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Descendants of Robert Mill

4. WILLIAM³ MILLS (ROBERT² MILL, ROBERT¹ MILNE)²⁹ was born 8 May 1843 in Wood County, Ohio, and died 16 June 1915 in Vancouver, Washington ³⁰. He married ANN ELIZA CLARK WILSON 17 November 1865 in Vancouver, Washington, daughter of DANIEL WILSON and ROSANNA MOUL. She was born 13 July 1849 in Illinois, and died 30 January 1880 in Pacific County, Washington.

Notes for WILLIAM MILLS:

William Mills was the youngest son of Robert Mill and Margaret McGregor who were from Scotland. William Mills was born in Wood County, Ohio. His father and older brother, John Mill, were already in Oregon when he made the journey to join them in 1857. He traveled from Ohio with his older sister, Mary Jane Mills, to Oregon via the Isthmus of Panama and on the ship Golden Gate.
From about 1857 to 1867, William probably lived in on his father's large farm in Clackamas County on Rock Creek near Damascus, Oregon. It was here probably that William met his future wife, Ann Eliza Wilson. Ann Eliza was a sister of William C. Wilson. William Mills' sister, Mary Jane Mills, was married to this same William C. Wilson. William C. Wilson, John Mill and Robert Mill all had adjoining farms in Clackmas County, Oregon.

The following was taken from the Pacific County Edition of the South Bend Journal dated 1900:

William Mills of Bay Center, one of the pioneers of the oyster business on Willapa Bay, and the leading merchant in Bay Center, was born in Wood county, Ohio, in the year 1843. When he was fourteen years of age his parents removed to Oregon, coming by way of Panama and setting in Clackamas county, where worked on a farm for nearly ten years, married and departed for western Washington, reaching Pacific county in September 1867 and Iocating on the Palix river, where he took up a ranch. In that region at that time there was little else but ducks, oysters and Indians that lived, breathed and had their being.
The possibilities of this region were not unknown, but that he would ever live to see the resources developed was problematical. Naturally, however, having come here for that purpose, he set about in a small way to develop them himself. He farmed for some time and oystered some, devoting whatever spare time he had to keeping peace with the wary Indian, of whom there were some three hundred in his immediate vicinity. Finally he dropped the farm and confined his efforts to oystering and merchandising and has followed this joint enterprise for twenty-five years. He is now enjoying the fruition of his labors, owning large and profitable oyster beds and a prosperous mercantile business. When he had gotten fairly started in the oyster business he began shipping to California about 1200 baskets of the bivalves annually, and from that the annual shipments gradually grew to 3000 baskets and upwards. Up until the first of August this year he shipped 2100 baskets. Mr. Mills store at Bay Center is one of the best kept, most largely patronized and prosperous merchandising establishments in the county. For quarter of a century it has stood as a monument to the integrity, thrift and industry of its Pioneer proprietor. Personally Mr. Mills is much esteemed as an upright man, an enterprising citizen, a good neighbor and a firm friend.

Sometime after 1902, William Mills moved to and lived the remainder of his life in Portland, Oregon. He was a member of The Oregon Pioneers Association. William died at St. Josephs hospital in Vancouver, Washington, while visiting his daughter, Bertha Crandall. His estate was valued at $12, 000. He was buried in the old Pioneer Cemetery , alongside his wife, Anelisa, in Bay Center, Washington.

Children of WILLIAM MILLS and ANN WILSON are:

14.	i.	ADA FRANCESS⁴ MILLS, b. Abt. 1867, Oregon.
15.	ii.	BERTHA L. MILLS, b. 20 January 1869, Bay Center, Washington; d. 8 August 1960, Montgomery, Alabama.
16.	iii.	ROY WILSON MILLS, b. Abt. 1871, Bay Center, Washington; d. 1946, Woodland, Washington.
	iv.	DANIEL ROBERT MILLS, b. 23 July 1873, Bay Center, Washington; d. 11 January 1892, Bay Center, Washington.
	v.	MAY ELLA MILLS, b. Abt. 1875; d. Aft. 1960, Seattle, Washington.

Notes for MAY ELLA MILLS:
May was also known as Ella Mills. She was living at 348 Mill Street, Portland, Oregon in 1915.

17.	vi.		ROSE JUNE MILLS, b. 19 June 1877, Bay Center, Washington; d. 13 August 1970, Bay Center, Washington.
18.	vii.		LLOYD ROLAND MILLS, b. Abt. 1879, Bay Center, Washington; d. Aft. 1964, Portland, Oregon.

5. GEORGE³ MELL (ROBERT² MILL, ROBERT¹ MILNE) was born 29 December 1852 in Wood County, Ohio, and died 4 April 1927 in Carleton, Michigan. He married SARAH JANE HELM 15 November 1877, daughter of LIVI HELM and LOVINA LONG. She was born 17 June 1862, and died 10 September 1917 in Carlton, Michigan.

Notes for GEORGE MELL:

George's mother changed the spelling of the last name, then she gave him to a minister
to raise, we don't know the name of the family that raised him.

The following is a human interest article about a Mill family reunion. It was copied from the September 11, 1902 South Bend Journal.

AFTER FIFTY ONE YEARS South Bend Journal,
South Bend, WA
SBJ 9/11/03

Last week the Journal printed an extract from a San Diego paper describing the meeting of Col. Robt. Stewart with his brother in San Diego whom he had not seen for thirty years. It was a remarkable meeting but is thrown completely in the shade by the meeting of Wm. Mills, the Bay Center merchant and oysterman, and his half brother Geo. Mills whom he had not seen for fifty one years and had lost track of. Mr.Geo. Mills is now a prosperous dairyman in Norton Kansas and is in the west to look up his long lost relatives. The story is an interesting one. It appears that the father of Wm. Mills and his stepmother, who was the mother of Geo. Mills. separated fifty one years ago a short time before George was born. They then lived in Wood Co., Ohio. The father took his three children by his first wife with him and; placing William and his sister with friends, crossed the plains with his oldest son John who is now a big wheat farmer near Spokane. This was in 1852 and in 1857 William and his sister joined their father in Milwaukee, Ore. William remembers seeing his half brother George as a babe in swaddling clothes but in later years they lost all track of each other. The former came to Pacific County 36 years ago and has lived here ever since having acquired considerable property and being now one of the solid citizens of the county. Geo. Mills has resided an even longer period in Norton Kan. having been there 40 years.
He is now 51 years old and William is 60. For fifteen years the former has been hunting for his lost relatives and it is only within a few months that he has found them. What added to the difficulty was that he had been spelling his name Mell while his half brother John and sister spell it Mill and William added a final s. The original name was probably the Scotch name Miln. George finally got trace of a half sister in Roseburg Ore. by advertising in a Roseburg paper and soon thereafter picked up the long lost threads of relationship. He left Kansas last July and has been visiting in Oregon arriving here Friday night and the meeting between the brothers took place Saturday in the city. There is a strong family resemblance between them.

OBITUARY OF GEORGE MILL
George Mell was born near Portage,Wood, County, Ohio, Dec 23, 1851 He. was united in marriage in 1877 to Sarah Jane Helm. To this union were born seven children.
In 1893 Mr. Mell with his family moved to Norton, Kansas, there for eleven years. He then went with his family to Missouri for short time before returning to Ohio, and going to Perrysburg to reside. After two years at Perrysburg he bought a farm near Carleton, Michigan, where he, once more moved his family. From that time until his, death he made Carleton his home.
He had been in a state of slowly failing health for several years. After a short but severe attack of erysipelas, the end came April 4, 1927, the deceased being 75 years, 3 months 12 days of age.
Mr. Mell was preceded into death by his wife, Sarah Jane Helm Mell, and by one daughter, Alta Mell Freyman. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Alice Schauweker, of Bowlingreen, Ohio; five sons, Charles, of Carleton; Edward, of Norton, Kansas; Wallace, of Detroit; Clarence and Ralph, of El Paso, Texas; one daughter; Alice Mell Eckert, of MT. Vernon, O.; and by thirteen grand children, besides many other relatives and friends.

Children of GEORGE MELL and SARAH HELM are:

	i.		CHARLES ALVAH⁴ MILL, b. 1 September 1878, Cloverdale Corners, Wood County, Ohio; d. 19 April 1947, Carlton, Michigan; m. STELLA LUCY CLARK, 10 September 1910, Monroe, Michigan.
	ii.		EDWIN OLIVER MILL, b. 1 December 1880, Cloverdale Corners, Wood County, Ohio; d. 30 October 1935, Norton, Kansas; m. WINNIE CLELANA, 19 December 1906.
	iii.		ALTHA ALIDA MILL, b. 15 March 1883, Cloverdale Corners, Wood County, Ohio; d. 25 August 1926, Boling Green, Ohio; m. PERRY EMMIT FREYMAN, 1 May 1906, Portage, Ohio.
	iv.		CLARENCE GEORGE MILL, b. 23 December 1884, Cloverdale Corners, Wood County, Ohio; d. 26 January 1926; m. DELLA TRUMAN, 13 July 1907.
	v.		WALLACE ANDREW MILL, b. 9 September 1887, Cloverdale Corners, Wood County, Ohio; d. 1963; m. KATIE SCHAEFER, 7 March.
	vi.		RALPH WALDO MILL, b. 16 November 1889, Cloverdale Corners, Wood County, Ohio; d. 1973, El Paso, Texas.
	vii.		ALICE DAISY MILL, b. 2 May 1892, Cloverdale Corners, Wood County, Ohio; d. 3 June 1972, Portage County, Ohio; m. FLOYED HERBERT ECKERT, 11 October 1911.

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