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SIMSBORO, TEXAS is located near Farm Road 80 about nine miles west of Fairfield and three miles northwest of Teague in western Freestone County. The community was named for the Sims family, along with seventeen slaves (a second account says sixteen slaves), came from Thomas county, Georgia up the Trinity River from Galveston to Navarro Crossing and on to Freestone County in ox wagons, where they built their log cabin. It was built in 1852 when the buffalo were still roaming the prairies at will. Deer, wild turkey and other wild game were in abundance as were friendly Indians who hunted them. The Sims family has traced their family in this country through 27 generations. One of the earliest members of the Sims family to come to this country was Matthew Sims, who settled in Hanover County, Virginia in 1700. Matthew came from Somerset, England. Following the Revolutionary War quite a number of his descendants moved to Union County, South Carolina, and descendants from South Carolina group later moved to Georgia. It was from the Georgia group that the Freestone County Sims family is immediately descended. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Sims (Franks' grandparents), their 4 children and 17 slaves arrived in Freestone county in 1852.  Sterling Sims brought his slaves and purchased 490 acres in the western section of the county. By the late 1850s the settlement of Simsboro was established. The Sims family, silversmiths by trade, became blacksmiths, ironsmiths, and builders in the region.   
 
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Two of the sixteen slaves brought with the Sterling Sims family are "Uncle Billy Sims and Joe Preuitt. 

    

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