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Isaac Leonard “Ike” Mills

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Isaac Leonard “Ike” Mills Veteran

Birth
Columbus County, North Carolina, USA
Death
23 Jun 1914 (aged 82)
Vidette, Crenshaw County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Patsburg, Crenshaw County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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Son of William E. and Eleanor (Graham) Mills. Husband of Martha Frances Newman. Isaac moved with his family as a child to Pike County, AL (sometime after 1833, when his brother Andrew Jackson Mills was born in NC, and before 1838, when his brother James Bunyan Mills was born in Pike County, AL). Isaac and Martha married on 20 Nov 1852 in Pike County, AL.

Isaac served as a private in Company A, 39th AL Infantry Regiment, enlisting on March 11, 1862, and was wounded at Atlanta, GA. He served until the close of the war and was paroled at Greensboro, NC on April 28, 1865.

His obituary from the Luverne Journal, dated June 25, 1914:

MILLS - Uncle Ike L. Mills Sr. of Vidette is dead. He was the oldest and best citizen of that community. Died on Tuesday morning last, aged 80 years. He had been feeble for a long time but there was no reason to suspect that he would die soon. He had been a member of the Baptist church since early manhood and a member of the Masonic Lodge. I. L. Mills Jr. of Conecuh county this state, Jack, Irvin, Randolph and James Mills who live in Texas, and two daughters, Mrs. Curtis Campbell and Mrs. Elisha Davis of this county. His remains were interred at New Harmony church on Wednesday following his death under the auspices of the Masonic Fraternity, Luverne Lodge.
Son of William E. and Eleanor (Graham) Mills. Husband of Martha Frances Newman. Isaac moved with his family as a child to Pike County, AL (sometime after 1833, when his brother Andrew Jackson Mills was born in NC, and before 1838, when his brother James Bunyan Mills was born in Pike County, AL). Isaac and Martha married on 20 Nov 1852 in Pike County, AL.

Isaac served as a private in Company A, 39th AL Infantry Regiment, enlisting on March 11, 1862, and was wounded at Atlanta, GA. He served until the close of the war and was paroled at Greensboro, NC on April 28, 1865.

His obituary from the Luverne Journal, dated June 25, 1914:

MILLS - Uncle Ike L. Mills Sr. of Vidette is dead. He was the oldest and best citizen of that community. Died on Tuesday morning last, aged 80 years. He had been feeble for a long time but there was no reason to suspect that he would die soon. He had been a member of the Baptist church since early manhood and a member of the Masonic Lodge. I. L. Mills Jr. of Conecuh county this state, Jack, Irvin, Randolph and James Mills who live in Texas, and two daughters, Mrs. Curtis Campbell and Mrs. Elisha Davis of this county. His remains were interred at New Harmony church on Wednesday following his death under the auspices of the Masonic Fraternity, Luverne Lodge.


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