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WILLIAM T. SIMS is the son of William and Sarah (Orr) Sims, the father a native of Alabama and the mother of Tennessee. Mr. Sims, Sr., is a farmer, which vocation he has followed all his life, and is living at the present time in Calloway County, Ky.,where he moved in 1874. William T. Sims, a native of Tennessee, passed his youth and early manhood in working on his father’s place, and in 1855 began life for himself as farmer and lumber merchant, which occupations he followed until the breaking out of the civil war, in 1861, when he enlisted in the Forty-sixth Regiment Tennessee Infantry, with which he served until 1865, participating in the battles and skirmishes of Gens. Johnston and Hood’s celebrated campaigns. He went out as a private, but on the reorganization of the regiment in 1863 was promoted captain of his company, and held his commission until mustered out of service at the close of the war. Mr. Sims was married, in 1866, to Mrs. Hart, daughter of Oswell and Macinda (Wheeler) Brown, both natives of Kentucky. In 1878 he came to his present place of residence, in Lynnville Precinct, where he owns one of the best improved farms in the county. He was elected magistrate in 1878, and again in 1882, and holds the office at the present time. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and together with his wife belongs to the Lynnville Methodist Episcopal Church South.