Brief Life History of Robert Lee
When Robert Lee Mills Sr was born on 5 December 1870, in Arnaudville, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States, his father, John Chapman Mills, was 44 and his mother, Marie Elvina Burleigh, was 34. He married Evelina Richard on 3 November 1891, in Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Ward One, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States for about 20 years and Louisiana, United States in 1953. He died on 24 July 1953, in Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Saint Landry Cemetery, Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States.
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- R Lee Mills, "United States Census, 1940"
- Robert Lee Mills, "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Robert Lee Mills, "Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956"
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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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