Born in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Ancestors 
Daughter of Gideon Mills II
and Ruth (Humphrey) Mills
Sister of
Gideon Mills III, Oliver Mills MD, Elizabeth (Mills) Thompson, Susannah (Mills) Richardson and Sarah Ann (Mills) Woodruff
Wife of
Owen Brown
— married
11 Feb 1793 in Simsbury Hartford Co. CT. USA
Descendants 
Mother of
Salmon Brown I, Levi Brown Blakeslee, Unnamed Brown, Ruth Anna Brown, John A Brown, Salmon Brown II, Oliver Owen Brown, Frederick Brown and Sally Brown
Died
at age 36
in Hudson, Summit, Ohio, United States
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Biography
Ruth Mills was the first child of Lieut. Gideon Mills & Rith Humphrey.[1] She married Owen Brown.[1] She is the mother of the famous abolitionist John Brown.
Local tradition holds that Ruth was the first person buried in the new Hudson Cemetery; Spring flooding caused her casket to surface; the town moved the cemetery to what is now Church Street just North of the town square in Hudson, Summit, Ohio, where her very weathered grave marker is still visible (as of 2019). [2]
Ruth was born in 1772.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Genealogical history, with short sketches and family records, of the early settlers of West Simsbury, now Canton, Conn. by Abiel Brown. 1899. Page 100
- ↑ Entered by Jeffrey Alan Mills, Wednesday, 31 JUL 2019.
- https://www.kancoll.org/articles/browns.htm
- Fina a Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8844216/ruth-brown
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruth:
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~1.56%
Jomi (Blagdon) Coffield
:
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~1.56%
Stephen Stiles :
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Russell Thomas :
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Mills-25519 and Mills-2504 appear to represent the same person because: still learning this wiki tree
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Marie Chantigny
Mills-2504 and Mills-10841 appear to represent the same person because: Same person /same information
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Rejected matches › Ruth Mills (1870-)
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