Moses Mills

Brief Life History of Moses

When Moses Mills was born in 1840, in Union, North Carolina, United States, his father, Morgan J Mills, was 40 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Cotton, was 39. He died in North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Morgan J Mills
1800–1880
Jane Elizabeth Cotton
1801–1875
James Albert Mills Sr
1825–1891
Mary Jane Mills
1828–
Sarah Mills
1832–
Spofford Franklin Mills
1839–1880
Thomas Mills
1829–
Moses Mills
1840–
Elizabeth Caroline Maple
1842–1907
E L Mills
1842–
Jane Mills
1844–
Jarusha Mills
1846–

Sources (1)

  • Moses J Mills in household of M J Mills, "United States Census, 1860"

World Events (3)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1853 · First State Fair

The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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