Lyda Sue Sims

Paper Trail (including census, multiple mentions in 1913 newspaper, obituary & death certificate)

There is a page for the Transcription of a taped 1998 conversation with her sister-in-law Mary Lou Hardison, in which she is often the topic of conversation.

Lyda Sue Sims Hardison

8-21-1900 to 11-15-1958

Siblings

Leslie Sims

Paul Sims

married 4-8-1928

William Leland Hardison

8-16-1895 to 6-25-1965

Children

one boy

one girl

parents:

John P. Sims

Effie Ann Amos

spouse's parents:

George Washington Hardison

Ida Tennessee Avery

maternal grandparents:

Tom Amos & Sarah Paul

paternal grandparents:

William Sims & Julia Cook

maternal aunts & uncles:

Mary, Ernest, James Amos, Lena, Kate (Moore), plus one more

paternal aunts & uncles:

Sudie, Robert, Ida

Click on image to enlarge. Once enlarged, to zoom, move cursor to right of image, back onto image, and click again. To see her (unlabeled) scrapbook from c. 1915-1925, click here: photo album c WWI.

She was married before marrying William Leland Hardison. By her daughter's recollection, the man might have been a music teacher. Her son's only knowledge of the first marriage is the memory that he once came across his mother in a melancholy mood. When he asked her what was wrong, she said she'd had another boy once, and it was his birthday. Being young, he didn't ask further (and didn't note the date). The story was that Lyda and her young man ran off together to get married. Her father came after them in a disapproving rage, complete with shotgun. They hid behind the counter in a store as he stormed through. But he did eventually get his way, and the marriage was annulled (she was probably too young). I have been unable to unearth any record of the marriage, or of a son born from it.

She didn't realize she was pregnant before her son was born--she thought she had a tumor. In fact she delivered an encapsulated tumor with him.

Her son recalled her death as a medical mishap. She had apparently ruputred a blood vessel and was bleeding into the cavity around her heart, as he described it. The condition is common enough that it should have been recognized but she was an overweight 58-year-old woman with non-specific complaints so they didn't figure it out. When they finally realized what the problem was, she had already been in the hospital for several days, going downhill. The solution was to insert a syringe and withdraw the blood, relieving the pressure that was keeping her heart from solid beating. Either they botched the procedure (his opinion) or she had become too weak (their opinion) but she had a heart attack and died during the procedure.

According to the information taken from the internet (citation given on page for Leslie Sims) her father and brothers founded a newspaper in Kentucky within three years of 1909.

7-31-1913 Miss Lida Sue Sims is visiting friends in Henry. (Her brother Paul lived in Henry.)

9-4-1913 Miss Carrie Greer of Alamo was the guest of Miss Lida Sue Sims this week.

9-25-1913 Mr. & Mrs. J.T. Amos and children of near Dyer visited Dr. J.P. Sims and family this week...Paul Sims of Henry has been at the bedside of his sister. Miss Lida Sue has been quite sick.

12-11-1913 Mrs. J.P. Sims and daughter, Miss Lida Sue, are visiting near Dyer... Will Amos of Dyer was a visitor here Saturday and Sunday.

12-25-1913 Dr. J.P. Sims and daughter, Miss Lida Sue, were visitors in Maury City Saturday

JP Sims, 58, printer--newspaper company, born TN of father born in TN and mother born in Alabama (it looks like)

Final rites were held Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock at the Friendship Church of Christ for Mrs. W.L. Hardison, who died in a Chicago hospital Saturday night after a heart attack. Norman Hogan, minister of the Friendship Church of Christ, officiated. Burial was in the Bellvernon Cemetery under the direction of Friendship Funeral Home.

Born and raised in Crockett County, Lyda Sue was the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. J.P. Sims of Friendship. As a young woman, she assisted her father and brother, Leslie, in the publication of the Tri-County News. She moved to Chicago about 30 years ago and was a member of the Grand Ave. Church of Christ. She was 58.

She leaves her husband, W.L. Hardison; a son, *** Hardison of Chicago; a daughter, Mrs. Bill *** of Denver, Colorado; two brothers, Leslie Sims, Editor of Sims Publications, Alamo, and Paul Sims, Editor of States Graphic, Brownsville, and five grandchildren.

Active pallbearers were James Carman, Atlas Lipford, Ham Haley, John Henry York, Henry York, and Wallace Morgan, all of Friendship.

Immediate cause: Congestive heart failure of 3 months duration due to multiple pulmonary emboli of unknown duration