On January 18, 1840, Emily Mimms married Andrew Jackson Raines in Macon County, Alabama. I am searching for the parents of Emily. I suspect that she was either the daughter or sister of Littleton Mims of Macon County, because she and Jackson Raines named their son (my great-grandfather) James Andrew Jackson Littleton Raines. Emily seems to have been a bit old to have been Littleton's daughter, however. Another possible candidate to be her father is an H. Mims who also appears on the 1840 census in Macon County. I believe this is the Henry Mims who was born in Georgia and later died in Texas. I believe that both Emily and Jackson may have died young, because as of the 1860 census, their son James was living with Jackson's sister, Sarah Raines Ogletree and her husband, Lafayette (L.G. Ogletree). I have tried to tie this branch of the Mims family to the Mims family of Baldwin County, Alabama, without success. A complicating factor is that Jackson Raines was part Creek Indian, and I doubt that any member of the Mims family of Baldwin County would have been in the mood to consort with Indians. If anyone has heard of any of these people, I would like to talk to you. I have a fair amount of information on the Raines family, but nothing on the Mimses except Emily's name. You can e-mail me at sehoytwo@aol.com, Thanks. Suzanne Anthony Gorey