Bio: D. Samuel Mims, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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D. Samuel Mims is a planter by occupation, and like all the successful 
followers of that calling he is industrious, thrifty and persevering.  
He was born in Darlington District, S. C., May 31, 1846, to D. J.  and 
Maggie (Daniels) Mims, both of whom were born in the same State and 
district as their son.  They came to Louisiana in 1858 and settled 
within the present boundaries of Webster Parish and on land on which 
one of their sons is now residing in Ward 1.  He passed from life in 
July, 1883.  His first wife died in South Carolina, when the subject 
of this sketch was a small child, he being one of their seven children-
four sons and three daughters.  He attained manhood in Louisiana, and 
in 1864 joined Harrison's cavalry, and served until the close of the 
war.  He had two brothers in the Twelfth Louisiana Regiment, both of 
whom died while in the service.  D. Samuel Mims served west of the 
Mississippi River, and although he was in a number of hard skirmishes 
he was in no regular engagement.  After the surrender he returned home,
and until twenty-one years of age remained with his father, but has 
since been doing for himself.  He purchased a farm in Ward 1, which 
he continued to till up to 1872, when he purchased the place on which 
he is now residing, on which, at that time, bur few improvements have 
been made.  It is seven miles north of Minden and comprises 800 acres, 
of which 300 acres are under cultivation and fenced.  On this land is 
a substantial residence, a good new steam cotton-gin with improved 
machinery, good outbuildings, etc.  Mr. Mims has been exceptionally 
successful as a farmer, and the most of his property has been accumulated 
by hard work and good management.  He was married on September 15, 1868, 
to Miss Mary Ellen Stewart, a daughter of Dougal Stewart.  Mrs. Mims 
was born in Alabama, and reared and educated in Webster Par., Louisianaand 
has bore her husband eight children: Lela May (a graduate of the Minden 
Female Seminary and is now in her second year in the Nashville College, 
Tenn.), David S., Edna Belle, Mary, Samuel, Grace and Burnice.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Mims are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he 
belongs to the Farmers' Union and the Masonic fraternity.