Alexander Mills

Alexander Mills

• Father: Thomas Mills b. circa 1827
• Mother: Mary Stevenson b. circa 1831

• Alexander Mills was born on 7 April 1854 in Scotland.
• Alexander Mills arrived in the United States circa 1856, according to the 1930 census.
• Thomas Mills and Mary Stevenson appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Quincy PO, Olmsted County, Minnesota. Other members of the household included Alexander Mills, Thomas W. Mills and Robert B. Mills.
• Thomas Mills and Mary Stevenson appeared in the Minnesota state census of 1 June 1865 in Quincy, Olmsted County, Minnesota. Other members of the household included Alexander Mills, Thomas W. Mills, Robert B. Mills and Lena C. Mills. Also in the household is an daughter whose name is indecipherable, probably Lena.
• He married Emma Winston Parrott on 2 April 1883 in Bismarck, Dakota Territory.
• Alexander Mills and Emma Winston Parrott appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Rock Creek, Whitman County, Washington. Other members of the household included Edith Abby Mills, Robert Henry Mills, Alta Ione Mills and Thomas Arthur Mills.
• 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 Edith Abby Mills, Thomas Arthur Mills, Blanche Cameron, Robert Henry Mills, Alta Ione Mills and Allene Leone 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 and Dean Deveaux Williams. Rooming in the household was high school teacher Clara Post, age 25.
• He was employed as a railway station baggage clerk, according to the 1920 census.
• Robert Deveaux Williams appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Sprague, Lincoln County, Washington, at First Street. Other members of the household included Alexander Mills, Dean Deveaux Williams and Emma Winston Parrott. Robert and son Dean also are enumerated in 1930 in adjacent Adams County.
• 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.

• Last Edited: 4 Apr 2012