Daughter of William Joseph Spencer and wife Mary Evelina White Spencer of rural Ovilla, Texas, Marietta married twice.

Her first husband was Henry G. Tune, native of Maury County, Tennessee who also resided in Ovilla, Texas. They eloped & married on 24 February 1887 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Marietta and Henry had five children, four daughters and one son: Lillian Edith, Henrietta, Robert William, Jimmie Allie, and Nina Mary Tune. Sadly, after only ten years of marriage, Henry died 29 July 1897 in Dallas, Texas after brain surgery.

Marietta married a second time to Paris Lindsey Sims on 13 December 1898 and they had five children, three daughters and two sons: Kate Bell, Marie L., Jeannie Spencer, Tom L. and Paris L. "Bay" Sims.

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March 5, 1887
Location: Texas
Paper: Weekly Times Herald

"Romance from Shreveport"

Shreveport, La., February 26--

"On arrival of the train from the west yesterday evening, Justice Cole D. Hicks, in the reception room of the Tilly Hotel, married Mr. Henry Tune and Miss Etta Spencer, of Waxahachie, Texas. On inquiry it was learned that the bride is the daughter of Mr. J. W. Spencer, a well known stock man and land owner near Waxahachie, and the groom is a thrifty young farmer in the same locality. Opposition on the part of the old folks caused the young couple to run away and join hands for life on Louisiana soil. They will return home in a short time, when the usual forgiveness will no doubt follow."

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Obituary for Marietta Ann Spencer Tune Sims

Waxahachie Daily Light Newspaper
Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas
Copy from the Nicholas P. Sims Library
Waxahachie, Texas

Monday, August 19, 1946
Mrs. Sims of Ovilla is Dead at 75

Last Rites to be held at 4 P. M. on Tuesday at Ovilla

Mrs. Marietta Ann Sims, 75, of Ovilla, died at 10:50 A. M. at the home of her daughter Mrs. Kate Weatherford, 306 North Rogers Street, with whom she was visiting. She was born September 26, 1870 at Ovilla and has lived on the same farm there all of her life. She was the daughter of the late W. J. and Mary White Spencer. In 1887, she was married to Henry Tune, who died in 1897. She was then married in 1898 to P. L. Sims, who survives her. She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Shiloh.
Surviving her are her husband, P. L. Sims, Ovilla; two sons, Robert Tune, Ovilla and Paris L. Sims, Ovilla, six daughters, Mrs Edith Sims, Weatherford; Mrs Jimmy Ragan, Alabama; Mrs. Nina Dulworth, Dallas; Mrs Kate Weatherford, Waxahachie; Mrs. Marie Deeds, Midlothian; Mrs. Jennie Chowning, De Soto; one brother, George Spencer, Waxahachie,; three half-brothers, D. B. Spencer, Dallas, Coby Spencer, Michigan; W. J. Spencer, California; one half-sister, Mrs Aline Helland, Dallas; several grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. Two children preceded Mrs. Sims in death.

The remains are at Saxon-Boze-Mitchell Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p. m. Tuesday at Shiloh Presbyterian Church at Ovilla, followed by burial in Shiloh Cemetery.

Marietta is buried between her two husbands, Henry G. Tune & Paris L. Sims.

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Although we never met, you are remembered with much affection. Rest in peace dear one.