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Sims was originally established by John S. Dean, James H. Finch, and L. S. Case, who incorporated under the name of the Agency Burying Ground Association Inc. on Mar. 16, 1855. The association purchased an acre from Pleasant W. Harris and his wife, Gemina. It was run as a private cemetery until it was given to the city in 1909.

According to tradition, the first burial was of an unidentified man who drowned while driving a team of oxen through the Des Moines River ford.

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