Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


William H. JONES

1.  William must have married in Kentucky...

2.  He died before Thomas Sr. did and left a daughter, Nancy Ann.  There was another daughter, Mary Ann born about 1812 that may have died before her father did.  Page 479 Notes & Bio Sketches.


Mary Ann JONES

1.  This could be the same person as Nancy Ann Jones, born abt 1812.


Hall SIMS

1.  1850 N.C. Census Dist 19 shows Hall born in North Carolina.

2.  He was a farmer.

3.  He served at Lt. in Black Hawk War.

4.   The following is from the files of the late Berchie Frazier, Paris, Edgar County, Illinois:

Hall Sims was born in South Carolina, April 25, 1795.  He emigrated to Kentucky and married Miss Annie Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones, in 1813.  In 1815 he came to Clark county, Illinoios.

The scourge of milk sickness drove him to seek a more elevated region of country so with his father in law he came to what is Sims township in Edgar Co. and settled there.  At that time he had a wife and four children, a rifle, two dogs and scanty household furniture.  He came on foot, having a pack hourse to carry his effects.  They arrived March 10, 1821.

Thomas Jones settled in what is now Paris Township and is concidered to be the first settler there.  After his death which occured at an early day, all his family except Hall Sims and his wife Anna Sims moved to Texas.  Hall Sims and his family lived with Thomas Wilson until he could cut logs, and with the help of neighbors raise and cover a cabin.  The cabin was made of unheun logs notched at the ends so they would fit closely together.  The floor was earth.  There was a door in one side and window in the other.  A fire place in one end.  It did not get a peenchion floor until Autumn.  Hall Simms was a public spirited citizen and promenant man in Edgar Co.  He helped organize the county in 1823 when it seperated from Clark county.  In 1826 he became one of the county board of Commissioners.  He served on the board until 1834 and through his efforts it was decided to sell the Old Court House on the South side of the square and build a new one of brick in the center of the square.

In 1832 he was elected to the State Legislature where he served until 1846.  In 1856 he was appointed on a committee to divide Edgar County into townships and give each a name, but he was ill at the time and did not act.  However, the name Marion Township was changed to Sims Township in honor of him.

Hall Sims became the owner of 231 acres of fine land.  He was a Democrat in politics and became a member of the Christian Church in 1843.  His first wife Annie Jones died in 1846 and he married Jane Kimbrough.  She died in 1855.  He spent his last days with a son in Elbridge Township.  He died March 1, 1887.  He left seven children.   William T. Sims, Frank Sims, Jane Sims Parrish, Minerva Sims Morton, Mary Sims Link, James Simms & George Sims.


Anna "Annie" JONES

1.  There is some question as to Annie's birth place...another source shows Hardin County, North Carolina yet another shows Tennessee.  

2.  Notes & Biographical Sketches.. Refs. NCT XRLS: NCGS: S&B Clark County Genea, Soc. 309 Maple, PO Box 153, Marshall, Illinois. 62441.  1850 Census/Sims/Nevins/Rhoads Cemetery Cont 42.

3.  Reported that she was 54 years and 6 days old and buried in Roll Cemetery, Elbridge Twp, lEdgar, Illinois in Section 28 T13N R11W on land still owned by Roll and Lamb descendantgs living NE of Nivens, Illinois.


Hall SIMS

1.  1850 N.C. Census Dist 19 shows Hall born in North Carolina.

2.  He was a farmer.

3.  He served at Lt. in Black Hawk War.

4.   The following is from the files of the late Berchie Frazier, Paris, Edgar County, Illinois:

Hall Sims was born in South Carolina, April 25, 1795.  He emigrated to Kentucky and married Miss Annie Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones, in 1813.  In 1815 he came to Clark county, Illinoios.

The scourge of milk sickness drove him to seek a more elevated region of country so with his father in law he came to what is Sims township in Edgar Co. and settled there.  At that time he had a wife and four children, a rifle, two dogs and scanty household furniture.  He came on foot, having a pack hourse to carry his effects.  They arrived March 10, 1821.

Thomas Jones settled in what is now Paris Township and is concidered to be the first settler there.  After his death which occured at an early day, all his family except Hall Sims and his wife Anna Sims moved to Texas.  Hall Sims and his family lived with Thomas Wilson until he could cut logs, and with the help of neighbors raise and cover a cabin.  The cabin was made of unheun logs notched at the ends so they would fit closely together.  The floor was earth.  There was a door in one side and window in the other.  A fire place in one end.  It did not get a peenchion floor until Autumn.  Hall Simms was a public spirited citizen and promenant man in Edgar Co.  He helped organize the county in 1823 when it seperated from Clark county.  In 1826 he became one of the county board of Commissioners.  He served on the board until 1834 and through his efforts it was decided to sell the Old Court House on the South side of the square and build a new one of brick in the center of the square.

In 1832 he was elected to the State Legislature where he served until 1846.  In 1856 he was appointed on a committee to divide Edgar County into townships and give each a name, but he was ill at the time and did not act.  However, the name Marion Township was changed to Sims Township in honor of him.

Hall Sims became the owner of 231 acres of fine land.  He was a Democrat in politics and became a member of the Christian Church in 1843.  His first wife Annie Jones died in 1846 and he married Jane Kimbrough.  She died in 1855.  He spent his last days with a son in Elbridge Township.  He died March 1, 1887.  He left seven children.   William T. Sims, Frank Sims, Jane Sims Parrish, Minerva Sims Morton, Mary Sims Link, James Simms & George Sims.


Jane Morrison KIMBROUGH

1.  Someone reported that there were at least three children by Hall & Jane, all born in Edgar County,  Illinois (This writer cannot find them named or listed anywhere)

2.  It was said that she was 73 years, 7 Month, & 29 Days old...Edgar County, Illinois, records.


Fred SIMS

1.  Fred moved to Mobile, Alabama.


Ed SIMS

1.  Ed moved to Mobile, Alabama.


William SIMS

1.  Edgar County MGS ED9S, Clark County Gen. Soc., Box 153, Marshall, Illinois 62441.


Samuel BRIMBERRY

1.  Samuel was Capt. in Col. Blackburn's Reg. During the Black Hawk Indian War, having commanded a company of Edgar County, Illinois volunteers...

2.  He spent most of his adult life in Illinois before he and his family migrated to Nacogdoches County
Texas in 1833 & settled near Cove Springs Campground East of Melrose.  

3.  He donated guns and proisions to the Republic of Texas in 1836.  

4.  Sources:  Volume 1 - Nacogdoches County Families (F116)(F117)(F118) Nacdgoches Genealogical Society.  Robertson's Colony 30 Jan 1836 #70 P-66-Ill.  Notes and Biographical Sketches.
1850 Census Nacogdoches County, Texas.

5.   He is buried in a small family plot near his original homestead in a small grove of Chinaberry trees and is
situated where the morning sun will warm his bones and the afternoon shade will cool them.  

6.  The cemetery is located on a gentle knoll on the property of Juanita & Adolphous Moore, a half mile East of the Mast Cemetery.

7.  Both cemeteries are situated on the Attoyac Road which turns off Highway 21 about three quarters of a mile Southeast of Melrose.


Marriage Notes for Samuel Brimberry and Mary Elizabeth JONES-3498

1.  Alternate date and place of marriage:   27 Jun 1816 in Edwards County, Illinois


Joseph Patterson JONES

1.  One record shows marriage of 9 Apr 1819 after getting license on 6 Apr 1819 in Crawford County, Illinois.  

2.  Joseph & Sally settled in Jones Prairie about 1833.

3.  In 1834 he was given a land grant of 11,000 acres at Jones Prairie by the Mexican Government...some say 4,428.4 acres between Little River & Cow Creek.

4.  He served as a 1st Sgt in Company A of Capt. Thomas Barron's Texas Rangers.  After the defeat of Santa Anna's Army in 1836, he worked as a surveyor.

5.  He was killed by Kickapoo Indians in a massacre about a mile West of the present town of Dawson, Texas  6 October 1838 while serving as a member of a surveying party and is buried in a common grave at Battle Creek off Highway 31 South of Dawson in Navarro County.

6.  Sources:  From misc. census records,
                       Records from gravesites at the Little River Baptist Church Cemetery , Vol 1-B,
                       "Old Northwest Texas", p. 393.
                       Alan Jones records.
                       Louise Nelson Records.


Sarah "Sally" BRIMBERRY

1.  Sally is buried @ Little River Baptist Chruch Cemetery, Jones Prairie, Milam, Texas.


Marriage Notes for Joseph Patterson Jones and Sarah "Sally" BRIMBERRY-3500

1.  Alternate date of marriage:  9 Apr 1819


Morgan Samuel MORGAN

1.  Morgan served in Hood's Brigade in Civil War.

2.  In the 1840 census, he was in Louisiana with his family and 20 slaves.

3.  No known record of his death date or where he is buried.


Elizabeth "Betsy" JONES

1.  Betsy lived in the Republic of Texas as she obtained a land grant in 1839.

2.  Betsy was a widow in 1850 census, Panola County, Texas.  

3.  Her mother Elizabeth Jones was living with her in 1850.

4.  She moved to Grayson County, Texas, after leaving Panola County, Texas.

5.  Notes & Biographical Sketches:  REFS. NCTxRLS; MCMGS SB.  1850 Federal Census of Panola County, Texas.  

6.  Family Group Sheet ...Martha Madaline Williams


Morgan Samuel MORGAN

1.  Morgan served in Hood's Brigade in Civil War.

2.  In the 1840 census, he was in Louisiana with his family and 20 slaves.

3.  No known record of his death date or where he is buried.


Achilles MORGAN

1.  Some info from page 42, Vol. 3 Number 2, Jan. 19 Descendants of Colonel Morgan Morgan.

2.  Around 1821 Achilles left his home in what is now West Virginia & moved to what became Vermillion County, Illinois.

3.  Served on Vermillion County's First Board of County Commissioners.

4.  Achilles was a Capt. in the Vermillion County Rangers.


Mack HISLIP

1.  Source:    SS Death Record #431-40-6302 AR
                  Probate marriage records


Sallie S. HAND

1.  Sallie & Mark must have divorced and remarried:  Baxter Bulletin-issue May 8, 1936, “Married:  Mark Hoslip, of Marianna, Lee County, to Miss Sallie Hand of Hand, on Apri 28”