Brief Life History of Henry L
When Henry L Mills was born on 22 May 1817, in Economy, Perry Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States, his father, Seth Mills, was 34 and his mother, Charity Thornburgh, was 27. He married Sarah Ramey about 1830, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. He died in 1850, in Dade, Missouri, United States, at the age of 33.
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- Henry Mills, "Find A Grave Index"
- Henry Mills in entry for Christina Bowles, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Henry Mills in entry for Seth P Mills, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Wayne, Indiana, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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