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bel. married William Averett jMcKenney, M. D. 9. Jacob Giles Morris, married Mar- garet Blanche, daughter of George David Walker and ^lartha Lewis (Ramsay) Man- ning; issue, one son, died in infancy. 10. Emmeline Virginia, married James Clinton Kinnier.

(XVII) Daniel Allen Langhorne, M. D., son of Colonel Maurice and Elizabeth (Allen) Langhorne, was lieutenant of Com- pany C, Confederate States army. He mar- ried (first) Sarah Wistar Morris, of Phila- delphia. He married (second) Virginia Preston Kent. Issue, an only son, Maurice, who died in childhood.

George Kimbrough Sims, M. D. Dr. Sims' profession is that of his father. Dr. Fred- erick Hezekiah Sims, of Louisa county, Vir- ginia, that place long the home of the Sims family and the birthplace of Dr. George Kimbrough Sims, a well-known member of the medical fraternity of Richmond. For two years, from 1896 to 1898, Dr. Sims first made Richmond the scene of his professional labors, and upon the outbreak of war with Spain volunteered for service and became a surgeon in the army, serving in Hawaii and the Philippines with the rank of captain of volunteers. x-Xfter army service of five years. Dr. Sims returned to Richmond, where he has since 1903 continued in suc- cessful professional activity. Descendant of an old Louisa county family. Dr. Sims is a grandson of Hezekiah Sims, a native and lifelong resident of Louisa county, where he lived to an advanced age. Hezekiah Sims was the father of three children, Fran- ces, married James B. Shelton, and resided in Louisa county; Dr. Frederick Hezekiah, of whom further ; Thomasia. married T. C. Anderson, and died in Kentucky.

Dr. Frederick Hezekiah Sims, son of Hezekiah Sims, was born in Louisa county, Virginia, in 1833, ^"<i died in 1885, having passed his entire years in medical practice in the county of his birth. He was a physi- cian of high professional standing, esteemed as a man and a citizen, and filled the years of his life with useful labors. He married Maria Louisa Kimbrough, born in Louisa county. Virginia, in 1839, died in 1903, daughter of Captain Charles Yancy Kim- brough. Captain Charles Yancy Kim- brough was born in Louisa county, Vir- ginia, followed agriculture, represented his

district in the Virginia legislature, and was one of the organizers of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, an early president of the road from which that grew, the Louisa railroad, whose operations were confined to Virginia. His wife was a Miss Potty, a native of Louisa county, and they were the parents of; Ella, married Matthew Anderson, and resided in Hanover county, Virginia; George, a physician ; Charles, a farmer ; Car- oline, married a Mr. Harris ; Maria Louisa, of previous mention, married Dr. Frederick Hezekiah Sims. Children of Dr. Frederick Hezekiah Sims and his wife, Maria Louisa (Kimbrough) Sims: John H., died aged thirty years ; Frederick Wilmer, born in 1862. a lawyer, formerly county judge and state senator, resides at Louisa Court House; Dr. George Kimbrough, of whom further; Mary Yancy, married Samuel M. Harris, of Richmond, Virginia ; Ella Kim- brough, unmarried, a stenographer of Rich- mond ; Carrie Louise, married Wylie H. Hubbard, of Buckingham Court House, clerk of court of Buckingham county ; and one child who died in infancy.

Dr. George Kimbrough Sims, son of Dr. Frederick Hezekiah and Maria Louisa (Kimbrough) Sims, was born in Louisa county, Virginia, March 18, 1865, and as a youth was his father's assistant on the home estate. His duties comprised farming, storekeeping, collecting, and the manage- ment of a saw mill and an oil distillery, and at the same time he attended the graded schools near his home, after becoming a stu- dent in the V^irginia Military Institute. In 1886 he became a telegraph operator in the employ of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, and he was afterward a train dispatcher with this same road and the Norfolk & Western. He subsequently entered the medical department of the University of V^irginia, and in 1894 took the degree M. D. from that institution, and for one year after graduation engaged in practice in Lowmoor, Virginia. After post-graduate studies in New York Polyclinic Institute, Dr. Sims came to Richmond, and from 1896 to 1898 was here actively engaged in practice. In the latter year he volunteered for service in the United States army in the campaign against Spain, and was detailed for duty in the Pacific, serving in Hawaii and the Philippines, in the capacity of assistant sur- geon, ranking as captain of volunteers. The