Cousins: When I do genealogy, I have two purposes: one is to find as many ancestors as possible, and the other is to make contact with living descendants of my ancestors. The search for Mills ancestors is going pretty well, but I haven't found many cousins. Due to intensive dredging of census data, I now have a lot more information about my Missouri Mills relatives than when I last inquired on this list. The information below is given partly to be helpful and partly to locate others of this line. I would like to correspond with descendants of David W. and Margaret Wells Mills.of IN and MO. David was born in Warren Co, OH in 1830, the son of Michael and Elizabeth Whitacre Mills. He grew up in Jefferson Twp, Jay Co IN and became both a farmer and a Free Will Baptist preacher (like his father). He married Margaret Wells, of an old Jefferson Twp, Jay Co IN family, and they had six sons while living in Indiana - first (1860) in Jay County and then (1870) in Gilboa Twp, Benton Co, IN. In the early 1870s, they moved to Union Twp, Worth Co, MO, where they had two more sons. Their eight sons were James (1854), Jonathan (1857), Cyrus L. (1858), Morton (1863), Charles (1866), Edgar (1869), Harlan (1874), and Howard (1879). In 1880, David was listed as a farmer and minister in Union Twp, Worth Co, MO. David died in 1896 and was buried in Jay Co IN. In 1900, Margaret was listed as age 68, living with Harlan and Howard in Grant, Worth Co, MO. What follows is information about three of David's and Margaret's children. Does any of this ring a family bell with someone? (1) Jonathan R. Mills, 43, and his wife Rose E., 42, were living in Pasadena, Los Angeles Co, CA in 1900, having been married 18 years, with five children. Jonathan was b Nov 1856 And Rose Jul 1857. She was born in IL, and her parents were btoh from OH. Their children included William D (b May 1882 in MO), Grace (b Oct 1884 in KS), Cyrus A (b Dec 1886 in KS), Bertha (b 1893 in CA), and Earl (b 1898 in CA). (2) Harlan P. Mills, 39, and his wife Maude E. 40, were living in St. Joseph, MO in 1910, where Howard was a physician at the State Hospital. Howard was b in MO, and Maude in IL; her parents were both b in MA. They had been married seven years and had two children: Clarence 5 and Roscoe 4. By 1920, Harlan and his family were in Phoenix, Maricopa Co, AZ, where he was a pathologist working in a lab. I have no further record of children for them. Harlan was 49 and Maud 50 in 1920, and the boys were 14 and 13, respectively. By 1930, Harlan, still a pathologist in Phoenix, had a different wife. Her name is partly obscured on the census record but looks something like Landosia. He was 56 and she 42, b MD, parents b CT and MD. No children were living with them. Harlan's sons appear also in the 1930 census. Clarence, 25, and his wife Marie E. 21, are living in Maricopa Co AZ, where he is a mechanic at the AZ State Hospital for the Insane. Marie's parents were b in TX, as was she. Clarence and Marie had one daughter Barbara J., whose age was obscured but appeared to be less than one year. Roscoe 23, was a single roomer in the home of Edward and Lillian Allen, at 730 Magnolia St., Pasadena, LA Co, CA. No occupation was given. (One might guess that he had migrated to Pasadena partly because his Uncle Jonathan was there.) (3) In 1910, Howard W. Mills , 31, was a newspaper editor in Mound City, Holt Co, MO. His wife was Laura, 27, b in MO, with parents b in IA. They had one daughter, Irene, age 2, b in MO. By 1920, Howard, 40, was a widower, and a printer in Mound City. Daughter Irene was 11, and four other children were present, all b in MO: Dorothy 7, Ruth 5, and twins Austin and Harold 3 1/2. In 1930, Howard had remarried and was now postmaster in Mound City. Howard was 51, and his second wife Hope was 37 - she was b in MO and both of her parents were from IN. In addition to Dorothy 17, Ruth 15, Austin and Harold both 13, two other children are present: Yvonne 14 (adopted) who was b MN and whose parents were born in IA and MO; and Paul 7. Paul was b in MO, of MO-born parents, and he appears to be the son of Howard and Hope. _______________ Remarkable how much information can be gleaned from census returns, isn't it? Ted Mills