Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Henry Taylor Sims

Full Name: Henry Taylor Sims
Birth date: July 13, 1850
Death date: May 1, 1922

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(3) E.J. Sims, Senate District 29. List of Senators of the 21st Legislature, "The State Senate: Members-Elect in the Different Districts - Austin Local Notes," Galveston Daily News, 11/20/1888, p. 6, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. "There are two independents in the list. The rest are democratic nominees." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(4) 21st Legislature - Roll call of new members, oath of office administered, 1/8/1889, p. 1. Senate Journal .

Census of 1880 - Henry T. Sims, Coleman County, Texas, age 31, born circa 1849 in Alabama, attorney-at-law, spouse Ida, daughter Lizzie A.
Census of 1900 - Henry Sims, Coleman, Coleman County, Texas, age 50, born July 1850 in Alabama, lawyer, spouse Ida R., daughters Willie, May, and Lizzie A. Mayers, son Lee.
Census of 1910 - Henry T. Sims, Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, age 60, born circa 1850 in Alabama, lawyer, spouse Ida, son Lee, daughter Ida Lee.
Census of 1920 - Henry T. Sims, Carter County, Oklahoma, age 69, born circa 1850 in Alabama, lawyer, spouse Ida R., daughter Ida Lee. FamilySearch . 1900 1880

H.F. [H.T.] Sims, birth date 7/13/1850 in Alabama, death date 5/1/1922 in Dallas, lawyer, informant Mrs. Ida Sims of Oklahoma City, burial in Ardmore, Oklahoma.. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Biographical sketch, Henry Taylor Sims, pp. 166-167. Born in Taladega [Talladega] County, Alabama, now about 36 years of age, married Ida Storn of Kentucky in 1874. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Henry Taylor Sims, pp. 216-217. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Obituary, "H.T. Sims, Formerly Coleman Lawyer Meets Tragic Death in Dallas," The Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Texas), 5/5/1922, p. 1, crediting Coleman Public Library. H.T. Sims, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, died on Monday (5/1/1922) in Dallas; "one of the first lawyers to locate in the frontier town of Coleman in fall of 1866 . . . and for a number of years sat in the Texas Senate as a member from West Texas." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Mentioned in "Through the Years - San Saba Representatives in Legislative History," 4/1/1948, p. 9. San Saba News .
Biographical sketch, Henry Taylor Sims, p. 391. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.