Mildred Sims Huff Memoirs
This collection contains the memoirs of Mildred Sims Huff of Sevierville, Tennessee. Completed in December 1993, the memoir chronicle the story of her life and family. Huff's memoirs traces her life in East Tennessee as a young girl to a woman of eighty-three years of age reminiscing on the happiness of her life, marriage, and family. Although Huff does not state how long she has worked on her memoirs, she notes that "I seemed to have been in a hurry and now I am relieved to get this completed. Time is precious at my age. To be finished with my memoirs is a perfect Christmas present for me. Now I can lay down and sleep at night without jumping up to make a note of something else that came to mind."
Dates
- 1993
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
This collection contains a copy of the memoirs of Mildred Sims Huff of Sevierville, Tennessee. Huff's memoirs, completed in December 1993, chronicle the story of her life and family.
Biographical/Historical Note
Mildred Sims Huff (born June 11, 1919) was the eighth of ten children of John Marion and Huldia Paralee Thomas Sims. Huff attended high school in Sevierville and later moved to Knoxville where she met her future husband, Gavin Clint Huff (1915-1997), an employee of the State Highway Patrol. They married in Loudon in 1940. In 1942, the family moved to California but just two years later, they returned to east Tennessee. Huff died January 12, 2006, and is buried in Sevier County.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository