Hi Listers, With the help of many other Sims descendants I gathered documentation that enabled me to write a biography for my 5th great-grandfather, James Sims 1754-1845 of Nicholas County, (West) Virginia. James, born in Culpeper County, Virginia, was the only child of Jeremiah Sims and Agatha Nalle, both of Culpeper. Most of James' children lived in the Kanawha, Nicholas and Fayette counties and married into the families of the area including: Windsor, Johnson, Hughes, Hunter, Neal, Fowler, Stanley, Foster, Settle, Darlington, Summers, and Bays. His eldest son Jeremiah Sims moved to Clark County, Ohio, with his wife Sarah Milhollen probably in 1804. My line down from James Sims: James Sims[1] and his wife Phebe Nancy Ann Sims[2] and her husband William Johnson Jr. Huldah Johnson[3] and her husband Robert Ingram Irvin L. Ingram[4] and his wife Mary M. Dempsey Laura Belle Ingram Dempsey[5] and her husband William Henderson Dempsey Fred Rothwell Dempsey[6] and his wife Myrtle Hazel Roop Fred Roosevelt Dempsey[7] and his wife Catherine Josette Wildinger Catherine Ann Dempsey[8] married to Egon Meder David Fridley has uploaded the James Sims biography that I wrote and made it available for download. It can be reached at http://www.fridley.net/sims/. The file is 2.1 MB, so he added a 1.2 MB option for a zipped version of the file. Folks on IE 5 can also open the Word document directly in the browser to read or print. Feel free to pass this information on to others. Please e-mail me with comments, suggestions, corrections, or additions. Thank you. Best regards, Cathy Meder-Dempsey