T. S. Mims passed away Nov. 9, 2003 in San Antonio, Texas. Funeral Nov. 13 at Mission Park Funeral Chapels North. Burial will follow at Mission Burial Park North. Visitation will begin at 5 pm. Wednesday, Nov. 12 at the funeral home. T.S. was born Oct 8, 1924, in Cego, Texas. He was a resident of Waco, Texas for many years. He was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Mims in 2000; sisters, Ocie Ann Jacks and Marie Ledbetter; and brothers Roy and Leo Ledbetter. Survivors include his mother Ocie Ledbetter; daughters, Virgie Ann Maxwell, Deborah L. Dixon and husband, Lee; sons, Tommy E. Mims and wife Jackie, Bill Hall and wife, Clara; sisters; Sylvia Kirton and Linda Wallis; brothers, Guy Mims, Rodney Mims, G. L. Ledbetter and Melvin Ledgetter. Other survivors include numerous grandchildren, greaat-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends. Thomas S. Mims is a descendent of William Riley Mims and Martha Ann Pharr. Martha Pharr Mims came to Texas with her daughter Joseph Ann Mims Watson and son-in-law Andrew Jackson Watson in approximately 1890. Thomas Mims and his family also came about this time. He and Joseph Ann Mims were brother and sister. I descend from Andrew Jackson Watson and Joseph Ann Mims Watson. I will be happy to help anyone on this family line of Mims. Billie Watson Brem

Dear Billie, thank you so much for posting the obituary of T. S. Mims. The names are all very familiar. Do know if Thomas's family was ever in southern Alabama...Butler, Monroe or Baldwin Counties? I even have Pharrs that married into the Cone family which I have connected to the Mims line that I research. They are way out on a limb for me, but I knew so many of them in Monroeville, Alabama, that I am very interested in the family. The earliest Mims I have is also a Thomas Mims, born in April 1681. I have the info below that was on this List at one time. Any info will be appreciated. Freda >The Mims' supported the Stuart line in England and their name disappeared >with Sir John in England, and on or about this tiime we have the record of >their appearance in America. Thomas Mims, born before 1623 in England, died >Feb. 1693-4 in Virginia, Middlesex County. His known children were Elizabeth, >Thomas Jr., Sarah, Lionel, and wife, Melly Ann Martin." (From a paper read by >Miss Anne Mae Mims of Augusta, Georgia, before the Edgefield (S.C.) >Historical Society at the annual meeting June, 29, 1951; as quoted from the >chapter, Mims, The Family in Virginia, Family Record, written by Clara Mims >Wright Forrest and her mother, Anne Mims Wright, of Jackson Mississippi). > >"The earliest appearance of the name in any of it's variants on the extant >record of Virginia is in 1623, when it appears that Thomas Mimes was living >in Flower de Hundred, a settlement on the south side of the James River >which, in 1634, at the division of the colony into shires or counties, fell >within the present county of Charles City, and from then on the subdivision >fell within the present county of Prince George." (From Family Record, >written by Clara Mims Wright Forrest and her mother, Anne Mims Wright, of >Jackson Mississippi). > >"On February 3, 1662, Thomas Mimes was granted 800 acres of land in James >City County, Virginia, on the branches of the Chickahominy, adjoining Thomas >Meredith, and George Smith, Richmond Terrell, and Edmund Price..." (From >Senate Document - extra- Colonial Records of Virginia, Richmond, 1874, p. 40; >List of the Living and the Dead in Virginia, 1623; and Register of Land Offic >e, Patent Book No. 5, p. 124; all of the items in this email were listed - >including the references cited in Family Record, written by Clara Mims Wright >Forrest and her mother, Anne Mims Wright, of Jackson Mississippi). > >There are other items included in Family Record, including references to The >Joyce Manuscript; the Vestry Book of St. Peter's Parish, Virginia. > >As you may know, Anne Mims Wright was an exhaustive researcher who did most >of her early research in churches, court houses and state buildings around >1900-1910. >Col. Merritt in his address to the Edgefield Historical Society refers to a >Mims Book that she wrote and was not published. > >Anyone that does not have a copy of Col. Merritt's address should obtain a >copy, it's very detailed and interesting. >T. S. Mims passed away Nov. 9, 2003 in San Antonio, Texas. Funeral >Nov. 13 at Mission Park Funeral Chapels North. Burial will follow at >Mission Burial Park North. Visitation will begin at 5 pm. >Wednesday, Nov. 12 at the funeral home. > T.S. was born Oct 8, 1924, in Cego, Texas. He was a resident of >Waco, Texas for many years. > He was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Mims in 2000; sisters, >Ocie Ann Jacks and Marie Ledbetter; and brothers Roy and Leo >Ledbetter. > Survivors include his mother Ocie Ledbetter; daughters, Virgie >Ann Maxwell, Deborah L. Dixon and husband, Lee; sons, Tommy E. Mims >and wife Jackie, Bill Hall and wife, Clara; sisters; Sylvia Kirton >and Linda Wallis; brothers, Guy Mims, Rodney Mims, G. L. Ledbetter >and Melvin Ledgetter. Other survivors include numerous >grandchildren, greaat-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends. > >Thomas S. Mims is a descendent of William Riley Mims and Martha Ann >Pharr. Martha Pharr Mims came to Texas with her daughter Joseph Ann >Mims Watson and son-in-law Andrew Jackson Watson in approximately >1890. Thomas Mims and his family also came about this time. He and >Joseph Ann Mims were brother and sister. > >I descend from Andrew Jackson Watson and Joseph Ann Mims Watson. I >will be happy to help anyone on this family line of Mims. >Billie Watson Brem > > >==== MIMS Mailing List ==== >Ann Mims-Neff >List Moderator -- Researching my Southern Families: Roberson/Robertson/Robinson,Bonner, Blakely,Wright, Sills, Thornton, Canterbury, Godbold, Solomon, Pate, Grice, Herron, Regan, Sims, Boles, Jones.