Aaron Mills (1749 - 1794)

John and Mary Davis Mills

Son John Mills married Mary Davis, daughter of John and Jane Mills Davis on 2/2/1803 at Lost Creek MM in Jefferson County, Tennessee. She was granddaughter of John and Sarah Millikan Mills. Their children were Jane (7/8/1804); Seth (10/3/1805); Elizabeth Ann(2/28/1807); Charity (9/3/1808); Aaron(2/5/1810); and Kerenhappuch(female 4/4/1812).

Daughter Jane married Dempsey Thornbrough, son of Walter and Mary Baldwin Thornbrough, on 12/22/1822 in Wayne County, Indiana. Dempsey was grandson of Henry and Rachel Moon Thornbrough. The other five children of John and Mary all married Canadys (we will sort those out and post them). Seth and Charity Thornbrough Mills and Moses and Elizabeth Thornbrough Mills

Son Seth T. Mills married Charity Thornbrough, daughter of Walter and Mary Baldwin Thornbrough, on 9/30/1808 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. They had children Aaron, Kinsey, Betsey Ann, Mary Ann. These names were gleaned from transfer certificates when the family moved to Indiana. (see move to Indiana above).A son Jacob was born after the arrival in Indiana. Seth Mills is mentioned in the History of Wayne Co (1872) as building the second grist-mill in Dalton Township about 1826.

Son Moses Mills married Elizabeth Thornbrough, daughter of Walter and Mary Baldwin Thornbrough, about 1811 in Jefferson County. They had a son Milton, and a daughter Garelda mentioned in transfer certificates to Indiana (see move to Indiana above). They had a son John born 1828 in Indiana, the year that father Moses died.

Both women were granddaughters of Henry and Rachel Moon Thornbrough and sisters of Dempsey Thornbrough who married John’s daughter Jane(above). Isaac and Rachel Beals Mills

Son Isaac Mills married Rachel Beals sometime before 7/27/1811 in Jefferson County as both condemned their marriage contrary to discipline at Lost Creek Monthly Meeting on that date. We have so far not been able to identify Rachel's parents as the Beals name is so common there. Also we do not know why Rachel alone had a certificate to Indiana (see move to Indiana above). Aaron and Nancy Fife Mills

Thanks to a descendant, Larry Mills, we have added son Aaron Mills to the children of Aaron and Charity Mendenhall Mills. (See notes above under the move to Tennessee for proof that he was an additional son.) In the Lost Creek Monthly Meeting Records it includes three entries: 10/30/1813 Aaron con his fighting; 12/31/1814 Aaron con his marriage contrary to discipline; and 7/28/1815 Aaron gct to Whitewater MM [Indiana]. Lawrence Lee Mills gives a marriage bond, dated 7, 6, 1814 Jefferson County, Tn issued to Aaron Mills and Nancy Fife, with a Jonathan Thornburgh as bondsman. There should be further records at Whitewater MM.

Aaron Mills is listed in the Daughters of the American Revolution under Fil3 #A079836. The file carries him erroneously as dieing at Deep River, North Carolina. He furnished supplies during the Revolution. Other applications filed under his includ Charity Ellen Wills with husband John Gwin and Henry Mills with wife Hannah Woodward.