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Velma Cate

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Velma Cate

    Other Events:

    • Name: Velma Simms

    Velma married Turner Roy Simms (son of Sherrod Simms and Linnie Mae Campbell) [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Evelyn Simms  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 3. Carolyn Simms  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 4. Marie Simms  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 5. Wanda Simms  Descendancy chart to this point
    5. 6. Linda Simms  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1952; died in 1977 in Kodak, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    6. 7. Sherrill R. Simms  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Oct 1953; died on 02 Jul 1971 in Kodak, Sevier County, Tennessee.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Evelyn Simms Descendancy chart to this point (1.Velma1)

    Evelyn married Colbert Strange. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Carolyn Simms Descendancy chart to this point (1.Velma1)

    Carolyn married J. D. Grindstaff. [Group Sheet]


  3. 4.  Marie Simms Descendancy chart to this point (1.Velma1)

    Marie married Earl Stiles. [Group Sheet]


  4. 5.  Wanda Simms Descendancy chart to this point (1.Velma1)

    Wanda married Harold Ogle. [Group Sheet]


  5. 6.  Linda Simms Descendancy chart to this point (1.Velma1) was born in 1952; died in 1977 in Kodak, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Linda Davis

    Notes:

    Died:
    Linda Sims (1952-1977), the youngest daughter of Turner & Velma Cate Sims, was killed at age 24 in the Kodak Bank Robbery (Citizens National Bank) where whe was employed, along with two other employees and one customer. Linda was married to Jim Davis; there were no cihldren. - Sevier County & Its Heritage; article submitted by C. M. Stiles from family records; pg. 342-343.

    Linda married James Davis. [Group Sheet]


  6. 7.  Sherrill R. Simms Descendancy chart to this point (1.Velma1) was born on 18 Oct 1953; died on 02 Jul 1971 in Kodak, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Notes:

    Died:
    Sherrill Sims (1952-1971), the youngest of six children and the only son of Turner & Velma Cate Sims, was killed in an automobile accident in 1971 along with two other friends. He was seventeen. -- Sevier County and Its Heritage; pg 343.

    Sims, Sherrill, 17, DOA Sevier County Hospital; killed in auto near Kodak School. Friends, Dennis Smith and Jerry Cooper also died in accident. Survived by parents of Kodak, TN; 5 sisters, Mrs. Colbert (Evelyn) Strange, Mrs. J. D. (Carolyn) Grandstaff, Mrs. Earl (Marie) Stiles, Mrs. Harold (Wanda) Ogle, Mrs. Jim (Linda) Davis all of Kodak; 4 nephews, Rodney & Mark Strange, David Grandstaff, Stanley Stiles; grandmother, Mrs. Hattie Cate, Mrs. Lennie Sims. He was a member of French Broad Valley Baptist Church. (The Official Atchley Funeral Home Records, Sevierville, Tennessee; Published by the Smoky Mountain Historical Society)