When Samuel Richard Mills was born on 12 November 1915, in Columbia, Wayne, Indiana, United States, his father, Allen Mills, was 38 and his mother, Lena Grimes, was 28. He married Bernice Anna Johnson on 19 December 1937. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Orange, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 9 February 2009, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Calumet Park Cemetery, Merrillville, Lake, Indiana, United States.