She died in Center Township at the home left to her by her parents, Duston & Louisa Mills, which sat just east of Fairview Road (CR 450 E). I presume her parents are buried here, too, but so many burials were either unmarked or the headstones lost over the years. Her burial is unmarked, but verified by the death certificate.
On the 1880 U.S. Census, she is 40 and living on the farm with her mother. The census taker marked her as "idiotic." Her mother died two years after that census was taken and Elvira, presumably, remained there with sister Mary Kathryn (Mills) Olds who took over the farm. By the 1910 U.S. Census, her nephew John Olds owned the farm. That's where she remained until her death in 1913 of a heart valve problem, complicated by fluid on her lungs.
The cemetery was then owned by W. S. McConnell and it sits almost directly across CR 450 E from where the Mills family settled in the early part of the 19th century. Elvira's grandfather, James Mills, was an early Gibson County pioneer from Maine. Her sister, Berilla (Mills) Greek, is buried here with husband, Joseph Greek, and she wrote the family history for Gil R. Stormont's "History of Gibson County, Indiana: Her people, industries and institutions."
On the 1880 U.S. Census, she is 40 and living on the farm with her mother. The census taker marked her as "idiotic." Her mother died two years after that census was taken and Elvira, presumably, remained there with sister Mary Kathryn (Mills) Olds who took over the farm. By the 1910 U.S. Census, her nephew John Olds owned the farm. That's where she remained until her death in 1913 of a heart valve problem, complicated by fluid on her lungs.
The cemetery was then owned by W. S. McConnell and it sits almost directly across CR 450 E from where the Mills family settled in the early part of the 19th century. Elvira's grandfather, James Mills, was an early Gibson County pioneer from Maine. Her sister, Berilla (Mills) Greek, is buried here with husband, Joseph Greek, and she wrote the family history for Gil R. Stormont's "History of Gibson County, Indiana: Her people, industries and institutions."
She died in Center Township at the home left to her by her parents, Duston & Louisa Mills, which sat just east of Fairview Road (CR 450 E). I presume her parents are buried here, too, but so many burials were either unmarked or the headstones lost over the years. Her burial is unmarked, but verified by the death certificate.
On the 1880 U.S. Census, she is 40 and living on the farm with her mother. The census taker marked her as "idiotic." Her mother died two years after that census was taken and Elvira, presumably, remained there with sister Mary Kathryn (Mills) Olds who took over the farm. By the 1910 U.S. Census, her nephew John Olds owned the farm. That's where she remained until her death in 1913 of a heart valve problem, complicated by fluid on her lungs.
The cemetery was then owned by W. S. McConnell and it sits almost directly across CR 450 E from where the Mills family settled in the early part of the 19th century. Elvira's grandfather, James Mills, was an early Gibson County pioneer from Maine. Her sister, Berilla (Mills) Greek, is buried here with husband, Joseph Greek, and she wrote the family history for Gil R. Stormont's "History of Gibson County, Indiana: Her people, industries and institutions."
On the 1880 U.S. Census, she is 40 and living on the farm with her mother. The census taker marked her as "idiotic." Her mother died two years after that census was taken and Elvira, presumably, remained there with sister Mary Kathryn (Mills) Olds who took over the farm. By the 1910 U.S. Census, her nephew John Olds owned the farm. That's where she remained until her death in 1913 of a heart valve problem, complicated by fluid on her lungs.
The cemetery was then owned by W. S. McConnell and it sits almost directly across CR 450 E from where the Mills family settled in the early part of the 19th century. Elvira's grandfather, James Mills, was an early Gibson County pioneer from Maine. Her sister, Berilla (Mills) Greek, is buried here with husband, Joseph Greek, and she wrote the family history for Gil R. Stormont's "History of Gibson County, Indiana: Her people, industries and institutions."
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