Eula Mims Mays was the oldest daughter of Henry Mims born in Alabama, and Eliza Patterson born in Alabama. She was born in Macon Alabama. Her father a civil war veteran, died when she was about two or three years old. Her younger sister Mary Lou Mims was two years younger than she. Her mother, a widow, Eliza Patterson Mims remarried Willis Todd in Macon Alabama in 1870 and the family came to Bell County, Texas in the late 1870s. Several half sisters and brothers were born to the new family. Eula married Enoch Grigsby Mays Jr in 1885 in Bell County. Her step-father and mother moved to Iredell in Bosque County. Enoch died in 1898, and Eula with the four minor children moved to Hico in Hamilton County near her mother and step-father and worked as a dressmaker. The youngest son Luther died before 1910 and the other son Arthur was committed to the Texas State Insane Asylum by his mother in 1905. He spend his life in the asylum and died in 1970. She had two other children, Myrtle Mays Baker who died in a car accident in 1935 in Lamar Colorado and Ruth H. Mays who died in 1959 in Ft. Worth, Texas. By 1910 Eula moved to Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas and ran a boarding house in the downtown area at 214 North Caddo Street. Between 1910 and 1920 she continued to run the boarding house, and also operated a show house in Cleburne until 1921 when she moved to Ft. Worth, Texas and bought a house on Lipscomb Street. She rented out part of the house until she died in Ft. Worth in 1942. She was active in the Methodist Church in downtown Ft. Worth. She never remarried.
Eula Mims Mays was the oldest daughter of Henry Mims born in Alabama, and Eliza Patterson born in Alabama. She was born in Macon Alabama. Her father a civil war veteran, died when she was about two or three years old. Her younger sister Mary Lou Mims was two years younger than she. Her mother, a widow, Eliza Patterson Mims remarried Willis Todd in Macon Alabama in 1870 and the family came to Bell County, Texas in the late 1870s. Several half sisters and brothers were born to the new family. Eula married Enoch Grigsby Mays Jr in 1885 in Bell County. Her step-father and mother moved to Iredell in Bosque County. Enoch died in 1898, and Eula with the four minor children moved to Hico in Hamilton County near her mother and step-father and worked as a dressmaker. The youngest son Luther died before 1910 and the other son Arthur was committed to the Texas State Insane Asylum by his mother in 1905. He spend his life in the asylum and died in 1970. She had two other children, Myrtle Mays Baker who died in a car accident in 1935 in Lamar Colorado and Ruth H. Mays who died in 1959 in Ft. Worth, Texas. By 1910 Eula moved to Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas and ran a boarding house in the downtown area at 214 North Caddo Street. Between 1910 and 1920 she continued to run the boarding house, and also operated a show house in Cleburne until 1921 when she moved to Ft. Worth, Texas and bought a house on Lipscomb Street. She rented out part of the house until she died in Ft. Worth in 1942. She was active in the Methodist Church in downtown Ft. Worth. She never remarried.
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