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The father's name was Elijah Mims according to the death record of son Elijah. This would suggest an Elijah who was born about 1840-45. There is no cemetery record on FindAGrave for such a person.

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The following Elijah is well accounted for and married Rebecca Robinson:

1850, Chestnut Twp, Autauga AL, Hh 783
Elijah Mims, 42 (living next door to James R. Mims, 35
John J., 19
Tabitha, 30
Mary, 15
Mahala, 13
Elijah, 11

By 1860, this Elijah who was 11 in 1850, seems to be living still in Autauga Co but married to a Rebecca:
Hh 232 - Elijah Mimes, 21. Rebecca 19. James 3, Delila, age 7 months.

1860 Census. Chestnut Creek, Autauga, AL, Hh 232
Elijah Mimes, 21. Rebecca, 19
James 3. Delila, age 7 months.


From Ancestry Tree:
The Alabama Department of Archives and contemporary historians have listed the following subjects as farmers who enlisted as Privates in Company E of the 44th Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States of America (CSA) which was comprised of men primarily from Shelby County, Alabama.
Elijah Mims
George W. Mims
Henry Mims
James Mimes
William Mims
One unsourced internet website showed a list of Company E soldiers and noted as its source for the Mims info a subject by the name of “Boyd” which may be contemporary historian Charles E. Boyd. This was the list that noted that all five men were missing from the unit by May 5, 1862 with no further details listed. One official muster roll revealed that George W. Mims had enlisted on March 24, 1862 while the 44th Regiment was still being formed, (it did not become a formal CSA Regiment until April 1862) and another muster roll noted that he was trained at a “Camp of Instruction” beginning on April 4, 1862. It is likely that all five Mims had enlisted sometime in March and received their initial training in early April before the regiment was formed.

Elijah Mims Jr. reappears has having Enlisted in Company K, 15th Regiment, Alabama Infantry on 15 Aug 1862. He mustered out on May 26, 1863 at Raccoon Ford, VA and died in 1866. William Mims is another son of Elijah Mims Sr. and a brother to George Washington Mims.

Civil War Muster Roll
Elijah Mims - Eufaula City - his residence listed as Ozark, AL, married.
Elijah Mims, age 25, enlisted on 15 Aug 1862, Company K, 15th AL Infantry, as a private, Dale Co, AL. This unit was mustered out 26 May 1863 at Raccoon Ford, VA
However, a John J. Mims, also enlisted in Dale Co in Co G, 37th AL Infantry.

Birth	1839	Alabama
Marriage	16 Oct 1856	Autauga County, Alabama - Rebecca A. Robinson
Marriage	13 Aug 1865	Autauga County, Alabama - Mary Elizabeth Easterling
Death	5 Aug 1866	Chilton County, Alabama

Spouse	Rebecca A. Robinson (1840 - )
Child	James Payton Mims (1857 - 1926)
Child	Delilah Mims (1859 - 1940)

Spouse	Mary Elizabeth Easterling (1844 - 1923)
Child	Elijah H. Mims (1866 - 1948)

Father	Elijah Mims (1808 - 1887)
Mother	Mahala Popwell (1810 - 1841)
Sibling	George Washington "Dock" Mims (1827 - 1903)
Sibling	Martha Jane Mims (1828 - 1899)
Sibling	John Jackson Mims (1831 - )
Sibling	William E. Mims (1832 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Mims (1834 - 1900)
Sibling	Mary Mims (1835 - 1859)
Sibling	Mahala Mims (1837 - 1926)