When Bessie Taylor Mills was born on 14 April 1912, in Newfoundland, Canada, her father, Joshua Mills, was 48 and her mother, Sarah Chippett, was 40. She married Warrick Horwood in 1926, in Newfoundland, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Western Head, Newfoundland, Canada in 1945. She died on 11 October 1976, in Newfoundland, Canada, at the age of 64.