Mahala Sims

Youngest of nine children, per various sources. Redheaded.

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Sims,J.Marion.html

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"My mother Mahala Mackey was the daughter of Charles and Lydia Mackey of Scotch Irish origin. The family came to America about 1740." -James Marion Sims

"Charles and Lydia Mackey had nine children. My mother Mahala was the youngest. She was born on the 2nd of May, 1792 being about eighteen months younger than my father. She was a bright pretty girl with black eyes, fair skin, and red hair. I remember her as a handsome middle-sized woman with rich auburn hair. She was the best of wives, the best of mothers, and the most untiring worker I ever knew. She was indeed a helpmate for her husband. She spun and wove the cloth and cut and made the clothes commonly used at home, and did all her own housework in her early life." -James Marion Sims

From The Story of My Life By James Marion Sims - introduction page 24

"His head was rather below than above the average size, and its unusual height in proportion to its circumference pointed to his Gaelic origin, for, through his mother, the blood of the MacGregors of McAlpin coursed fullproof in the veins of their descendant. His tout ensemble suggested, in all respects, Sir John Bell's ideal of the qualities necessary in a truly great surgeon— "The brain of an Apollo, the heart of a lion, the eye of an eagle, and the hand of a woman."

"My mother had died two months before this, in October, 1832. As before related, my father was left with a large family of children. I was the eldest, and there were five boys and two girls—little children without a mother."

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