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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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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