When William R Mills was born on 9 May 1830, in Gibson, Indiana, United States, his father, Daniel L Mills, was 29 and his mother, Hannah Chapman, was 24. He lived in Washington Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States in 1860. He died on 27 August 1866, in Princeton, Patoka Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Princeton, Patoka Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States.
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’.
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