Sims-Mitchell House
Historical Details

William E. Sims in his uniform as Sergeant Major, 21st Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, 1864.

Whittle/Sims Family 1875-1901

Father Knows Best

James M. Whittle

• First Whittle Home: The Columns
• Second Whittle Home: Eldon
• His Brothers:
  • Bishop Francis M. Whittle
  • Lewis Neale Whittle
  • Lt. Col. Powhatan B. Whittle, C. S. A.
    • Wartime letter from Powhatan to James
  • Capt. W. C. Whittle, C. S. N.
• His Uncle Conway Whittle of Ireland
• His Grandfather Col. William Davies

Daddy's Little Girl

Matoaka Whittle Sims

The Son-in-Law From Mississippi

William E. Sims

• Birthplace: Woodville, Mississippi
• His Family:
  • Father: John Hampton Sims, Sr.
  • Brother: Lt. Col. John Hampton Sims, Jr., C. S. A.
  • Brother: Capt. Robert Gill Sims, C. S. A.
• Graduate of Yale
• His Confederate Military Records
  • Cousin Jesse Sims' Report from Battle of Cedar Creek
• W. E. Sims' Yale Obituary
• W. E. Sims' Woodville Republican Obituary

The Sims Boys

Sons of William and Matoaka Sims:

• James Whittle Sims
• John Hampton Sims

The Sims House in 1906, as the main building of Chatham Episcopal Institute (see article).

Later Years 1901 – Present

• After the Sims Family: 1901–1975
• Warren Training School 1908–1909
• E. L. Ingram Family 1918
• Logue and Adkins Family 1951–1961
• Mitchell Restoration 1975 – Present
• The Rock that Turned the Tide, 1985

Copyright © 1999–2009 Patricia B. Mitchell.