Sarah D. Mims
Sarah D. Mims was born in October 1839 at Burnt Corn in Conecuh County, Alabama. Family accounts name her parents as Henry Mims, born in North Carolina about 1810, and Caroline Grace, born in Monroe County in 1818.
Her father died when she was a child. According to a family history of her mother, Henry Mims took the family to Texas, where a son, Thomas, was born about 1846, and Henry died in Gonzales County, Texas, in 1847. By 1850 Caroline and her children were back on the family farm in Conecuh County, with an overseer named John Butler, whom Caroline afterwards married. A half-sister, Josephine Butler, was born in 1856. After John Butler died during the Civil War, Caroline married the widower Nathan Hendrix in 1867 and moved with him to Escambia County, Florida. When he died in 1881 she came back to the Evergreen area to live near Sarah, and she died there in October 1899.
Her younger brother Thomas Mims was born in Texas about 1846, the year before their father died there. Her mother's family history says Thomas died in 1862, during the Civil War, in Wisconsin. The only place a Confederate soldier could die in Wisconsin that year was Camp Randall, the Union army camp at Madison. In April 1862 Union forces captured the Confederate garrison of Island No. 10, a fortified island in the Mississippi River near New Madrid, Missouri. About 1,200 of the prisoners were sent up the river to Camp Randall, most of them men of the 1st Alabama Infantry. A Private Thomas Mimms of Company D, 1st Alabama, died there on 6 May 1862. He is buried in grave 42 of Confederate Rest, the plot in Forest Hill Cemetery at Madison where the prisoners who died at the camp lie. If he is Sarah's brother, he was about sixteen.
On 24 February 1856, at sixteen, Sarah married James Madison Piggott in Monroe County. Over the next twenty-three years she bore at least ten children. In 1870 she was 33, written Sarah S. V. Piggott, in the household at Fork of Sepulga in Conecuh County with Nancy C., Mary E., Georgia E., Thomas N., Amanda, Monnie M., Edney and the baby James, born that March. Hettie followed in 1879, and there was also a daughter Helen. The death certificates of James Henry, Minnie, Hettie and Helen all name their mother as Sarah Mims or Mimms.
James died in January 1901. Sarah died at Garland, Butler County, on 31 July 1911, aged 71, and was buried the next day, 1 August, in the Piggotte Cemetery beside him.
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Cite: Heirology, "Sarah D. Mims (1839-1911)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/sarah-d-mims-1839-1911-b9d7fc.