Brief Life History of Elvira Pamela
When Elvira Pamela Mills was born on 2 March 1820, in Nelson, Portage, Ohio, United States, her father, Robert Fredrerick Mills, was 27 and her mother, Rhoda Hulet, was 24. She married Orville Sutherland Cox on 3 October 1839, in Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 18 February 1903, in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Fairview Pioneer Cemetery, Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Elvina Cox, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elvira Pamela Mills - Family genealogies: birth-name: Elvira Pamela Mills
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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