Mills
Family Genealogy
Read various family bacgrounds: Backgrounds on some of the families you will find in this site.
Pictured clockwise beginning at the top: Frank Clayton Mills (my Great-grandfather), John Henry Mills (my Great-Great-Great-grandfather), Bernard Clayton Mills (my Great-uncle) & Henry Clayton Mills (my Great-Great-grandfather). |
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He had then returned to his wife and children in Kentucky, and had suddenly died before completing his prep- arations for removal to Illinois. His household thus sadly bereft of its head, courageously set forth the following October for the wilderness, where he had designed to build up a habitation for his loved ones. The mother and children settled on the land that he had taken up, and there she died in 1875 at the venerable age of ninety years. She reared nine children to good and useful lives.
Portrait and Biographical Album, page 722
You may find that your family is larger than you think!
1. Benjamin D. (Bently) Mills. m. Susan Ann Hall
2. Margaret J. Mills m. Robert F. Barnett
3. Paschal H. Mills m. Emily (Temple?) Hickman
4. William Andrew Mills m. Artemicia Curl
5. Thomas Jefferson Mills m. Elizabeth Farris
6. Rufus Mills (never married)
7. Nancy Ann Mills m. Fleming G. Paine
8. George Washington Mills m. Abigail Ely
9. John Henry Mills m1. Ruth Sprauge; m2. Talitha Parker Cushman