When Madison Henry Mills was born on 6 July 1833, in Mississippi, United States, his father, John D Mills, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Malone, was 34. He married Nancy Serene Reed on 10 January 1854, in Leake, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. He lived in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 4, Houston County, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 17 August 1901, in Pennington, Trinity, Texas, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Pennington Cemetery, Pennington, Trinity, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1836: Harrisburg, Republic of Texas 1839: Harris, Republic of Texas 1845: Harris, Texas, United States. [Spreads across Fort Bend, Harris, and Montgomery counties]
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
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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