Robert Sims

Birth Date

1821

Death Date

1879

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Rachael Sims. Married to George Ann Parker Sims in Nicholas County on December 19, 1861. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Household owned three enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 507, p. 10 of microfilm.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 427B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 317.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 138A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, City/District, Precinct 4, p. 247B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252411, p. 602.
Find A Grave, "Robert Sims (1821-1879)," Memorial #30871113, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30871113 (accessed March 19, 2020).
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Federal Mortality Census Schedules, 1850-1880, and Related Indexes, 1850-1880; Archive Collection: T655; Archive Roll Number: 17; Census Year: 1879; Census Place: Kentucky; Page: 1359.

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