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Show FATHER OF 1IY SIMS JS DEAD The Indianapolis Star contains the following sketch of tho life of J. L. Sims, father of Harrv Sims of Ogdcn. Og-dcn. who died at Edlnburg, Ind." "Joshua Larkin Sims was born April 10, 1831. In the Haw Patch Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, In-diana, and after an Illness of" more than two years of Intense suffering died Jan. 27, 1912. "In tho death of Joshua Sims is recorded re-corded the passing away of one of tho pioneers of southern Indiana, who spent all his life, with tho exception of the time he was in tho civil war, near tho home of his birth. "He,, came to Edinburg with his parents in 1844, received such school- , Ingas was to be had In tho3o dajs and' finished his education at Asbury (now DePauw) .University at Qreen-castle Qreen-castle After returning from college ' he entered the service of what was then the Jeffersonille & Indianapolis railroad and continued In that service ser-vice until his enlistment in the civil war He enlisted In the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry, Company H, under I Capt. R. M. Kelly, July S. 16C1, was ' pointed to the noncommissioned office of first sergeant, which ho held until mustered out of service, July 1SGI. Ho again resumed railroading upon his return from army service severing his connection with the J. M. & I. on his appointment ae postmaster of Ed-inburg Ed-inburg "Joshua Sims was one of Indiana's well road men, was an excellent Greek and Latin scholar, but bo unassuming that only his Immedlato fainiiv and closest frionds knew anything of his I ability as a scholar Years ago Col. j Scott, then superintendent of the J , M & I. railway, many times referred to him as the walking dictionary at Edinburg. Mr. Scott knew him in. timateiy. Ho was twlco eloctod to the Town Council, was marshal ono torm and also postmaster during the administration ad-ministration of President Arthur and was a lifelong Republican He loved his old Hooslor state, and also loved to bo near tho home of his birth, and for that reason he refused two excellent excel-lent offers for advancement In railroad rail-road postions while he was In railroad rail-road service, ono offer which would havo taken him awav from tho stato "He did valiant service for his country in tho war of the rebollion, and the regiment to which he belonged, be-longed, the Nineteenth Indiana, made a name for itself as a member of the famed Iron Brigade" that will go down in history as long as American history will exist. Thl8 regiment sustained sus-tained the greatest lo3B In battle of any regiment from Indiana. The genealogy gen-ealogy of his family dates back to a preiod long before tho revolutionary revolution-ary war, in whioh ono great-uncle was kilted and another honorably dis-chargod dis-chargod at the close of the war Tho fnmily name has been represontod In tho defense of our country in each succeeding war since, and Ip tho civil war It Is authoritatively otated that tho Sims family had tho largest representation rep-resentation of any other one family In the stato of Indiana. "He always endeavored to teach his children to deal Justly and honestly with every one. and they could proudly proud-ly point to the record of their father as a man with whom every person who had any business association got i a "square deal," and the personal en-teem en-teem with which ho was held by hlo neighbors and friends was a fitting testimonial to that fact. , "In August, 1S90, he became converted con-verted to and united wjth tho Catholic religion and lived In that faith until his death. "July 19, 1S57, ho was married to Eleanor Bradburn of Philadelphia, and to this union were born eight children, chil-dren, six of whom,wlth tho widow and fifteen grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren, great-grandchildren, survive him. The children chil-dren living are Samuel Sims. Nellie Sims, Gertrude Nicholson of this city; Mrs. Marguerite Oingsdorf of Vancouver, Van-couver, Wash . H. Scott Sims of El Paso, Tex , and H. A. Sims of Ogdcn, Utah." |