He was born in Hancock County, Tennessee to farmer Joel Mills & wife Mary (Cloud), the fourth of their seven children. His mother died in 1847 and his father remarried, producing seven further children with his second wife.
About 1861 Orville married Melvina Wolfe, a distant relative of his step-mother. Their daughter Polly was born in Hancock County 15 Aug 1862.
On 27 July 1863, at Thorn Hill, Grainger County, TN, Orville enlisted in Co. G of the 12th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry, for a period of six months. Within that period he found himself in a Union POW camp near the Cumberland Gap, from which he was finally paroled in 20 April 1865.
The Cumberland Gap was near his home and he an Melvina soon decided to remove to Clay County, Kentucky, where they took up farming. The remaining seven of their eight children were born there.
In 1892 they sold out their farm and migrated west to the newly established farming area around Iowa Park, Texas where they lived out their lives.
About 1861 Orville married Melvina Wolfe, a distant relative of his step-mother. Their daughter Polly was born in Hancock County 15 Aug 1862.
On 27 July 1863, at Thorn Hill, Grainger County, TN, Orville enlisted in Co. G of the 12th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry, for a period of six months. Within that period he found himself in a Union POW camp near the Cumberland Gap, from which he was finally paroled in 20 April 1865.
The Cumberland Gap was near his home and he an Melvina soon decided to remove to Clay County, Kentucky, where they took up farming. The remaining seven of their eight children were born there.
In 1892 they sold out their farm and migrated west to the newly established farming area around Iowa Park, Texas where they lived out their lives.
He was born in Hancock County, Tennessee to farmer Joel Mills & wife Mary (Cloud), the fourth of their seven children. His mother died in 1847 and his father remarried, producing seven further children with his second wife.
About 1861 Orville married Melvina Wolfe, a distant relative of his step-mother. Their daughter Polly was born in Hancock County 15 Aug 1862.
On 27 July 1863, at Thorn Hill, Grainger County, TN, Orville enlisted in Co. G of the 12th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry, for a period of six months. Within that period he found himself in a Union POW camp near the Cumberland Gap, from which he was finally paroled in 20 April 1865.
The Cumberland Gap was near his home and he an Melvina soon decided to remove to Clay County, Kentucky, where they took up farming. The remaining seven of their eight children were born there.
In 1892 they sold out their farm and migrated west to the newly established farming area around Iowa Park, Texas where they lived out their lives.
About 1861 Orville married Melvina Wolfe, a distant relative of his step-mother. Their daughter Polly was born in Hancock County 15 Aug 1862.
On 27 July 1863, at Thorn Hill, Grainger County, TN, Orville enlisted in Co. G of the 12th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry, for a period of six months. Within that period he found himself in a Union POW camp near the Cumberland Gap, from which he was finally paroled in 20 April 1865.
The Cumberland Gap was near his home and he an Melvina soon decided to remove to Clay County, Kentucky, where they took up farming. The remaining seven of their eight children were born there.
In 1892 they sold out their farm and migrated west to the newly established farming area around Iowa Park, Texas where they lived out their lives.
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