, Blount Co, AL , d. 11 Jul 1915 (Age 49 years)

Family ID F0541 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents
1854 marriage license for B. H. Sims and Nancy Able

Headstones
B. H. Sims

Notes

Beachmouse@gulftel.com shows middle name is Huttson, 7/2003.

Name changed 3/2005 after correspondence with Kenneth O. Sims of Alabama:
Beverly Hutson Sims was born in South Carolina on September 24, in about 1824. His tombstone records 1820 "service". 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 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 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 1870 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 next to Remlap United Methodist Church.

June 2005 Kenneth Sims sent Jamile Sims Johnson the following copies of documents:
1. US Land Patent Certificate 8127 dated October 1, 1845 granted to Hutson Sims for fractions 10 and 15 of Section 32, Township 12 South, Range 10 East Benton County, AL. Fractions 10 and 15 are adjacent to Fractions 11 and 14 previously granted by Certificate 7655 dated June 1843 to Henry Sims, brother of B. H. Sims. Children of Thomas Benton Sims by his second wife are the grand children of both B. H. Sims and his brother Henry G. Sims.
2. Deed dated Sept. 27, 1870 and recorded in Book 10, page 113, Blount County, AL real estate records: M. M. Baker and wife Martha A. Baker to Beverly H. Sims. Land including the West one half of the North East Quarter and the East one half of the North East Quarter of Section 26, Township 14, Range 1 West, Blount County, AL. (Both halves means B. H. owned the entire North East Quarter of Section 26 (160 acres). The deed also includes forty acres to the north in the SE corner of Section 23 and an additional unidentifiable forty acres.
3. Deed dated Feb 28, 1888 Blount County Real Estate Records. Nancy Sims, John B. Sims, Henry C. Sims, Sarelda Little, and Robert H. Sims (wife and children of B. H. Sims) to Thomas B. Sims (son of B. H. Sims). The South West quarter of the North East Quarter of Section 26, Township 14, Range 1 West, Blount County, AL (note that this is a portion of the land previously deeded to Beverly H. Sims by M. M. Baker and wife on September 27, 1870). Also on this page note the statement of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, dated May 21, 1890. This indicates that Benjamin Harrison Sims (July 21, 1889) was named for the U.S. president in office when he was born, and not for his grandfather B. H. Sims. Besides, no one would have known who Benjamin Harrison was in 1826 when Beverly Hutson Sims was born.
4. This is a copy of an original letter in possession of Kenneth O. Sims written to his grandfather John Bailus Sims when he tried to sell land still in his father's name (Beverly H.) in 1907. Note that the land mentioned is the north half of the 80 acres of Section 26 which was in the 1870 deed to Beverly H. Sims.
5. Copies of a number of papers found in a small box in the possession of a grandaughter of Esther Sims Stephenson. The box evidently belonged to Beverly H. Sims. Inside were several Hutson Sims promises to pay, several B. H. Sims promises to pay, receipts to Hudson Sims, receipts to B. H. Sims, and a post office registry receipts to Nancy Sims (Beverly Hutson Sims' wife).

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June 7, 2005 e-mail
Beverly Hutson Sims Documentation
by Kenneth Sims

I had thought that B.H. Sims was Benjamin Hutson Sims until 2005 when documentation for Beverly H. Sims was discovered. Even though for many years I had possessed a letter from a lawyer in Birmingham written to my grandfather John B. Sims in 1907 inquiring about the land of Beverly H. Sims and naming widow Mrs. Nancy Sims, I had for thirty years assumed that Beverly was a typo, or a mistake, in that letter.

Federal land records show that between 1845 and 1849, adjoining land in Benton/Calhoun Co. was purchased by "Hutson," George L., Henry, and Garrison SIMS.

1850 Census
Hutson Sims and first wife L. F. (Griffin), Hudson's widowed mother Nancy, his brother Henry Sims AL/Benton County/28th District
NOTE: Benton County became Calhoun County in 1858.
Hutson's brother Garrison and family were in GA/Cheroekee County/Division 15

1860 Census
D. H. and Nancy with 3 children, plus his mother Nancy Sims (77 yrs) Al/Calhoun/Township 13, Range 20

1870 Census
B. H. Sims with 2nd wife Nancy and 5 children, including Henry Claud AL/Jefferson County/Township 15, Range 1 (Village Springs)

1880 Blount Co., AL
Enum. Dst. 14, page 3 (Township 14)
[no family or dwelling numbers listed on page]

Thomas B. SIMMS 25 AL SC TN farmer
Nancy H. 26 AL AL AL wife (suffers from apoplexy)
Barnett W. 03 AL AL AL son
Florida D. 01 AL AL AL da.

next family:
Bev. H. SIMMS 56 SC VA SC farmer
Nancy 54 TN SC SC wife keeping house
John B. 22 AL SC TN son
Ann C. 19 AL SC TN da.
Henry C. 17 AL SC TN son
Robt. H. 15 AL SC TN son

next family:
Reubin LITTLE 59 GA GA GA farmer
Lucinda P. 50 AL KY GA wife keeping house
(and children, including Cinthy A., who would later marry John B. SIMS above)

Reubin LITTLE's house still stands in Blount Co., about half way between Remlap and Village Springs directly across Highway 75 from the land deeded to "Beverly H. SIMS" in the 1870 Blount Co., AL deed (photocopy on file). This Beverly H. Sims land is where my father (William H.) always pointed to as where he was born as we passed by going to Remlap. I thought that it was Little land until 2005 when I found the 1870 Beverly H. Sims deed.

Beverly Hutson's brother Henry G. appears in 1880 Calhoun Co., apparently still living on the land he purchased there in 1845 in Section 32, Township 12S, Range 10E, adjacent to parcels purchased by his presumed brothers Garrison (1847), George L. (1849), and "Hutson" (1845):

1880 Calhoun Co., AL
Enum. Dst. 11, page 10 (Beat #9)
fam. #98
Henry G. SIMS 67 SC VA SC farmer
Elizabeth 51 TN Ireland Ireland wife
Marion 30 AL SC TN son
Carline 26 AL SC TN da.
John 22 AL SC TN son
Nancy 21 AL SC TN da.
Frank 18 AL SC TN son
Elizza 14 AL SC TN da.
Anna 11 AL SC TN da.

Note that Henry's birthplace and those of his parents match exactly what Bev. H. said in 1880 Blount Co.! Henry's youngest daughter, Elizabeth Anna (born 23 Jan 1868) would later marry her first cousin Thomas Benton SIMS, son of Beverly Hutson, as Thomas's second wife.]

In 2005, descendants of B.H. Sims through Esther Sims Stephenson, daughter of Thomas Benton Sims by second marriage, and granddaughter of B.H.Sims, found in their possession the original copy of an 1848 promise to sell by Garrison Sims to Bevrly (sic) H. Sims land in Benton County, AL. This original document may not have been recorded. They also found a small wooden box containing personal papers of B.H. Sims. In the box were receipts to and promises to pay by B.H. Sims, Hudson Sims, and Hutson Sims. Unfortunately, B.H, evidently being business savvy, had torn his signature from each of them so we don't know how he signed the ones showing Hutson.

Also on Jan 5, 1851, as recorded in the papers of the Circuit Court of Benton County, Hudson Sims bought George L. Sims' land (Faction #9 of Sec. 32, T12,R10) evidently for taxes. Garrison's land (which he had promised to sell to Bevrly (sic) H. in the unrecorded document) was also sold for taxes to a lawyer R.G. EARL for $25 on 5 March 1849.

My father (William H.) told me before I started Sims research that his grandfather's name was what I thought was Hutchinson. He may have mispronounced Hutson or Huttson (or I may have just misunderstood him). My maternal grandmother, who evidently had known the family, heard him tell me this and said that he was called Uncle Hutt.

The estate settlement of James Sims (1843) of Benton (Calhoun) County, (microfilm copy at Alabama Archives) shows that property was inventoried by Hudson Sims, Henry Sims and what appears to be William Sims. Also, in a later estate related document, Nancy is listed as widow of James.

I speculate that the Sims came to Benton County from Cherokee County, Ga. I assume this because a George L. Sims married in Cherokee County, Ga. to Elizabeth McGinnis Feb 18, 1849. George L. of Benton seems to have left Benton County before 1850 but has not been found in 1850 or 1860. He may be the one whose family turns up in Caldwell and Milam County, TX in 1860 and 1870 although the dates don't match. Also Garrison Sims lived in Cherokee County, Ga. in 1850 and 1860 and his widow lived there in 1870 and 1880. Although purely speculation, it looks as if George L. and Garrison "went back home" and married. As noted above, their land in Benton County, Al. sold in 1849 and 1851 for back taxes indicating they had left it. Ester Sims Stephenson, granddaughter of both B.H. and his brother Henry G. is said to have said that the Sims came from Georgia "because of a killing".

Research in Cherokee county, Ga. might prove fruitful.