Were you able to open the info I sent to you. I have collected this from many places so I sent notes and all so you could figure for yourself what is fact and what is fiction. I don't just send that to everyone but I know that you have been out there for a long time and will not take what I sent as gospel. Maybe my information will give you some leads on other places to look. Billie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted and Freda Noble" <tnoble@mcn.org> To: <MIMS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [MIMS,MIMMS,MIMBS] T. S. Mims > 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. > > > ==== MIMS Mailing List ==== > Ann Mims-Neff > List Moderator >