Mills Cemetery – behind 9462 Sweet Annie Drive, Floyd Co., VA.

Original Source: documented 14 Nov 2008 by Jo Parr & Genevieve C. Starkey, with thanks to Mr. Jim Conner & his Mother.

Find A Grave Name: Not Noted In Find A Grave as of Jul 2021

Annotations – added 2021 by Barb Camery Reininger unless otherwise stated

Annotations in Red – correction to original text by Barb Camery Reininger

+ indicates on same tombstone

& indicates a relationship

w/o Wife of

d/o Daughter of

s/o Son of

c/o Child of

Notes: see after interments

Photos

NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

MARKER NOTES

ANOTATIONS

 

Mills, Ester Harriet

19 Dec 1897

29 May 1918

w/o T. F. Mills

Aka Esther Harriet Wimmer Mills, w/o Thomas F. Mills & d/o Lucy C. Wimmer. Father blank on death cert. Burial: W. H. Mills Fam B.G.

A daughter Esther Franklin Mills, b. alive 26 May 1918 Copper Hill, Locust Grove District, Floyd Co., VA. Father Thomas F. Mills, b. VA. Mother: Esther W. Wimmer b. VA.

 

Mills, William Fletcher

06 Nov 1891

19 Jan 1909

s/o W. H. & Eliza L. Mills

probable s/o William Haden & Eliza Louise (Aldridge) Mills.

 

Smith, Frank Allen

14 Nov 1916

28 Dec 1916

s/o B. J. & Effie Smith

Death Cert: s/o Daniel Smith, b. Franklin, & Effie Mills, b. Franklin. COD: congenital hydrocephalus causing acute meningitis. Burial: Mills burial yard.

 

Mills, Myrtle

10 Jun 1911

09 Feb 1926

 

Death Cert: Myrtle Edna Mills, died Jefferson Hosp. Roanoke but of Copper Hill, VA. 14y 7m 29d, b. Floyd Co., VA. Father: W. S. Mills, b. Franklin. Mother: Eliza Wimmer, b. Floyd Co., VA. COD: bilateral pneumonia with empyema. Burial or Removal: Floyd Co., VA

 

Mills, Infant

18 Jan 1926

23 Jan 1926

Infant of Myrtle E. Mills

Death Cert: not named female b. Floyd Co., VA, d. Locust Grove District, Floyd Co., VA. Father: blank. Mother: Myrtle Mills, b. Floyd Co., VA. Informant: Walter Mills. COD: icterus neonatorum. Burial: Mills burial ground.

 

Mills, Infant daughter

 

26 Feb 1917

Infant d/o Walter & Eliza Mills

Death Cert: not named female, b. Floyd Co., VA, d. Locust Grove District, Floyd Co., VA. Father: Walter S. Mills, b. Franklin Co., VA. Mother: Eliza A. Wimmer, b. Floyd Co., VA. Informant: Walter S. Mills of Copper Hill, VA. COD: premature labor

caused by lagrip & bronchitis (maternal). Gestation 6 months. Burial Mills burial ground.

 

I appear all of the above have a connection to William Haden & Eliza L. (Aldridge) Mills. William was from Franklin Co., VA, s/o Mary M. Mills, father unknown. [no file] His wife Eliza Louise Aldridge Mills, d/o James Peter Aldridge & Mary Elizabeth (Aldridge) Aldridge. I have an 1887 marriage for them. [Aldredge_Anderson_Elizabeth] William Haden & Eliza Louise (Aldridge) Mills are buried in the Copper Hill Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Copper Hill, Floyd Co., VA.

In 1900 they are noted in Locust Grove District Floyd Co., VA as follows:

 

Waller or Walter Staples Mills will m. Elizabeth Cynthia Wimmer 1910 Floyd

Effie Smith will m. Daniel J. Smith 1915 Rockingham Co., NC. The above noted Frank Allen Smith would be their son.

William Fletcher Mills, d. 1909

Robert Emory Mills, 1893-1973, m. Miranda Vesta Mills. Miranda, 1892-1972, was b. in Franklin Co., VA, d/o Henry Alexander & Generva (Custer) Mills. I don’t know where they married.

Mary Elizabeth “Bessie” Mills, 1895-1953, m. Robert E. Lee. They are buried in the Copper Hill Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Copper Hill, Floyd Co., VA. I don’t know where they married.

Thomas Franklin Mills, 1898-1967; m. Carrie Via, 1892-1977, b. Franklin Co., VA, d/o William & Martha (Bryant) Via. They are also  buried in the Copper Hill Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Copper Hill, Floyd Co., VA and don’t know where they married either.

Same family in 1910 Locust Grove District of Floyd:

 

Gillie is actually a female and full name is Katherine Gillie Mill; m. Clyde S. Caldwell.

Pearl, 1903-2001, m. Birdine Valentine Dewese 1922 Floyd; buried Evergreen.

Sallie Anne Mills, 1905-1990, m. William Curtis Dewese but not in Floyd; buried Copper Hill.

Elmetta Thelma “Mettie” Mills, 1906-1990; m. Leslie Isaac Prillaman 1941 Franklin.

1 more born after 1910:

Eliza Ada Mills, 1913-1967, m. Ralph Young 1931, divorce 1938. Died as Eliza Ada Young. She I buried in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens.