He was the son of Charles C. Simms and Elizabeth Nourse Simms.
On December 12, 1901 as Richard Douglas Simms, he married Emily Redin Dunlop in the District of Columbia.
They were the parents of two children.
The Evening Star Friday, April 2, 1920
Rites For Gen. Simms To Be Held Tomorrow
Services at St. Alban's Church at 2 O'Clock
D.C. Guardsmen to Escort Body
Funeral services for Brigadier General Richard D. Simms, Treasurer of the Capital Traction Company and Commander of the District National Guard, will be held tomorrow afternoon at St. Alban's Church at 2 o'clock. Interment probably will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The body of General Simms arrived in Washington last night form Asheville, North Carolina, where he ended his life Wednesday. Mrs. Simms and Miss Elizabeth Simms, her daughter, a pupil at the Holton Arms School of this city, accompanied the body home. An escort of forty men from the District National Guard will accompany the body to the grave and fire a volley over the last resting place of the commander. A bugler from the Guard will blow taps.
The committee on public order of the Board of Trade will eulogize the memory of Brigadier General Simms at a meeting in the board rooms this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Odell S. Smith, Chairman, will preside. Brigadier General Simms was a member of the committee.
Died
Simms. March 31, 1920, at Asheville, North Carolina, Richard Douglas Simms, beloved husband of Emily Dunlop Simms, in the 52d year of his age. Services at St. Alban's Church, Saturday, April 3, at 2PM. Interment private.
Greensboro Daily News Thursday, April 1, 1920
Greensboro, North Carolina
General G.B. Simms Apparently A Suicide
Body Of Washington Man Hanging From Tree At Asheville
Was Sanitarium Patient
(By Associated Press)
Asheville, March 31. Counties authorities reported tonight that they had cut down the body of General Richard D. Simms, aged 52, of Washington, a patient at a local sanatorium from a roadside tree, where it has been found hanging some hours after life was extinct. General Simms' horse was found nearby and official said he had apparently ridden under the tree, knotted the rope around his neck, tied the other end to a limb and then spurred his horse out from under him. At the sanitarium officials in charge would only say that the body had been found at the roadside.
Was Native Of Washington And Prominent Socially
Washington, March 31. Brigadier General Richard D. Simms, whose death was announced from Asheville, was a native of Washington. For many years he was purchasing agent for the District of Columbia, resigning in 1905 to become Treasurer of the Capital Traction Company. Joining the District National Guard in 1888 as a private, he was promoted until he reached the rank of brigadier-general in 1918. He served as captain in the Spanish-American War. General Simms was prominent socially and a member of several clubs. One daughter survives.
On December 12, 1901 as Richard Douglas Simms, he married Emily Redin Dunlop in the District of Columbia.
They were the parents of two children.
The Evening Star Friday, April 2, 1920
Rites For Gen. Simms To Be Held Tomorrow
Services at St. Alban's Church at 2 O'Clock
D.C. Guardsmen to Escort Body
Funeral services for Brigadier General Richard D. Simms, Treasurer of the Capital Traction Company and Commander of the District National Guard, will be held tomorrow afternoon at St. Alban's Church at 2 o'clock. Interment probably will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The body of General Simms arrived in Washington last night form Asheville, North Carolina, where he ended his life Wednesday. Mrs. Simms and Miss Elizabeth Simms, her daughter, a pupil at the Holton Arms School of this city, accompanied the body home. An escort of forty men from the District National Guard will accompany the body to the grave and fire a volley over the last resting place of the commander. A bugler from the Guard will blow taps.
The committee on public order of the Board of Trade will eulogize the memory of Brigadier General Simms at a meeting in the board rooms this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Odell S. Smith, Chairman, will preside. Brigadier General Simms was a member of the committee.
Died
Simms. March 31, 1920, at Asheville, North Carolina, Richard Douglas Simms, beloved husband of Emily Dunlop Simms, in the 52d year of his age. Services at St. Alban's Church, Saturday, April 3, at 2PM. Interment private.
Greensboro Daily News Thursday, April 1, 1920
Greensboro, North Carolina
General G.B. Simms Apparently A Suicide
Body Of Washington Man Hanging From Tree At Asheville
Was Sanitarium Patient
(By Associated Press)
Asheville, March 31. Counties authorities reported tonight that they had cut down the body of General Richard D. Simms, aged 52, of Washington, a patient at a local sanatorium from a roadside tree, where it has been found hanging some hours after life was extinct. General Simms' horse was found nearby and official said he had apparently ridden under the tree, knotted the rope around his neck, tied the other end to a limb and then spurred his horse out from under him. At the sanitarium officials in charge would only say that the body had been found at the roadside.
Was Native Of Washington And Prominent Socially
Washington, March 31. Brigadier General Richard D. Simms, whose death was announced from Asheville, was a native of Washington. For many years he was purchasing agent for the District of Columbia, resigning in 1905 to become Treasurer of the Capital Traction Company. Joining the District National Guard in 1888 as a private, he was promoted until he reached the rank of brigadier-general in 1918. He served as captain in the Spanish-American War. General Simms was prominent socially and a member of several clubs. One daughter survives.
He was the son of Charles C. Simms and Elizabeth Nourse Simms.
On December 12, 1901 as Richard Douglas Simms, he married Emily Redin Dunlop in the District of Columbia.
They were the parents of two children.
The Evening Star Friday, April 2, 1920
Rites For Gen. Simms To Be Held Tomorrow
Services at St. Alban's Church at 2 O'Clock
D.C. Guardsmen to Escort Body
Funeral services for Brigadier General Richard D. Simms, Treasurer of the Capital Traction Company and Commander of the District National Guard, will be held tomorrow afternoon at St. Alban's Church at 2 o'clock. Interment probably will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The body of General Simms arrived in Washington last night form Asheville, North Carolina, where he ended his life Wednesday. Mrs. Simms and Miss Elizabeth Simms, her daughter, a pupil at the Holton Arms School of this city, accompanied the body home. An escort of forty men from the District National Guard will accompany the body to the grave and fire a volley over the last resting place of the commander. A bugler from the Guard will blow taps.
The committee on public order of the Board of Trade will eulogize the memory of Brigadier General Simms at a meeting in the board rooms this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Odell S. Smith, Chairman, will preside. Brigadier General Simms was a member of the committee.
Died
Simms. March 31, 1920, at Asheville, North Carolina, Richard Douglas Simms, beloved husband of Emily Dunlop Simms, in the 52d year of his age. Services at St. Alban's Church, Saturday, April 3, at 2PM. Interment private.
Greensboro Daily News Thursday, April 1, 1920
Greensboro, North Carolina
General G.B. Simms Apparently A Suicide
Body Of Washington Man Hanging From Tree At Asheville
Was Sanitarium Patient
(By Associated Press)
Asheville, March 31. Counties authorities reported tonight that they had cut down the body of General Richard D. Simms, aged 52, of Washington, a patient at a local sanatorium from a roadside tree, where it has been found hanging some hours after life was extinct. General Simms' horse was found nearby and official said he had apparently ridden under the tree, knotted the rope around his neck, tied the other end to a limb and then spurred his horse out from under him. At the sanitarium officials in charge would only say that the body had been found at the roadside.
Was Native Of Washington And Prominent Socially
Washington, March 31. Brigadier General Richard D. Simms, whose death was announced from Asheville, was a native of Washington. For many years he was purchasing agent for the District of Columbia, resigning in 1905 to become Treasurer of the Capital Traction Company. Joining the District National Guard in 1888 as a private, he was promoted until he reached the rank of brigadier-general in 1918. He served as captain in the Spanish-American War. General Simms was prominent socially and a member of several clubs. One daughter survives.
On December 12, 1901 as Richard Douglas Simms, he married Emily Redin Dunlop in the District of Columbia.
They were the parents of two children.
The Evening Star Friday, April 2, 1920
Rites For Gen. Simms To Be Held Tomorrow
Services at St. Alban's Church at 2 O'Clock
D.C. Guardsmen to Escort Body
Funeral services for Brigadier General Richard D. Simms, Treasurer of the Capital Traction Company and Commander of the District National Guard, will be held tomorrow afternoon at St. Alban's Church at 2 o'clock. Interment probably will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The body of General Simms arrived in Washington last night form Asheville, North Carolina, where he ended his life Wednesday. Mrs. Simms and Miss Elizabeth Simms, her daughter, a pupil at the Holton Arms School of this city, accompanied the body home. An escort of forty men from the District National Guard will accompany the body to the grave and fire a volley over the last resting place of the commander. A bugler from the Guard will blow taps.
The committee on public order of the Board of Trade will eulogize the memory of Brigadier General Simms at a meeting in the board rooms this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Odell S. Smith, Chairman, will preside. Brigadier General Simms was a member of the committee.
Died
Simms. March 31, 1920, at Asheville, North Carolina, Richard Douglas Simms, beloved husband of Emily Dunlop Simms, in the 52d year of his age. Services at St. Alban's Church, Saturday, April 3, at 2PM. Interment private.
Greensboro Daily News Thursday, April 1, 1920
Greensboro, North Carolina
General G.B. Simms Apparently A Suicide
Body Of Washington Man Hanging From Tree At Asheville
Was Sanitarium Patient
(By Associated Press)
Asheville, March 31. Counties authorities reported tonight that they had cut down the body of General Richard D. Simms, aged 52, of Washington, a patient at a local sanatorium from a roadside tree, where it has been found hanging some hours after life was extinct. General Simms' horse was found nearby and official said he had apparently ridden under the tree, knotted the rope around his neck, tied the other end to a limb and then spurred his horse out from under him. At the sanitarium officials in charge would only say that the body had been found at the roadside.
Was Native Of Washington And Prominent Socially
Washington, March 31. Brigadier General Richard D. Simms, whose death was announced from Asheville, was a native of Washington. For many years he was purchasing agent for the District of Columbia, resigning in 1905 to become Treasurer of the Capital Traction Company. Joining the District National Guard in 1888 as a private, he was promoted until he reached the rank of brigadier-general in 1918. He served as captain in the Spanish-American War. General Simms was prominent socially and a member of several clubs. One daughter survives.
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Frame with cross in center, grass, inscriptions on frame:
The work of righteous shall be peace.
RICHARD DOUGLAS SIMMS
March 29, 1868 – March 31, 1920.
EMILY DUNLOP SIMMS
November 21, 1872 – June 25, 1931.
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