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MILITARY - draft registrations and service records

   The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

 

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~

The National Archives and Records Administration maintains federal military records dating back to the American Revolution.  Ancestry.com, Fold3.com, and FamilySearch.org contain indexes and some images of military records from wars in which the United states participated.  A free index to Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers can be found at the National Park Service website, www.civilwar.nps.gov.

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I am the great-great-great granddaughter of Nathaniel Sims.  This website contains information about his life and details of his descendants.   Nathaniel Sims was born about 1794 in Wake County, North Carolina.  He was a farmer and also Justice of the Peace.  Nathaniel had five children with his first wife, Prudence Killough: James Anderson Sims, Rebecca Sue Sims, Samuel Killough Sims, Prudence N. Sims and Harriate Sims. He had three children by his second wife, Mary A. Morrison: Ann Mozelle Sims, Nathaniel McCamie Sims, and William M. Sims.  Nathaniel Sims passed away on 1 September 1968 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.  Some of his descendants continue living in North Carolina today.
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