Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to find traces of my great-grandparents whose names were supposedly James and Pheba Jane THOMAS MILLS. I have found a death certificate on a Jane Mills born 1876 in KY to Wiley and Sally THOMAS. I know this is the right lady because her funeral was paid for by a Carlis Mills, which is my great-uncle. I have found her gravesite, which has a stone marked Jane Thomas Mills with a birth date of 1878. I have also found one census record for 1910 in Scott Co. TN in which a Pheba Jane Mills is listed as a widow born in 1881 with 4 living children. The children living with her are William Floyd (my grandfather), Lawrence, and Carlis. I have no idea who or where the 4th child was. The census record says that Pheba Jane was born in TN to parents both from TN. It also says that the children were born in KY to parents both from TN. I can't find a James and Pheba Jane Mills on the 1900 soundex for KY, his is where they should have been when their first child was born. There is a family in Scott Co. TN who descended from an Abner Thomas. One of Abner's sons may have been named Abner Wiley. This Abner Wiley may have moved to Wayne Co. KY as there is an 1880 census record for a Abner and Sally Thomas with a 2-year-old daughter named Jane. I have never seen Pheba Jane's husband's name on any documents, so it could very well be something other than James. I know my father called his father William all his life, even though his SS file and headstone both had only Floyd on them. Floyd's SS says he was born in Knox Co. TN, but there are family names in Knox Co. KY that are hard to ignore. For example, one of Floyd's sons is named Oda and I have found the name Oda Mills more than once in Knox Co. KY during the late 1800's. Could they be Floyd's uncles, etc..?? One other thing, Jane is said to have committed a murder in self-defense when she had "one child on the hip and was pregnant with another". The family story is that the person she murdered was a woman who came to her house with the intent of harming her. Not counting the 4th unidentified mystery child, I know that Jane's children were born between 1901 and 1906, putting the murder sometime between 1902 and 1906. I am assuming that it happened in KY or TN. If any of you have access to birth records in Knox Co. KY or Knox Co. TN, I would be so very grateful if you could help me find a birth record for my grandfather William Floyd MILLS, born in 1901. Or if you have any other clues or suggestions, I would appreciate those too. THANKS, Lisa