Family Tree Part 2: The Mills Line

1. Mark Mills, b. England
m. Mary Eligood, d. 1700

2. ?Edward Mills?, b. 1686, Sussex County, Delaware; d. 1751, Sussex County, Delaware
m. Agnes Moore, dau. of Thomas Moore and Elizabeth Getting
b. 1690, Sussex County, Delaware; d. 1751, Sussex County, Delaware

3. Luke Mills, b. June 20, 1713, Jamestown, Virginia; d. July 1764, lost at sea
m. Hannah Lang, dau. of John Lang and Grace Brookings
b. Aug 15, 1715, Portsmouth, NH; d. 1748, Portsmouth, NH

4. Eligood Mills, b. August 25, 1744, Portsmouth, NH; d. Jan 6, 1832, Waterboro, Maine
m. Mary Dyer, dau. of Thomas Dyer and Elizabeth Melcher
b. Aug 13, 1753, Biddeford, Maine;
d. March 13, 1774, Portsmouth, NH, due to comlications from childbirth
Note: Eligood Mills was an officer aboard the privateer "Grand Turk", an early settler of Waterboro, York Co. ME, and a farmer. He was also a member of the Congregational Church of Limerick, Limerick, York Co. ME. He served aboard the Grand Turk during the Revolutionary War, when he was taken prisoner at Halifax, and held for 5 years (1777-1782).

5. Joseph Mills, b. October 18, 1771, Biddeford, Maine; d. April 1, 1836, Biddeford, Maine
m. Sarah L. Goodwin, dau. of Amaziah Goodwin and Sarah Butler
b. July 22, 1782, Limington, Maine; d. Nov. 18, 1828, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Note: Joseph was a farmer in Cape Elizabeth and Waterboro.

6. George Vaughan Mills, b. Nov 22, 1812, Cape Elizabeth, Maine; d. April 1, 1894
m. Dorothy Farnham, dau. of Gersham Farnham and Eleanor Varnum
b. Oct 9, 1816, Brooksville, Maine; d. March 1, 1855, Brooksville, Maine
Note: George Vaughn Mills' mother was a Quaker and he was brought up in that strict, reserved, almost silent faith. He loved a good joke and had a very hearty laugh. When his young wife died he was left with seven children, the oldest, Alice, sixteen years old. For two years he and Alice managed as well as they could to run the farm and acre for the children. Then he married the young womanwhom his first wife had told him she felt sure would be a good mother to the children. George, still a young man, became active in the affairs of the town - first as justice of the peace whereby he tried all cases which made necessary the holding of the court. Later, the people of his county selected him to represent them in the state legislature at Augusta. This he did with honor to his county and to himself. He loved peace and hated war more intensely than most people - due, probably, to his Quaker training. However, if there seemed sufficient reason for differing, he could do so in no uncertain terms. He stood for the finest and best in everything. His morning prayers were a regular institution in the home.

7. Albert Reed Mills, b. March 25, 1853; d. March 4, 1942
m. Sarah Frank Douglass, dau. of Joseph Douglass and Sarah L. Wasson
b. Feb 1, 1853; d. 1906
Note: Albert Reed Mills was the lighthouse keeper for the Goose Rock Lighthouse located in the Fox Island Thoroughfare between North Haven and Vinalhaven off the coast of Maine for 23 years. He got done 2 years before he would have been eligible for a pension, due to poor health. He claimed that the whole time he lived on Goose Rock, which had just room for the lighthouse, with no land at all, he raised his own vegetables. This is true if you consider the fact that all food and other supplies had to be raised out of a boat and up into the lighthouse. After his retirement, he moved in with his son Percy and daughter-in-law Evelyn in Prospect, Maine, where he worked in Percy's store at the Ferry Landing.

8. Percy Atwood Mills, b. Jan. 23, 1882, West Brooksville, Maine;
d. September 25, 1951, Bangor, Maine
m. Evelyn Roberts Avery, dau. of Byron Cousins Avery and Almeda Harriman
b. 1884; d. 1957
Note: Percy ran a general store at the ferry landing in Prosect, Maine. After the ferry stopped running following the opening of the Waldo-Hancock Bridge, Percy moved the store up to the main road. Percy served as a selectman in the town of Prospect. Was a member of the Fort Know Lodge and Riverview Rebekah Lodge of Bucksport.

9. Raymond Douglass Mills, b. May 4, 1916
m. Mary Wilberta "Mae" Falconer, dau. of George Falconer and Mary Ann Curtis
b. May 16, 1923; d. January 15, 2006, Belfast, Maine

10. Mary Jeanne Mills, b. May 16, 1947, Bangor, Maine
m. Lionel Leroy "Bud" Merrill, Jr., son of Lionel Leroy Merrill, Sr. and Arlene Mildred Howe
b. October 28, 1943, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine

11. Brian Merrill, b. April 20, 1968
m. Cara Kelly, dau. Leighton Kelly and Patricia Gilmartin
b. August 5, 1967