Bible of George S. Timmons & Wife of Jefferson City
From transcriptions prepared by W. A. Lyle, of Jefferson County, and subsequently typed and published by the Works Progress Administration under the title Jefferson County Bible Records.
Transcribed for this site from the WPA volume by Doris Kinser Fountain. We are extremely grateful to her.
Researchers Note: this is a transcription of a transcription of a transcription. Therefore, every item must be verified through separate sources.
Possession: Mrs. Neil Mims & her sister Miss Forest Timmons, Jefferson
City, Tenn.
Transcription: August 26, 1937
Marriages:
George S. Timmons and Martha Welby Rhoton were married Sept. 22, 1875
Helen Moore Timmons and Robert A. Henderson were married May 31, 1894
Emma Alice Timmons and Neil Brown Mims were married Dec. 8, 1902
Births:
Hugh Forest Mims was born Oct. 27, 1904
George Anderson Mims was born July 1, 1912
Note:
Adam Peck and Elizabeth Peck were pioneer setlers in Jefferson Co, TN,
coming from VA about 1788. They were great-great grandparents of Mrs.
Neil B. Mims and her sister Miss Forest Timmons
Births:
George S. Timmons was born Dec. 5, 1847 at Rogersville, TN
Martha Welby Rhoton, wife of George S. Timmons, was born Dec. 20, 1848
Helen Moore Timmons was born May 2, 1877 in Missouri
Emma Alice Timmons was born Dec. 8, 1882, New Market, Tennessee
Mattie Forest Timmons was born May 23, 1888 at New Market, Tennessee
Deaths:
Helen Moore Thomas died July 12, 1925
George S. Timmons died Jan. 4, 1928
Mrs. Martha Timmons died June 7, 1931
Neil D. Mims died Nov. 4, 1911
Hugh Forest Mims died April 15, 1918