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Name: GEORGE SIMS
Death Date: JUN/2/1929 Interment Date: JUN/5/1929 Birth Date: JUN/4/1845
Age at Death: 83y11m28d Cause of Death: CHRONIC MYOCARDITIS,ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, HYPERTENSION
Location at Death:  SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
Physical Location at Death: HOME 509 MONROE
Sex: M Nativity: AMERICAN Ethnicity: CAUCASIAN
Occupation:CABINET MAKER
Military Branch:US Army Military Rank:private War Service:Co C, WI 37th inf rgt
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Child of: George Sims & Sarah Prince
Spouse of: Laura Alice Edwards
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Father of: Earl Phillip Sims, Edward Sims, George Sims Jr., William Sims, Thomas Sims, Mrs. Anne Foster, Mrs. W.O. Jennings, Mrs. L. H. Fuqua, Mrs. J.E. Henry
Other Known Relatives: siblings: Emily Sims 1840-1928,Louise Sarah Sims 1841, Mary Sims 1843, Lavinia Prince Sims 1847-1850, Catherine Sims 1848-1848,William Henry Sims 1851-1874, Stephen Sims 1853, Edward Sims 1856-1890, Thomas Sims 1857-1923, Sarah Lavinia Sims Evans 1860-1933, Richard Orville Sims 1865-1865
Brief Biography: George Sims was born in Dodgeville, Wisconsin June 4, 1845 to George Sims and Sarah Prince of England. Obituary St. Joseph News-Press Jun 3, 1929 G.A.R. VETERAN DEAD. George Sims, Eighty-three, Had Lived Here More Than Forty Years George Sims, a member of the G.A.R. died yesterday morning at his home 509 Monroe street. He was eighty-three years old and has been a resident of St. Joseph More than forty years. He is survived by his wife, four sons, Edward of Kansas City, George Jr. Of Arma, Kan., William of Chicago and Thomas Of St. Joseph: four daughters, Mrs Anne Foster, Philadelphia, Mrs W. O. Jennings , Moberly, Mo., Mrs L. H. Fuqua, Clinton, Iowa and Mrs J. E. Henry, St. Joseph, and a sister, Mrs Sadie Evans, Dodgeville, Wis. The body is at the Heaton-BeGole and Bowman Funeral Home pending arrangements.
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Vault Type: Burial Number: 10535  
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Other Relatives in Plot: Laura Alice Edwards Sims(wife),Anne Sims Foster (daughter), Charles E. Foster (son-in-law), Charles Foster Jr.(grandson),Jane B. Foster
Lot Owner: C E FOSTER
Lot Location: S1/2 2
Block Location: 11
Section/Range Location: J
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Cost of Interment: 10.00 Date Paid: 06/30/29
 
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