James Marion Sims, MD, GYN - James Marion Sims - Family Connections

From 1850 on, the US Census is also a valuable tool (allowing for occasional dyslexic census-takers, etc -also allowing for the near-total loss of the 1890 Census, oopsie!).

Some of the collateral connections are also quite interesting, e. g. the Gregorys. Fannie Marion Sims was Charles Edward Gregory's second wife (first wife seems to have died shockingly young and I have yet to find any children for her) - and he was the son of the first governor of Jersey City, NJ and one of fourteen(!) children.

Somebody might want to work the Mackey line a bit and find out who Mahala Mackey Sims' eight older brothers and sisters were. Looks like there was another Mackey-Sims marriage a generation or so later.

I am intensely interested in the Mackey connection & already raised up Judi MCKEE on it. She has a good Geni tree of another (drum roll) Mackey family in (drumroll) Lancaster SC - and Charles doesn't fit in it. So perhaps it's a Scotland connect - I saw that Charles & Lydia Isom may have arrived about 1740.

Than for the reminder Mahala (youngest) is missing her siblings.

Looks like a whole nest of Mackeys came over circa 1740!

Charles Mackey is said in more than one source to have been born in America, possibly the first child in his family to be born "here".

The main source seems to be

http://www.worldcat.org/title/mackeys-variously-spelled-and-allied-...

Hathitrust view here

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89061966214;view=1up;seq=9...

Judi McKee already combed for "named children" of Charles & Lydia.

I could swear I've seen Mackey (variously spelled) in the McElwain tree.

Charles Mackey

8th great grandmother Martha Mickey could be why it seemed so familiar :):)

Martha McIlvaine

But of course I have no reason to think this is the same M'ghee's

Now who I'm really looking for is Andrew McIlwain of Lancaster District SC, father of Mary A. Perry

http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/lancaster/S10817729028/

And I'm trying "variously" spelled McIlwains on Geni & striking out. ? ? ?

I think we're missing more notable descendants!

From http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sclancas/records/bios/bio_drsims.htm On April 25, 1950, a historical marker was dedicated near Heath Springs in Lancaster County ... Besides the D.A.R. sponsors, there was a sizable crowd who wished to pay their respects to this remarkable man. ...

.... Also present were four descendants of Sims--Marion Sims Wyeth, Sr., architect of Palm Springs, Florida; Marion Sims Wyeth, Jr., the Macmillan Company, New York; Dr. Alice Gregory, New York City physician, and Miss Jane Marion McLean of New York City.