Bessie Lenan Tyler Sims Smith is the daughter of Washington "Wash" Tyler and Eliza L. J. Gist..
Her father Wash is on the 1860 census in Hempstead, Arkansas and is listed as a Trader..
I do not have information as to where Bessie's parents are buried..
At this time it is believed that Bessie was born in Spring Hill, Hempstead, Arkansas.. She was in Franklin county, Al by the 1870 census.
She was married first to Joseph G. Sims in 1887 in Walker Co, Al.
They had the following children:
1. Mary Sims
2. Maude Sims
3. Samuel Sims
4. Oscar Sims
5. Joseph Sims
Second marriage was to James Jackson Smith in 1907 in Walker Co ,Al.
They had the following children:
1. James Thomas (my grandfather)
2. Fannie Bessie
Bessie's siblings were:
1. Rachel "Adaline" Tyler m. William Thomas Faulkner
Lawrence, Tn
2. Ellen Aurene Tyler m. Valentine Ausburn Byrd
Lawrence, Tn
3. John Thomas Tyler m. Mary Jane Duboise
Lawrence, Tn
4. Calvin Washington Tyler m. 1. Mary Ann Stokes
2. Mary Honor Hall Thornton
Moulton, Lawrence Co., Al
5. Josephine "Josie" Tyler m. Francis Chapman Flanagan
Wolf Springs, Lawrence Co, Al
6. Elijah "Lige" Franklin Tyler m. Nora Marie (?)
Lauderdale Co, Al.
The photo of the cemetery gate IS NOT the Cross Roads cemetery where Grandma Bessie is buried. There are two cemeteries with the same name only a few miles apart.
Her father Wash is on the 1860 census in Hempstead, Arkansas and is listed as a Trader..
I do not have information as to where Bessie's parents are buried..
At this time it is believed that Bessie was born in Spring Hill, Hempstead, Arkansas.. She was in Franklin county, Al by the 1870 census.
She was married first to Joseph G. Sims in 1887 in Walker Co, Al.
They had the following children:
1. Mary Sims
2. Maude Sims
3. Samuel Sims
4. Oscar Sims
5. Joseph Sims
Second marriage was to James Jackson Smith in 1907 in Walker Co ,Al.
They had the following children:
1. James Thomas (my grandfather)
2. Fannie Bessie
Bessie's siblings were:
1. Rachel "Adaline" Tyler m. William Thomas Faulkner
Lawrence, Tn
2. Ellen Aurene Tyler m. Valentine Ausburn Byrd
Lawrence, Tn
3. John Thomas Tyler m. Mary Jane Duboise
Lawrence, Tn
4. Calvin Washington Tyler m. 1. Mary Ann Stokes
2. Mary Honor Hall Thornton
Moulton, Lawrence Co., Al
5. Josephine "Josie" Tyler m. Francis Chapman Flanagan
Wolf Springs, Lawrence Co, Al
6. Elijah "Lige" Franklin Tyler m. Nora Marie (?)
Lauderdale Co, Al.
The photo of the cemetery gate IS NOT the Cross Roads cemetery where Grandma Bessie is buried. There are two cemeteries with the same name only a few miles apart.
Bessie Lenan Tyler Sims Smith is the daughter of Washington "Wash" Tyler and Eliza L. J. Gist..
Her father Wash is on the 1860 census in Hempstead, Arkansas and is listed as a Trader..
I do not have information as to where Bessie's parents are buried..
At this time it is believed that Bessie was born in Spring Hill, Hempstead, Arkansas.. She was in Franklin county, Al by the 1870 census.
She was married first to Joseph G. Sims in 1887 in Walker Co, Al.
They had the following children:
1. Mary Sims
2. Maude Sims
3. Samuel Sims
4. Oscar Sims
5. Joseph Sims
Second marriage was to James Jackson Smith in 1907 in Walker Co ,Al.
They had the following children:
1. James Thomas (my grandfather)
2. Fannie Bessie
Bessie's siblings were:
1. Rachel "Adaline" Tyler m. William Thomas Faulkner
Lawrence, Tn
2. Ellen Aurene Tyler m. Valentine Ausburn Byrd
Lawrence, Tn
3. John Thomas Tyler m. Mary Jane Duboise
Lawrence, Tn
4. Calvin Washington Tyler m. 1. Mary Ann Stokes
2. Mary Honor Hall Thornton
Moulton, Lawrence Co., Al
5. Josephine "Josie" Tyler m. Francis Chapman Flanagan
Wolf Springs, Lawrence Co, Al
6. Elijah "Lige" Franklin Tyler m. Nora Marie (?)
Lauderdale Co, Al.
The photo of the cemetery gate IS NOT the Cross Roads cemetery where Grandma Bessie is buried. There are two cemeteries with the same name only a few miles apart.
Her father Wash is on the 1860 census in Hempstead, Arkansas and is listed as a Trader..
I do not have information as to where Bessie's parents are buried..
At this time it is believed that Bessie was born in Spring Hill, Hempstead, Arkansas.. She was in Franklin county, Al by the 1870 census.
She was married first to Joseph G. Sims in 1887 in Walker Co, Al.
They had the following children:
1. Mary Sims
2. Maude Sims
3. Samuel Sims
4. Oscar Sims
5. Joseph Sims
Second marriage was to James Jackson Smith in 1907 in Walker Co ,Al.
They had the following children:
1. James Thomas (my grandfather)
2. Fannie Bessie
Bessie's siblings were:
1. Rachel "Adaline" Tyler m. William Thomas Faulkner
Lawrence, Tn
2. Ellen Aurene Tyler m. Valentine Ausburn Byrd
Lawrence, Tn
3. John Thomas Tyler m. Mary Jane Duboise
Lawrence, Tn
4. Calvin Washington Tyler m. 1. Mary Ann Stokes
2. Mary Honor Hall Thornton
Moulton, Lawrence Co., Al
5. Josephine "Josie" Tyler m. Francis Chapman Flanagan
Wolf Springs, Lawrence Co, Al
6. Elijah "Lige" Franklin Tyler m. Nora Marie (?)
Lauderdale Co, Al.
The photo of the cemetery gate IS NOT the Cross Roads cemetery where Grandma Bessie is buried. There are two cemeteries with the same name only a few miles apart.
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