This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/5998 Message Board Post: ARTHUR RICH MILLS Arthur RICH MILLS was born in the Town of Hume, Feb. 18, 1869. He was the son of Balfour MILLS and Adelaide PECK MILLS. There were three children in his family: two sisters, Mrs. Dorliska SMITH and Mrs. Ethel HOLLAND survive. His education was attained in district schools in the Town of Hume and he attended Pike Seminary for a time. He also spent some time at the Rochester Business University. When a young man, he worked in the lumber woods of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pensylvania [sic] and also worked in Denver, Colorado, and on the Yerby Ranch in that State. Except for these times the rest of his life was spent in farming. He had lived on the same farm for the last 55 years. He was one of the first breeders of registered Holstein cattle in this section and always told with pride of the ribbons they won at the County and State fairs. He was always interested in music and was for many years a member of the MILLS Orchestra and MERVILLE's Orchestra which many old timers will remember. He played the bass viol and sometimes the violin and was the caller at the dances where the orchestras played. He also played the tuba in the old Wiscoy Band as he did later in the Rossburg and Portageville Bands. As a young man he played ball with the Rossburg Baseball Club as catcher. In the early days no catcher's glove or chest protector were in use and the catchers hands took severe pounding. At one time Fielder JONES who later went to Brooklyn and Chicago, and then to manager of the St. Louis Browns, played with the Rossburg team and wanted MILLS and a couple of others to go with him but they all elected to stay at Rossburg. He was at one time Deputy Sheriff of Allegany County and served as town constable and district trustee many times. In 1892 he married Minnie HODNETT of Fillmore who died in 1897. He then married Julia DOLE in March 1898. To this union two children were born, Balfour D. of Wiscoy and Adelaide (Mrs. Clyde HOPSON) of Mountain Home, Idaho. Mrs. MILLS died in 1906 and from then until the children were grown he kept them together and did for them the best he could. In 1920 he married Mrs. Effie REDANZ of Fillmore, who died in 1942. Since that time he has again lived alone except for times of illness when he was cared for in his son's home. His health had been gradually failing for the past few years but his last illness was of only a few weeks duration and he passed away at his farm home on May 20, 1949. Burial was in the Alger Cemetery. Besides his two sisters, son and daughter mentioned above, he is survived by six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Northern Allegany Observer obituary.