The Duke-Symes Family

Download or read book The Duke-Symes Family written by Jane Sims Davison Morris and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Duke married Hannah Grendon prior to 1672 in Charles City County, Colony of Virginia. She was the widow of William Bird. Their descendant Fanny Duke, daughter of Burwell and Frances Duke, Sr., married Briggs Sims in Warren County, North Carolina in 1796. Another ot their daughters, Holly Duke, married Benjamin L. Sims, brother of Briggs Sims, on 9 March 1805 also in Warren County. Briggs Sims died in Bedford County, Tennessee in 1832. "Sometime in 1832 Fanny (Duke) Sims removed with her family to from Bedford County to Green County, Missouri ..."--Page 214. Benjamin L. Sims died 9 March 1835. Holly Sims married Rev. Harris G. Joplin on 23 January 1834 in Green County, Missouri. She died in about 1842. Descendants lived and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and elsewhere