THE DAILY BULLETIN, Martinsville, Va., Tue., May 26, 1936, p. 1, col. 2 [edited].
Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Hairston Sims, aged 73, who died Monday in John Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, following an illness of several weeks, will be held Friday at her home, Berry Hill plantation, Pittsylvania County. The body was cremated in Baltimore Tuesday, prior to removal to the Pittsylvania home for burial. Mrs. Sims, the daughter of the late Allcie and Samuel Harden Hairston, was born in 1863 at the ancestral home at Chatmoss, near Axton, now occupied by her daughter, Mrs. Howard C. Norton. She was educated at the Thomasville School, N.C., and at Charlottesville.
She was married to Alfred Varley Sims, civil engineer, in 1891, and later lived in California, Iowa City, Cuba and New York, returning each year to her Berry Hill plantation, the oldest of several Hairston homes that date back to colonial days.
She was a member of the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
She is survived by her husband, four children: Alfred William Sims, Mrs. Elsie Sims Rickards, Mrs. Ruth Sims Norton, and Mrs. Varley Sims Davidson; and one sister, Mrs. J. D. Glenn.
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Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Hairston Sims, aged 73, who died Monday in John Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, following an illness of several weeks, will be held Friday at her home, Berry Hill plantation, Pittsylvania County. The body was cremated in Baltimore Tuesday, prior to removal to the Pittsylvania home for burial. Mrs. Sims, the daughter of the late Allcie and Samuel Harden Hairston, was born in 1863 at the ancestral home at Chatmoss, near Axton, now occupied by her daughter, Mrs. Howard C. Norton. She was educated at the Thomasville School, N.C., and at Charlottesville.
She was married to Alfred Varley Sims, civil engineer, in 1891, and later lived in California, Iowa City, Cuba and New York, returning each year to her Berry Hill plantation, the oldest of several Hairston homes that date back to colonial days.
She was a member of the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
She is survived by her husband, four children: Alfred William Sims, Mrs. Elsie Sims Rickards, Mrs. Ruth Sims Norton, and Mrs. Varley Sims Davidson; and one sister, Mrs. J. D. Glenn.
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THE DAILY BULLETIN, Martinsville, Va., Tue., May 26, 1936, p. 1, col. 2 [edited].
Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Hairston Sims, aged 73, who died Monday in John Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, following an illness of several weeks, will be held Friday at her home, Berry Hill plantation, Pittsylvania County. The body was cremated in Baltimore Tuesday, prior to removal to the Pittsylvania home for burial. Mrs. Sims, the daughter of the late Allcie and Samuel Harden Hairston, was born in 1863 at the ancestral home at Chatmoss, near Axton, now occupied by her daughter, Mrs. Howard C. Norton. She was educated at the Thomasville School, N.C., and at Charlottesville.
She was married to Alfred Varley Sims, civil engineer, in 1891, and later lived in California, Iowa City, Cuba and New York, returning each year to her Berry Hill plantation, the oldest of several Hairston homes that date back to colonial days.
She was a member of the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
She is survived by her husband, four children: Alfred William Sims, Mrs. Elsie Sims Rickards, Mrs. Ruth Sims Norton, and Mrs. Varley Sims Davidson; and one sister, Mrs. J. D. Glenn.
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Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Hairston Sims, aged 73, who died Monday in John Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, following an illness of several weeks, will be held Friday at her home, Berry Hill plantation, Pittsylvania County. The body was cremated in Baltimore Tuesday, prior to removal to the Pittsylvania home for burial. Mrs. Sims, the daughter of the late Allcie and Samuel Harden Hairston, was born in 1863 at the ancestral home at Chatmoss, near Axton, now occupied by her daughter, Mrs. Howard C. Norton. She was educated at the Thomasville School, N.C., and at Charlottesville.
She was married to Alfred Varley Sims, civil engineer, in 1891, and later lived in California, Iowa City, Cuba and New York, returning each year to her Berry Hill plantation, the oldest of several Hairston homes that date back to colonial days.
She was a member of the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
She is survived by her husband, four children: Alfred William Sims, Mrs. Elsie Sims Rickards, Mrs. Ruth Sims Norton, and Mrs. Varley Sims Davidson; and one sister, Mrs. J. D. Glenn.
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