When Alta Bernard Mills was born on 23 February 1892, in Martinstown, Putnam, Missouri, United States, her father, Neal Martin Mills, was 24 and her mother, Emma Frances Husted, was 20. She married Everett Clell Vaughn on 1 April 1909, in St. Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in College Springs, Page, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Amity Township, Page, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 26 July 1981, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in College Springs, Page, Iowa, 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’.
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