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picture John Jefferson Mims 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 15 Oct 1884 2,89
    Christening: 
          Death: 11 Mar 1949 2,83
         Burial: Clayton - Bethsaida Baptist Cemetery, Barbour County, Alabama 2,83
 Cause of Death:
Events


Notes
• Photo: John Jefferson Mims family. courtesy of John Phil McLaney Jr.


• Photo: Family Bible. Page with Marriage Certificate for Johnnie Jefferson Mims of Louisville to Maggie Dorance Greene of Clayton on 24 July 1905
Courtesy of John Phil McLaney, Jr.


• Photo: Mims Family Bible. Courtesy of John Phil McLaney, Jr.


• Photo: Inside cover of Mims Family Bible. Inscribed by Sollie Mims, Howard Mims, and J. C. Mims
Courtesy of John Phil McLaney, Jr.


• Photo: Mims Family Bible: Cover Page and Title Page. Courtesy of John Phil McLaney, Jr.


• Photo: Mims Family : Births. Courtesy of John Phil McLaney, Jr.


• Photo: Mims Family Bible: More births. Although the page is labeled "Marriages" it has more family births listed on it. Courtesy of John Phil McLaney, Jr.


• Photo: Mims Family Bible: Deaths. Courtesy of John Phil McLaney, Jr.
• He appeared on the 1900 , U. S. Federal census in Star Hill, Barbour County, Alabama.
In household of Thomas J. Mims,
John J.Oct 188415
2
• He appeared on the 1920 , U. S. Federal census in Beat 8, Barbour County, Alabama.
MIMS, John J. 35
Maggie 35
Mattie L. 13
Sollie D. 10
Howard C. 8
Olan 6
J.C. 2 3/12
57
• He appeared on the 1930 , U. S. Federal census in Clayton - Pct 7, Barbour County, Alabama.
MIMS, John 45 married at age 20 $400
Maggie 45 married at age 20
Howard 18
Olan 16
J.C 12

Next to L. C. McLaney household
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• J. J. Mims's obituary was copied from old newspaper clippings in possession of Grace McLaney Pittman Green, believed to be from the Clayton Currier or Clayton Record.
J.J. Mims died at Home Near Louisville Last Friday.
Mr. Johnnie Jefferson Mims, 64, died at his home on Louisville Route Three, last Friday March 11, [ 1949]after a few months illness.
He was the son of the late Johnnie Jefferson Mims and Mary Caroline Greathouse, early residences of this county. Mr. Mims had resided in Barbour County his entire lifetime, where he was engaged in farming.
Funeral services were held Sunday, March 13, at Bethsaida Church. He was a member of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, and will be missed by its congregation.
His wife preceded him to the grave a number of years ago.
Pallbearers were L.J. Mims [Lantie Jackson , son of Walter Jackson Mims], Ford Mims [son of Hobson Mims], Olen Mims [son of Albert Mims], Eeck Gilley [Tex, son of Pearl Mims Gilley] , D. Arrington [ husband of Jean, son-in-law of Hobson Mims], and Hastel Williams [son of Ann Mims Williams]. [Note: All Pallbearers were nephews of the deceased.]
Internment was in the church cemetery with Godwin Funeral Home, Clayton, in charge.
Mr. Mims is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Mattie McLaney, and one son, Sollie Mims, both of Louisville, route 3; two sisters, Mrs. Annie M. Williams and Mrs. Pearl Gillis, of Hartford, Ala., two brothers, Walter Mims, Hartford, Ala. and Albert Mims, Largo, Florida; 18 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews

Parents 
         Father: John Thomas Jefferson Mims (1861-1927) 2 
         Mother: Mary Caroline "Polly" Greathouse (1860-1939) 2,29,54,55
Spouses and Children 
1. *Margaret  "Maggie"  Dorane Greene (2 Nov 1884 - 3 Jul 1948) 2,57,89 
       Marriage: 24 Jul 1905 2
       Children:
                1. Mattie Lou Mims (1906-1974) 2,57,83
                2. Sollie D. Jefferson Mims (1910-1976) 2,57,83,87
                3. Howard C. Mims (1911-1947) 2,57
                4. Olan Randolph Mims (1913-1948) 2,57
                5. J. C. Mims (1917-1938) 2,57
Notes
General:
Source: John Phil McLaney, Jr.
John Mims was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, serving as a messenger to the Eufaula Baptist Association, Barbour County, in 1914 (History of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, p.13). J. J. Mims and James "Freemon" Strickland built the current church building at Bethsaida Church in the 1920s that replaced the old log church located at the North end of the Cemetery.

Source: e-mail Ann Mims Neff taken from family Bible in the possession of John Ervin Mims, son of Sollie Jefferson Mims, Society Hill, Macon Co., AL.
2009-This Bible is now in possession of his sister, Louise Mims Dunn, Ozark, AL 94

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