Robert H. MILLS

Birth:

25 Mar 1833

Blount, Tennessee

Death:

3 Mar 1901

Lion, Iowa

Burial:

Evergreen Cemetery, George, Lion, Iowa

Marriage:

16 Jun 1861

Bourbon, Kansas

Father:

Richard MILLS

Mother:

Delilah CROSS

Sources:

1850 Census Calumet,Pike,Missouri (Online Census Images @ Ancestry.com), pg 240
1860 Census Bourbon County,Kansas Territory (Online Census Images @ Ancestry.com), Image 477
1870 Federal Census Fletchall,Worth,Missouri (Online Census Images @ Ancestry.com), pg 385
Internet IGI, Mar 2009
1880 Federal Census Worth County, Missouri
1876 Federal Census Worth County, Missouri
U.S. Civil War Soldiers 1861-65
New.familysearch.org, Apr 2010

Notes:

The sources of his birth and death are somewhat unknown. The known
documentation is as follows:
1. The death certificate of Robert Leroy Mills states that his father's name was "Robt".
2. The 1910 Census of Robert Leroy Mills states that his father was born in Tennessee.
3. The Mills family Bible from Aunt Eva Sparks (who got it from Chester Mills), states that R.H. Mills was born on March 25th, 1833. Immediately after this is the birthdate of his wife, Elisabeth E. Mills (22 Apr 1839), Robert L. Mills, Grant Mills, Anna Mills, etc. The same family Bible states that R.H. Mills died on 3 Mar 1901.
Mrs. Betty Herrman, Kansas Genealogical Society, Inc., found the
following United States Census in 1865 in the Township of Marmaton, P.O.
Rockford, Bourbon County, Kansas:

Bourbon County, Kansas:
MILLS , Robert 32 M W Carpernter Tennessee
E.E. 26 F W Housewife Missouri
R.L. 3 M W Kansas
G.G. 4mo M W Kansas
HOFFINAN , Susan 16 F W Wisconsin?
I was able to obtain a copy of the marriage certificate. It reads:
State of Kansas)
County of Bourbon)
I do hereby certify that on the 16th day of June AD 1861 at the
house of C.S. Clark in the State and County above, Robert H. Mills and
Elisabeth E. Clark were by me joined together with their mutual consent in the
bonds of wedlock.
Witness my name this 25th day of June AD 1861
Horatio Rhowles
Justice of the Peace

Elizabeth Emily CLARK

Birth:

22 Apr 1839

Macon, Missouri

Death:

3 May 1910

Jasper, Missouri

Father:

Calvin Sylvester CLARK

Mother:

Nancy Ann CARTER

Sources:

1880 Federal Census Fletchall,Worth,Missouri (FHL#1,254,741), pg 389B
1840 Census Pettis,Macon,Missouri
1850 Census Macon County, Missouri
1860 Census Bourbon County, Kansas
1870 Census Fletchall, Bourbon County, Kansas
1900 Census Jackson Twp., Jasper, Missouri
Jasper County, Missouri Deaths, 1878-1910

Notes:

The sources of my information are as follows:
1. The death certificate of Robert Leroy Mills states that his mother was Elisabeth Clark.
2. The 1910 Census of Robert Leroy Mills states that his mother was born in Missouri.
3. The Mills family Bible (from Aunt Eva via Chester Mills) states that Elisabeth E. Mills was born 22 Apr 1839. Also, the family Bible (Aunt Eva's) refers to a Calvin S. Clark, who was born in January, 1808, in ____, Mass. This could be Elisabeth's father. The Bible states That Calvin Clark died 17 May 1881. On July 8, 1992, Mrs. Betty Herrman, Kansas Genealogical Society, Inc., P.O. Box 103, Dodge City, Kansas, 67801 wrote me a letter. She told me that "The Old Fort Genealogical Society of Southeast Kansas pubishes a quarterly which was not indexed in its earlier years, but we found a marriage record: Robert H. Mills & Elisabeth E. Clark were married in Bourbon Co 16 June 1861". Mrs. Herrman also found the 1860 Bourbon Co, Ks, Marmathon Post Office Census, which gave the following information:
CLARK, Calvin S. 50 M W Farmer Mass?
Alzonia (?) 26 F W Housewife Ohio
Elizabeth E. 21 F W Missouri
LeRoy 19 M W "
Juliett 15 F W "
Nancy A. 11 F W "
Malissa 6 F W "
Climona 4 F W "
Mrs. Hermann stated that she did not know hat tho think about the 26 year old housewife, Alzonia. She thought that Calvin's wife must have died and he needed someone to care for the children. She searched but could not find any
marriage records in Bourbon County. She stated that perhaps Clark's wife died before he moved to Kansas.

Children

Marriage

Robert Leroy MILLS

Birth:

25 Jan 1862

Fort Scott, Linn\Bourbon, Kansas

Death:

1 Apr 1928

North Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma

Cynthia A. MOORE

Marr:

12 Feb 1882

Worth, Missouri

Notes:

                       1. Was a christian minister. He baptized Opal Mills when she was a child.
    2. I have obtained a copy of his marriage certificate. He was married on February 7, 1882 to Scynthe A. Moore. The marriage was attended by the mother of Robert Leroy Mills, Elisabeth E. Mills, who gave her consent.
    3. I have a typed copy of the newspaper article that explains that Robert Leroy Mills was buried in the Miami cemetery.
    4. On June 25, 1992 I received a copy of his death certificate. His father was "Robt Mills" and his mother was "Elisabeth Clark". The death information was given by S.A. Mills. His occupation was that of a "Mill Man". The death certificate confirms the date of his birth as January 25, 1862.
    5. I performed his endowment on 7 Nov 1995. Per Aunt Eva and Grandma Mills (Opal E.), he wrote letters to his son, William Grant, after William Grant joined the Army.

    Sealing to spouse confirmed in IGI on 24 May 1995 (Batch #M515922;
    Dates 1881-1885; Source Call #1007136; Type - film; Extracted marriage
    record for Worth County, Missouri)

Grant G. MILLS

Birth:

30 Mar 1865

Kansas

Death:

Mrs. Grant MILLS

Marr:

Notes:

                       Birth information from the Mills Family Bible (Aunt Eva) and a hand-written copy of the 1870 Worth County census.  The middle initial "G" came from the 1865 Census explained under Robert H. Mills.  Birth information is confirmed from Aunt Eva Elsie Mills Sparks, who copied it from the Clark family bible.

Hannah E. MILLS

Birth:

30 Nov 1867

Kansas

Death:

13 Jul 1887

Thomas FOLKENS

Marr:

Abt 1890

Kansas

Notes:

                       Birth information from the Mills Family Bible (Aunt Eva) and a hand
    written
    copy of the 1870 census of Worth County.
    The death date is from Aunt Eva Elsie Mills Sparks, who copied it
    from the
    Clark Family Bible.

William Sheradan MILLS

Birth:

4 Sep 1869

Bourbon, Kansas

Death:

1931

Theresa E. HAGAN

Marr:

Abt 1901

of Sedgwick, Kansas

Notes:

                       The name was given to me by Opal E. Mills.  She stated that this was
    a brother
    of Robert Leroy Mills.  This information was confirmed in the Mills
    Family
    Bible (Aunt Eva) and in a hand-written copy of the 1870 Census in
    Worth County,
    Fletchall Township. The Census states that he was 10 months old in
    1870, which
    would put his birth year in 1869.

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Robert H. Mills - Elizabeth Emily Clark

Robert H. Mills was born at Blount, Tennessee 25 Mar 1833. His parents were Richard Mills and Delilah Cross.

He married Elizabeth Emily Clark 16 Jun 1861 at Bourbon, Kansas . Elizabeth Emily Clark was born at Macon, Missouri 22 Apr 1839 daughter of Calvin Sylvester Clark and Nancy Ann Carter .

They were the parents of 4 children:
Robert Leroy Mills born 25 Jan 1862.
Grant G. Mills born 30 Mar 1865.
Hannah E. Mills born 30 Nov 1867.
William Sheradan Mills born 4 Sep 1869.

Robert H. Mills died 3 Mar 1901 at Lion, Iowa .

Elizabeth Emily Clark died 3 May 1910 at Jasper, Missouri .