Brief Life History of Effa E
When Effa E Mills was born on 24 March 1868, in Grant, Indiana, United States, her father, William W. Mills, was 39 and her mother, Margaret Holloway, was 39. She married Robert Austin Gilpin on 16 June 1904, in Charleston, Coles, Illinois, United States. She lived in Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Neoga, Cumberland, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 23 January 1950, at the age of 81, and was buried in Neoga Cemetery, Neoga, Cumberland, Illinois, United States.
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- Effa Gilpin in household of Austin Gilpin, "United States Census, 1930"
- Effa Mills, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Effie E. Mills Gilpin, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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