John Harrison MIMS & Caroline Hanson CRESAP

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Col. John Harrison MIMS
Caroline Hanson CRESAP

Husband: John Harrison MIMS / MIMMS
Birth: 6 Jun 1806, Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., VA [now WV]
Death: 12 Apr 1850, Eddyville, Caldwell [now Lyon] Co., KY
Occupation: school teacher
Father: Col. Linah MIMS
Mother: Rebecca DAVIS

Marriage: 4 Oct 1831, Caldwell Co., KY

Wife: Caroline Hanson CRESAP / CREASAP
Birth: 6 Jul 1811, Allegany Co., MD
Death: 1904, Clinton Co., KY
Father: Edward Otho CRESAP
Mother: Sarah Storey BRISCOE

Children — born in Eddyville, Caldwell [now Lyon] Co., KY:

1. Georgia / Georgina / Georginia / Georgiana Jorden MIMS, b. 24 Aug 1832; m. 28 Jan 1850, Caldwell Co., KY, Dr. William Wallace SMITH
2. Eudora Hanson MIMS, b. 26 Jun 1834; m. 27 Mar 1855, Mathew Martin LYON, Jr.
3. Hanson R. MIMS, b. 21 Aug 1836; d.s.p. 13 Jun 1859, New Orleans, LA (in a duel); unmarried
4. Victoria Theresa MIMS, b. 26 Sep 1838
5. Sarah Briscoe MIMS, b. 8 Mar 1841; d.s.p. 20 Jul 1855
6. Mary Annapola MIMS, b. 23 Sep 1844; d. 25 Dec 1923; m. 28 Mar 1866, William Walker SUBLETTE of Clinton Co., KY, and Montgomery Co., AL
7. Effie Cresap MIMS, b. 24 Nov 1846; d.s.p. 10 Mar 1852, Eddyville, Caldwell [now Lyon] Co., KY
8. Rebecca John MIMS, b. 21 Jun 1848; m. 21 Dec 1869, I.P. or J.P. or P.D. IMBODEN of Richmond, VA

Sources (n.b., Lyon Co. was formed from Caldwell Co. in 1854):

1. Jordan R. Dodd, ed. 1993. Kentucky Marriages: Early to 1850. Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-229):

Mimms, John H. Cresop, C. 4 Oct 1831 Caldwell Co.

Smith, W.W. Mims, Georgiana 28 Jan 1850 Caldwell Co.

2. 1840 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #47-48 of 94; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840 KY Caldwell Co. pp. 24B-25A Mims Jno H 100 010 001 - 121 010 000 320 200 - 322 000 0700000

These data indicate:nate

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 white male 4 or under 1835-1840 = Hanson (b. 1836)

1 white male 20-29 1810-1820 = John Harrison (b. 1806)

1 white male 60-69 1770-1780 = Linah (b. 1770-75)

1 white female 4 or under 1835-1840 = Victoria (b. 1838)

2 white females 5-9 1830-1835 = Eudora (b. 1834)
= Georgia (b. 1832)

1 white female 10-14 1825-1830 = Daughter A?

1 white female 20-29 1810-1820 = Caroline (b. 1811)

3 male slaves 9 or under 1830-1840 = ?

2 male slaves 10-23 1816-1830 = ?

2 male slaves 36-54 1785-1804 = ?

3 female slaves 9 or under 1830-1840 = ?

2 female slaves 10-23 1816-1830 = ?

2 female slaves 24-35 1804-1816 = ?

7 persons employed in agriculture

John should be in the next higher age category, yet there's no doubt these are our subjects.

3a. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1850 (Broderbund CD-317):

1850 Slave Schedule Mims, Caroline H. KY Caldwell Co. Dist. 2 p. 810

Why Caroline is missing from the index of the Population Schedules, I don't know. She might turn up in a page-by-page search of the Caldwell County Population Schedules.

3b. 1850 Census Images: Slave Schedules (online at Ancestry.com; Image #18 of 38): 2nd District, Caldwell Co., KY, p. 810, enumerated 20 Sep 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Name
of
Slave Owner Number
of
Slaves Description Fugitive
from the
State Number
manumitted Deaf & dumb,
blind, insane,
or idiotic.

Age Sex Colour

Caroline H. Mims 1 50 F B

" 1 12 M B

Most of Col. John's slaves must have been bequeathed to his children (or sold).

3c. 1850 Census Index/Microfilm (online at GenealogyLibrary.com): 1st District, Trigg Co., KY, p. 290B, 13/13, enumerated 2 Aug 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

M M Tyler 35 M Lawyer Virginia

Sarah J Tyler 31 F Kentucky

R H Cobb 14 M same

Irene Cobb 13 F same

Linah M Cobb 12 M same

Byron O Mims 11 M same

John H Mims 9 M same

Linah Mims 7 M same

Sarah Jane (MIMS) TYLER is Col. John's sister. Secondary sources say these MIMS children are sons of our subject, but there is no room for Byron in Col. John's household in the 1840 census (unless Byron's age, here, is wrong). And as Caroline is still alive and a widow of means, why would any of her children not be living with her?

4. William Henry Perrin, ed. 1884. County of Christian, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey Publ. Co., Chicago.

p. 277 CHAPTER XII...
UNION SCHOOLHOUSE PRECINCT, designated on the map as No. 6, extends from Hopkinsville Precinct on the east to the Trigg County line on the west. On the north it is bounded by Bainbridge and Hamby Precincts, and on the south by the Lafayette Precinct... Little River laves its entire southern border, dividing it from Lafayette Precinct, while the Sinking Fork of that river forms the western border, dividing it from Bainbridge Precinct.

p. 278 About 1806 [Samuel MEANS] built a schoolhouse, the first in the precinct, in which his brother William afterward taught. The old Means school is memorable not only from the fact that some eminent men have taught in it, but also from the further fact that from its classic precincts many of its scholars have gone forth into the world to win fame. As teachers after William Means may be mentioned, among others, Joseph Bozarth, Otho Graves, Addison Stevenson, Thomas Smith (who afterward became a distinguished Unitarian minister), and John Mimms...

p. 279 Mr. Mimms, the father of John, Addison and David Mimms, came from Virginia about 1816-17, and settled about one mile west of Means' Spring...

Is this John MIMMS really our subject? It doesn't seem like he stayed long enough in Christian Co. to have been mentioned as a school teacher there. I am assuming "Mr. Mimms" is Linah MIMS, as he was the only MIMS in Christian Co. during this period. (Shadrach MIMS and Gideon MIMS — first cousins of Linah — were in the part of Christian Co. that became Todd Co. in 1820.)

5. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

6. Old Caldwell County Queries [link died].

7. Archives of the MIMS-L mailing list (online at RootsWeb.com).

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