Allene Leone Mills
b. 20 August 1904, d. 11 April 1989
- Father: Alexander Mills b. 7 April 1854
- Mother: Emma Winston Parrott b. 20 October 1859, d. 30 January 1956
- Allene Leone Mills was born on 20 August 1904 in Sprague, Lincoln County, Washington.
- Alexander Mills and Emma Winston Parrott appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Union, Whitman County, Washington. Other members of the household included Allene Leone Mills, Edith Abby Mills, Thomas Arthur Mills, Blanche Cameron, Robert Henry Mills and Alta Ione Mills.
- Alexander Mills and Emma Winston Parrott appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Ritzville, Adams County, Washington, at 33 Sixth Street. Other members of the household included Allene Leone Mills, Dean Deveaux Williams. Rooming in the household was high school teacher Clara Post, age 25.
- She married Richard B. Ott on 18 July 1926.
- The following appeared on 2 February 1956 in the Ritzville Journal-Times: Funeral services for Mrs. Emma W. Mills, 96-year-old Inland Empire pioneer who died here Monday, were held Wednesday at the Sprague Community church with burial at Greenwood cemetery, Spokane. She was living in Sprague with a daughter, Mrs. Park N. Smalley.
Mrs. Mills and her husband, Alexander Mills, came to Washington from North Dakota in 1892. They lived at Tacoma and Pullman before settling on a farm near Sprague.
Later they moved to Ritzville where they lived for 12 years. Since her husband's death in 1936, Mrs. Mills had lived both with Mrs. Smalley in Sprague and with another daughter, Mrs. Richard B. Ott, in Ritzville.
Mrs. Mills was a member of Henrietta chapter of the Order of Eastern Star at Sprague and had been a member of the Espicopal church, later. Mrs. Mills also was survived by two sons, T. A. Mills of Sprague and R. H. Mills of Spokane, three grandchildren, Dean D. Williams of Portland, Don M. Smalley of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Mrs. Willard Hennings of Ritzville, and five grandchildren.
Another daughter, Mrs. R. D. Williams, had preceded her in death.
Danekas and Duncan funeral home was in charge of arrangments. - Allene Leone Mills became a widow at the 30 April 1987 death of her husband Richard B. Ott.
- The SSDI lists Ritzville, Adams County, Washington, as the last residence of record of Allene Leone Mills.
- Allene Leone Mills died on 11 April 1989 at age 84.
- She was interred at Ritzville Memorial Cemetery, Ritzville, Adams County, Washington.
- Last Edited: 6 Apr 2012