FYI ----- Original Message ----- From: <sehoytwo@aol.com> To: <ALMACON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:22 AM Subject: [ALMacon] Re: Mims/Mimms Family > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADE/643.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Sylvia Mims was the wife of Littleton Mims and the daughter of Allen > Raines, Sr. who was born in Virginia c. 1770 and died in Macon County, > Alabama in 1853. I found his probate records at the Macon County > Courthouse and Sylvia is listed as his heir; that's how I established the > relationship. > > Sylvia Raines Mims was the sister of Andrew Jackson Raines who married > Emily Mimms/Mims in January 1840 in Macon County. > > Littleton Mims was Emily's uncle, the youngest brother of her father, > Henry Augustus Mims. > > Henry Augustus Mims (c. 1797-1864) married Sarah Wimberly (1801-bef. > 1860). They had three daughters born about 1819, 1822, and 1824. The > identity of these three girls was unknown until I found Emily's marriage > record and other Macon County records that identified her; the other two > older daughters remain unidentified. Based on the age of her husband, > Andrew Jackson Raines, I believe that Emily was the daughter born in 1822. > Henry and Sarah Mims also had children named Robert (1827), John Wesley > (1829), Lucinda (1833), Lewis Davis Wimberly (1935), and Henry Augustus, > Jr. (1839). > > Littleton, as I said, is believed to be Henry's youngest brother. There > is a young man residing in Henry's household on the 1830 census when Henry > still lived in Georgia who is probably Littleton. Both Henry and > Littleton Mims moved to Macon County, Alabama some time before 1840, as > both are located on the 1840 census in Macon County as of that year. > Littleton and Sylvia Mims probably married in Macon County, though I could > not find the record. They had several children, and one was named Robert, > but I have not done any significant amount of research on their branch of > the family because they are not in my direct line. > > After 1840, Littleton Mims just disappears. Presumably, he died, because > on later census records Sylvia shows up as the head of the household. She > and several of her sons eventually moved to Texas, where she died. > > The households of Andrew Jackson Raines and Littleton Mims were enumerated > on the same census sheet on the 1840 federal census, just a few households > apart. This is just pure speculation, but it seems logical that Sylvia > and Littleton Mims may have introduced Littleton's niece, Emily, to > Sylvia's younger brother, Jackson. Jackson Mims also died before 1840, as > witnessed by the fact that Emily Mims Raines remarried to a man named > James H. Smith and moved to Henry County, Alabama. There could have been > an epidemic in the area that carried off both Littleton and Jackson - you > know how things went in those days. > > I could find no record of Littleton's death in the Macon County records. > The probate records are sketchy before 1850, and being relatively young, > he may not have yet made a will when he died. Nor could I find out where > Littleton and Jackson are buried, but my money is on an area called > Pleasant Springs that is near the Franklin Community in southeastern Macon > County, Alabama, just off Interstate 85. Three of Emily and Jackson > Raines' four children returned to that area as adults, lived out their > lives there, and are buried in the cemetery at Pleasant Springs Baptist > Church. The church wasn't there prior to 1850, however. > > For more on information on this family, feel free to e-mail me. > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >