Clay County Cemetery Records,
Volume II

Source: Ancestry.com

Sims Graveyard

Richard Sims Family Burial Ground, Seven Miles Northwest of Liberty

Copied Ly Robert Steels Withers and Ethel Massey Withers.

The grave of Richard Sims marked with a
United States Government marker, 3rd Va. Militia, Rev. War.
Erected by Alexander Doniphan Chapter D. A. R. October, 1912


Name: Rev. James M. Inskeep
Death Date: 11 Nov 1849
Age: 49 years
Comment: Sacred to the memory of the Rev. James M. Inskeep

Name: Frances A. Peters
Death Date: 20 Jan 1848
Age: 57 years, four months and 25 days
Comment: consort of John R. Peters;
"Thee are gone to the grave
but I were wrong to deplore thee;
Since God was thy ransom,
thy guardian and guide,
He gave thee and took thee;
Where death hath no sting;
Since the Saviour has died"

Name: John R. Peters
Birth Date: 15 Feb 1792
Death Date: 22 Jul 1860

Name: Katherine Wert Ringo
Birth Date: 17 Feb 1843
Death Date: 09 Mar 1845
Comment: daughter of Andrew H., and Margaret Ringo;
"Happy infant early blessed Rest in peaceful slumber rest"

Name: Margaret Sims Ringo
Birth Date: 02 Feb 1836
Death Date: 22 Mar 1844
Comment: daughter of Andrew H., and Margaret S. Ringo;
"Lovely daughter, early blest, Rest in peaceful slumber rest"

Name: Bennetta Lemox Rouse
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1802
Death Date: 08 Sep 1870
Comment: daughter of E. and Sarah M. F. Rouse

Name: Bennetta Lemox Rouse
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1852
Death Date: 18 Sep 1870
Comment: daughter of E. and Sarah M. F. Rouse

Name: Eliza Tobitha Rouse
Comment: daughter of E. and S. Rouse

Name: Bennetta Lemox Rouse
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1852
Death Date: 18 Sep 1870
Comment: daughter of E. and Sarah M. F. Rouse

Name: Eliza Tobitha Rouse
Death Date: 31 Jul 1865
Age: 11 months
Comment: our Angel babe, daughter of E. and S. Rouse

Name: Eliza T. Rouse
Birth Date: 03 Sep 1864
Death Date: 30 Jul 1866
Comment: infant daughter of E. and S. M. F. Rouse

Name: Sarah M. F. Rouse
Birth Date: 06 Sep 1821
Death Date: 09 May 1884
Comment: wife of E. Rouse

Name: Ezekiel Rouse
Birth Date: 06 Oct 1871
Death Date: 10 Jul 1888

Name: Ora ??a ??ighman
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1868
Death Date: 15 Oct 1870

Name: Louisa Sims
Death Date: 20 May 1848
Age: 2 years
Comment: daughter of J. H. and M. A. Sims;
"Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven"

Name: Jincey Sims
Death Date: 24 Oct 1831
Age: 26
Comment: sacred to the memory who departed this life

Name: J. S. Sims
Death Date: 30 Jul 1875
Age: 69 years, 7 months, and 8 days

Name: Margaret B. Sims
Death Date: 22 Jan 1873
Age: 80 years, 1 month, and 23 days
Comment: "Meet me in heaven"

Name: Maddie Turner
Birth Date: 17 Jan 1862
Death Date: 18 May 1884
Comment: wife of H. B. Turner; died in Houston, Texas;
"She has gone before carrying bright hopes to a brighter shore"

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