Ellen Mills

Brief Life History of Ellen

When Ellen Mills was born on 15 December 1872, in Pennington, Trinity, Texas, United States, her father, Madison Henry Mills, was 39 and her mother, Nancy Serene Reed, was 35. She had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Alfred Brown Thornton. She lived in Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1935 and Supervisorial District 1, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940. She died on 8 July 1954, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alfred Brown Thornton
1875–1938
Ellen Mills
1872–1954
Ira Thornton
1899–1967
Madison Tullos Thornton
1901–1986
Otho Mills Thornton
1904–1966
Julia Leona Thornton
1909–1974
W. A. Thornton
1911–1991
Hazel Thornton
1914–1993

Sources (10)

  • Ellen Thornton, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Ellen Mills, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
  • Ellen V. Thornton in entry for Alfred Brown Thornton, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1879

Historical Boundaries 1879: Pinal, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Pinal, Arizona, United States

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

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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