Mary Ann (Unknown) Mills (abt. 1739 - 1808)

Descendants

Died 15 Mar 1808 at about age 69 in St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, Charleston District, South Carolina

Biography

Mary was born circa 1739.^[1] Her origins and parentage remain unknown.

She married first Thomas Addison.^[2]

Their daughter was Martha (Addison) Duval (1774 - 1809).

She married second Ezekiel Mills "of Virginia" on or before 1 January 1784, probably in St. Thomas & St. Denis Parish.^[3]

Mary died on 15 March 1808 in St. Thomas & St. Denis Parish,^[4] and she was probably buried there in the church cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ Mary was in her sixty-ninth year when she died. Death notice, The Charleston Courier, 24 March 1808, p. 3; digital image, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A11A09312E50DDED0%40GB3NEWS-13832DFD383FFA88%402381501-13831F6A664EF608%402-138DEBB6D2621060%40Mortuary%2BNotice?h=1&fname=Mary&lname=Mills&fullname=&kwinc=&kwexc=&rgfromDate=1808&rgtoDate=1808&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo= : accessed September 2019).
2. ↑ Thomas named his wife Mary in his will. Caroline T. Moore, Abstracts of the Wills of the State of South Carolina, 1760–1784, Vol. III (Columbia, S.C.: The R. L. Bryan Co., 1969), 302.
3. ↑ "Marriages," South-Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser, 1 January 1784, p. 4; digital image, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A107BB63A1428DF98%40GB3NEWS-10776915EA8BC110%402372653-1077691674ECDFB8%403-10776917AF49BE50%40Matrimony%2BNotice?h=2&fname=Ezekiel&lname=Mills&fullname=&kwinc=&kwexc=&rgfromDate=1784&rgtoDate=1784&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo= : accessed September 2019). The newspaper notice erroneously states that Mary was the widow of John Addison.
4. ↑ Death notice, The Charleston Courier, 24 March 1808, p. 3; digital image, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A11A09312E50DDED0%40GB3NEWS-13832DFD383FFA88%402381501-13831F6A664EF608%402-138DEBB6D2621060%40Mortuary%2BNotice?h=1&fname=Mary&lname=Mills&fullname=&kwinc=&kwexc=&rgfromDate=1808&rgtoDate=1808&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo= : accessed September 2019).