Henry Harrison Mills
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Mar 1839 - Black Rock, Warren Co, VA
Christening:
Death: 30 Oct 1917 - The Cove, Warren Co, VA
Burial: in The Cove, Warren Co, VA
Cause of Death: ?something and heart trouble
AFN :
Events
• Event
It is said that Henry once was married to an Indian Princess. One version, "He married the Princess (not legally, but in an Indian Ceremony) either before he married Sarah or after she died and before he married Becky. Anyhow, he wanted to find out the secret remedies that the Indians had, so he married the Princess. They went away on a honeymoon for a couple of days then returned to the tribe. He lived with her in a teepee. The marriage only lasted about 10 days and then he left her. Some say she had a child. Henry's? No one knows." Others say that his first wife Sarah was the Indian Princess. Maybe we will never know, but it is an interesting story.• Military, Private, 23rd Calvary, Company D
He was captured 23 Sep 1864 at Strasburg, VA. Listed on the roll of Prisoners Paroled at Point Lookout, Maryland and transferred to Aikens Landing, VA on 17 Mar 1865 for exchange. His name is again on a list of prisoners-of-war, paroled between 8 May 1865 and 21 Jun 1865 at various places in VA. On 4 Jun 1865, A.H. Robinson at Winchester, VA paroled him. (Source: National Archives and Service Records)• Occupation, Farmer
• Occupation, StoneMason
• Physical Description, being 5'5" tall, having a light complexion, light hair and dark eyes.
• Census, Federal, 1850 in Warren Co, VA
David Garret, age 66, Laborer; Mary, age 65; Matilda Mills, age 32; David Mills, age 15, laborer; Marcus W Mills, age 13; Henry Mills, age 11; Angelina Mills, age 2.• Census, Federal, 1860 in Front Royal, Warren Co, VA
H.H. Mills, age 21, day laborer; Sarah Mills, age 21; Matilda Triplett, age 40; Betsy Triplett, age 6.• Census, Federal, 1870 in Front Royal, Warren Co, VA
Mills, Henry, age 31, farmer, assets 250, born VA; Sarah F, age 31, at home; Martha E, age 10, at home; Melvilla age 8, at home; John H, age 6, at home; Matilda, age 4, at home; Marcus W, age 2, at home.• Census, Federal, 1880 in Front Royal, Warren Co, VA
Mills, Henry H, age 40, widowed, laborer; John H, age 16, laborer; Matilda, age 13, laborer; Marcus, age 11; William, age 7; David, age 5; Mary Willis, age 50, sister-in-law, keeping house.
Parents
Father: Alexander W "Sandy" Mills
Mother: Matilda Garrett
Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca J Shipe
Marriage: 29 Dec 1881 - Warren Co, VA
Status:
Children:
1. Henry Dorsey Mills
2. Jacob Franklin "Jake" Mills
3. Sarah Frances Mills
4. Annie Mills
5. Amanda Melvina "Mandy" Mills
2. Sarah Ellen Willis
Marriage: 1 Dec 1859 - VA
Status:
Children:
1. Martha Ellen Mills
2. Melvilla Monroe Mills
3. John Henry Mills
4. Matilda Mae "Tilda" Mills
5. Marcus William Mills
6. Elizabeth "Betty" Mills
7. William Bushrod "Will" Mills
8. David Alexander "Dave" Mills
9. Charles Mills
Notes
Burial Notes:
Henry Harrison and his daughter Amanada (by second wife, Becky) and a grandchild are buried on his old farm place on the Manor Rd. between Front Royal and Browntown. The burial place is now on the Park area of Skyline Drive, on a tree-vine grown ridge that once was open ground with tall cedar beside it.General:
Henry Harrison Mills was a Confederate soldier and supposedly bragged a lot about his war experiences. Cousin Virginia told me he sometimes overindulged in homemade blackberry wine. On a trip to Front Royal, I asked a couple of neighbors of his old house if that was true, and they told me "That old man drank rubbing alcohol."Marriage Notes (Rebecca J Shipe)
The house has since been torn down. As a child and young man, Henry Harrison Mills lived in Harmony Hollow on the east side of the Blue Ridge. Later he moved to The Cove area, on the west side of the Blue Ridge. Both properties were on the farm of Marcus Buck. Buck filed for bankruptcy and moved away, and HH Mills eventually bought the land on which his Cove home was situated.
Joan Hacket
Eld John Clark