SUBLIME AREA, LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS
This small family cemetery has eight markers and some small crosses on unmarked graves. The oldest marker is for Ziltha Hinsley Mims, who died 22 January 1858. To get to the cemetery go west from Sublime on 90A and cross the Navidad River. Take the first road to the left, CR 132, and the cemetery is on the left about a mile.
Though the cemetery is very old, there are two recent burials. The latest was Eva. L. Whitley in 1999. A memorial marker was placed fairly recently with the inscription, "William Mims, Zilpha Hinsley Mims, "GTT" 1841, (On the Headwaters of the Lavaca and the Navidad, Boethel, 1967, pp. 30-40), JB, WO, SIP".v
When Tise surveyed the cemetery in 1980 there were small crosses on fourteen otherwise unmarked graves. Johnnie Boysen of Cuero provided information to Tise on ten people buried in unmarked graves for inclusion in his sixth volume of Lavaca County, Texas Cemetery Records. While at the time Carolyn Grace Mims, 1820-1849, wife of Henry Mims, was believed buried in the Judd Cemetery, it is now known that she had moved away to Mobile, Alabama and was buried in that vicinity. More information can be found in the second printing, copyrighted 2003, of William M. Mims, Texas Ranger and his Clan by Shirley Insall Pieratt and Johnnie L. Boysen
The cemetery was photographed in January 2009 by June Draper.
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BIRTH
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DEATH
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Davidson, Mahala Mims
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25 Nov 1822
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1860 or 1862?
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Unmarked grave; born in Alabama
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Judd, Francis M.
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5 Jul 1863
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9 Jan 1884
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"Aged 20 y's. 6 m's. 4 d's."
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Judd, Henry K.
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20 Mar 1821
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20 Feb 1889
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"Born in Milton Mobra, England"; "Aged 68 yrs. 11 mos."
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Judd, Henry R.
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8 Mar 1878
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"Son of H. R. and Ella Judd"; "Aged 3 Days"
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Judd, Joseph R.
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28 May 1880
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"Son of H. R. and Ella Judd"; "Aged 3 Mo's. & 5 D's."
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Judd, Lucy Jane
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4 Apr 1869
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10 Mar 1957
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"Gone, but not forgotten"
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Judd, Margaret Jane Mims
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22 Apr 1828
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19 Feb 1918
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Unmarked grave beside her husband, Henry K. Judd
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Mims, D. C.
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1841
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1849
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Unmarked grave; son of Henry and Caroline Grace Mims; born in Alabama; possibly named David Cullen
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Mims, Elizabeth
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1837
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1849
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Unmarked grave; daughter of Henry and Caroline Grace Mims; born in Alabama
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Mims, Henry
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1810
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1847
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Unmarked grave; born in North Carolina
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Mims, Sarah (Louisica)
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15 Feb 1840
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1849
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Unmarked grave; daughter of Henry and Caroline Grace Mims; born in Alabama
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Mims, Zilpha Hinsley
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22 Oct 1800
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22 Jan 1858
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Wife of William M. Mims; born in North Carolina; marker broken in half
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Unknown Mexican boy
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Unmarked grave
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Warburton, John
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1882
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Funeral home marker only
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Warburton
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Unmarked; unknown first name and dates
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Whitley, Charles R. (Buddy)
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30 Apr 1914
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22 Mar 1979
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"Daddy"
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Whitley, Eva L.
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4 Oct 1916
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2 Jul 1999
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"Mama"; wife of Charles R. Whitley; "Married Apr. 6, 1936"
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Please contact the Lavaca County TXGenWeb coordinator if you can provide information about any of the unmarked graves.
