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Notes for Alfred Cuthbert or Cub Sims


In Alfred Cuthbert "A.C." Sims' memoirs of the Civil War, he tells that he joined up with General Hood's Texas Regiment in Georgia after the death of his twin brother, Hub in Arkansas. His elder brother, Tom, was an officer in the Confederate Army. A.C. suffered much illness during the period he was in Georgia. Upon the end of the fighting, he returned home to East Texas where he was a teacher and later a Baptist Minister. He married Rachell Segrest. About 3 months after the birth of Appless Arabella, Rachell died, leaving A.C. with 5 children under the age of 10. In August 1884 he wrote a proposal of marriage to a maiden woman of 31 years. They married in September. His letter of proposal was very eloquent and follows below:

Beech Grove Jasper County Texas
August 8th, 1884


Miss Fannie Allen,
I trust that you will forgive my presumption in thus addressing you without first having obtained your permission to do so. Though I am a stranger to you yet your bright smiles haunts me still so that you no longer seem as a stranger to me and I cannot forbear the temptation longer that I have to make known to you some of my thoughts, affections and wishes and fearing lest I should not have such an opportunity as I would desire to express my sentiments, were I to visit you, I have desire to express my sentiments, were I to visit you, I have concluded to adopt this medium of expression. Affection is sometimes of slow growth and again it srpings up in a moment and I hope you will pardon me for confessing the truth by declaring to you my love for you at first sight and you will not, I trust think it so strange of it when you shall learn of the favorable reports which I have received of you which taken in connection with your personal beauty I think sifficient cause to engage the affections of even the most fastidious.
I of course cannot hope to have made so favorable an impression on your mind on so short an acquantance but I do not know what is in you heart or what might be hereafter and I therefore desire to give expression to my feelings and learn my fate before it is too late. I wish that you may therefore after serious consideration of this letter to inform me whether or not I shall cherish this feeling or shall I smother it at once. I fully believe that when two like hearts meet that it is no difficult task for them to determine that fact and I cannot help entertaining a hope that your s are one that I am in search of and in further testimony there of I will relate to you a strange circumstance. Before arriving at your house last Sunday, I asked a sign of the Lord that if either of the three ladies that were there should be the one that she might show it by asking me if I had not been to dinner. I hope that the answer is from the Lord and that he may awaken in your bosom the same feeling that I know experience for you. If you should see fit to answer this letter direct ot me at Town Bluff, Texas, if you should wish to send it by hand you need not be afraid to deposit it with you Cousin Dug as she is aware that I ahve written this to you but no one else, Respectfully

A. C. Sims
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Last Will and Testiment of Alfred Cuthbert Sims

State of Texas Jasper Texas, Jan. 21, 1903
Jasper County

To all whom it may concern: Know by these presence that it is my will that my beloved wife F. A. Sims after my decease shall retain full possession of all that is called mine as a means of support until her death provided, however, she remain single. In the event that she should marry again or die, all properties in anywise belonging to me be equally divided between my ten children. Written with mine own hand this 21st day of January A.D. 1903.

A. C. Sims
International Genealogical Index (IGI).
Batch: f877593 Ser Sheet: 0006
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