When William M Mills was born on 13 February 1864, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, his father, James Milton Mills, was 49 and his mother, Unity Hughes, was 42. He married Louise Angeline Vaughn on 23 March 1883, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Election Precinct 9 Hughes, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States for about 30 years. In 1880, at the age of 16, his occupation is listed as farm laborer in Election Precinct 9 Hughes, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. He died on 18 December 1912, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Coker, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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