SIMS, JOHN, was born Sept. 13, 1799, in Spartanberg county, S. C. His father died and his mother married again and moved to North Carolina, thence to Tennessee, and from there he went to live with his uncle, James Sims, in Logan county, Ky. His uncle moved to Caldwell county, and from there to St. Clair county, Ill., in 1815. John Sims and Lucinda Duff were there married Jan. 13, 1819. They moved, with his father-in-law, to what became Sangamon county, arriving in April, 1819, and settled south of Spring creek, in what is now Gardner township, four miles west of Springfield. They had seven children in Sangamon county, namely--

LUCY, born Oct. 8, 1820, married David P. Robison. See his name.

EMILY J., born April 27, 1824, married John Skipton. See his name.

VERLINDA, died aged seven years.

CAROLINE, born Jan. 21, 1828, in Sangamon county, married James A. Patterson. They have nine children. EMILY A. married William W. Morgan. See his name. VIRLEY A., married John R. Henton, and lives near Linden, Kansas. The other seven live with their parents, five miles southwest of Springfield, Ill.

SARAH A., born Nov. 15, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Henry Washington Rickard. See his name.

JOHN M., born Aug. 12, 1833, married Mary Kendall, and both died.

GREEN VIRGIL, born Nov. 15, 1835, in Sangamon county, married Mary McClure, has five children, and resides near Linden, Osage county, Kansas.

JAMES B., born April 13, 1838, married December 29, 1864, to Mary F. Massie. They have three children, JACKEY E., CARRIE A., and LILLIAN G. and resides four miles west of Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Lucinda Sims died Sept. 26, 1864, and John Sims resides at his old homestead four miles west of Springfield, Ill.

HONESTY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS:--John Sims remembers that a few years after they came to the settlement their corn was all frost bitten, and he went to Madison county to obtain corn for seed and bread. He had to pay $1.00 per bushel for it, and wishing to haul all he could, he filled some sacks and laid them across the corn in the wagon bed. He stalled in the mud, in Macoupin county, and left his wagon there, several miles from any house, and where people traveling hundreds of miles had to pass it. When he went home for more teams, some unexpected obstacles presented themselves, and it was two weeks or more before he returned. When he did so, some of his corn was gone, but closer examination revealed the fact that money was tied in the sacks from which the corn was taken. Some was tied with horse hairs and some with strings, in small bunches, in all between eight and ten dollars; sufficient to fully compensate for the corn taken. He has hauled dry goods and groceries, in large and small packages, has stalled and left his wagon for days and weeks, and never knew anything to be stolen. When the land office was opened, in 1823, in Springfield, the receiver was ordered to send the coin to Louisville, Ky. The route was so difficult to travel and so long, that he was permitted, after one effort, to send it to St. Louis for safe keeping. Mr. Sims had a good team, and was called on to do the hauling. On more than one occasion he has loaded his wagon with boxes of gold and silver, amounting to from thirty to fifty thousand dollars. He has gone without any guard, been two or three nights on the road, would feed his horses tied to the wagon, sleep on some straw thrown over the boxes, and was never molested, and never thought there was danger.