Rebecca Mills was born on 11 April 1802, in Kentucky, United States as the daughter of Moses Mills. She married James Payne Franklin on 1 February 1825, in Spencer, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Turman Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Charleston, Coles, Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 28 September 1875, in Livonia, Putnam, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73.
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Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The state capital was moved from Corydon to Indianapolis on January 10, 1825.
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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