Henry Willis Mills

Brief Life History of Henry Willis

When Henry Willis Mills was born on 3 September 1818, in Missouri, United States, his father, James Saunders Mills, was 24 and his mother, Drucilla Cannon, was 24. He married Cinthia C. Foster in 1838, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Marion, Alabama, United States in 1880. He died on 7 August 1887, in Hamilton, Marion, Alabama, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mills Family Cemetery, Marion, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Willis Mills
1818–1887
Cinthia C. Foster
1821–1893
Marriage: 1838
Drusilla Jane Mills
1840–1914
William James Mills
1842–1917
Cynthia A. Mills
1843–
Benjamin Stonewall Mills
1847–1925
Henry Thomas Mills
1850–1929
Abraham Franklin Mills
1852–1935
Eli Foster Mills
1855–1946
Captaine B. Mills
1864–
John Calvin Mills
1864–1958

Sources (21)

  • Henry W. Mills, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: henry w. mills - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: henry w. mills
  • Henry Willis Mills, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1819 · Alabama Becomes a State

Alabama became the twenty-second state admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .

English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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