NameJohn Edgar MILLS
, 1656
Death3 Aug 1903, Marysville, St. Clair, Michigan [1, year & place only], [1140, p 1; year only], [1153, p 1, date only], [7112] Age: 38
Residenceof Cleveland (1888) [4701]
Death causevein bursting in his head [7111]
Death causeLocomotor ataxia (10 years) [7112]
Individual Notes
• Lived in Cleveland, Panther, W. Va, and Port Huron and died in Marysville.
[1]• Having heretofore advanced considerable sums to my son John E. Mills and having incurred for him large additional liability which my estate may be called upon to pay, I make no provision for him in this will...
[1135, p 50] The other children were asked to deal fairly and justly by this son.
[1128]• Witness to the marriage of Eugene M. Carleton of Cleveland & Alberta Bunce of Marysville; 28 Nov 1888, Marysville; John E. Mills, of Cleveland.
[4701]
Census
• 1870 Census: Marysville, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 5, b MI.
[1689]• 1880 Census: Marysville, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 14, b MI.
[1707]• 1884 Michigan Census: Port Huron Township, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 18, b MI.
[1147]• 1900 Census: Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 35, b Apr 1864, MI. General Business. Father b Canada; mother b MI. Married 9 years.
[1754]
Directories
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1896 Cleveland directory:
Mills, John E. vessel owner, r. The Ellington
[7066][On the same page is: MILLS, CARLETON & CO., N. & B. Mills, Marysville, Mich. and C. H. and E. M. Carleton, Lumber, 714 Seneca; Telephone 618]
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1902 Port Huron, Michigan directory:
Mills, John E. vessel owner, rms 608-9 Bush Bldg. res. 931 Pine
[7067]
Spouses
Birth4 Feb 1871, Geauga County, Ohio [7071]
Death18 Jun 1944, Cuyahoga County, Ohio [7071] Age: 73
FlagsEldest Child
FatherJohn Benjamin McKAY (1851-1924)
MotherEmily Adelaide FRENCH (1850-1926)
Individual Notes
• Listed as Carrie M. McKay.
[7068]• I do have a few pictures of Cora…she was in the follies from what I was told. Cora married wealthy Edgar Mills. She ran a rooming house and beauty parlor. When Edgar died suddenly at age 25 [sic] from a vein bursting in his head, his parents took everything away from her. She never remarried.
[7111]
Census
• 1880 Census: Danville, Vermilion, Illinois. Age 9, b OH. Father b IN; mother b Canada.
[7073]• 1900 Census: Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 28, b Feb 1872, MI. Parents birthplaces Unknown. Married 9 years. Listed as Cora M. Mills.
[1754]• 1910 Census: Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Age 38, b OH. Head. Widow. Father b OH; mother b Canada.
[7075]• 1940 Census: Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. Age 69, b OH. Head. Widow. Lived same place for 5 years. Listed as Cora M. Mills.
[7076]
Marriage Notes
• Married nine years in 1900.
[1754]• I do have Edgar and Cora’s marriage record, although it lists Cora as “Carrie.”
[7111]