Enterprise-Journal from McComb, Mississippi • Page D002

D2 FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2006 PERSPECTIVE 2006 ENTERPRISE-JOURNAL, McCOMB, MISSISSIPPI www.enterprise-journal.com BY MATT WILLIAMSON ENTERPRISE-JOURNAL he phone rings at Sam house on a Sunday, and after briefly talking to the caller, Mims discovers that although the call is for Sam Mims, not for him. nothing unusual about this. It happens all the time to Sam C. Mims IV, city administrator, and his son, state Rep. Sam C.

Mims R-McComb. gotten several phone calls that were Sam said. you first got elected, people came into my office talking about state matters thinking I had gotten Sam IV told his son as they met for a lunch break in January. was kind of ofus say ifwe can help we Sam IV said. When someone refers to the Mimses, they have to be specific, and say something along the lines of, are you talking about the state representative or the city The Mimses are just one of many families who carry on the tradition ofpreserving the name the first, middle and last.

The Sam Mimses are up to six now, and the youngest just turned 1. There has been a Sam C. Mims since 1848, when the first was born in north Mississippi. The Mimses know little about their namesake, other than the fact that he was born in Chulahoma in Marshall County, died in 1940 and was married to Jessie Thompson. They suspect that he made a living by farming.

sure a lot offolks back then were Sam said. Sam the legislator a self-described political junkie and die-hard Republican, said he learned about a year after he was elected that his great-grandfather, Sam C. Mims also served in the Mississippi Legislature. He was a senator and (gasp) a Democrat, which Mims quickly points out was the only political party in the state at the time and was, like GOP, conservative by nature. When Sam IV and his wife Betty Sue were expecting a son, it was obvious what his name would be.

think we ever really kicked it around a little he said. was just one ofthose unusual things that took That, too, was the case for Sam and his wife Amy. Sam C. Mims IV, left, makes a funny face to amuse his grandson, Sam C. Mims VI, right, as Sam C.

Mims looks on. MATT WILLIAMSON ENTERPRISE-JOURNAL all in the name Families carry on tradition, preserve titles you first got elected, people came into my office talking about state matters thinking I had gotten Sam C. Mims IV About his son, state Rep. Sam C. Mims R-McComb SEE NAME, PAGE D3 Are you concerned about the quality of your drinking water? HOLLYWOOD ENTERPRISES, LLC ARTESIAN WATER OFMcCOMB Water Outlet Sales Office 218 C.

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