Brief Life History of Archimedes
When Archimedes Mills was born on 9 October 1850, in Cabell, West Virginia, United States, his father, Pvt. Oliver Mills, was 23 and his mother, Mary J Fraley, was 19. He married Armilda Ferguson on 22 February 1872, in Wayne, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Harvey District, Mingo, West Virginia, United States in 1910 and Armilda, Wayne, West Virginia, United States in 1920. He died on 19 January 1919, in Wayne, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mills Cemetery, Wayne, Wayne, West Virginia, United States.
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- Arkimedise Mills in household of Ollie Mills, "United States Census, 1920"
- Archmedeas Mills, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Archedias Mills, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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