James Mills
James Mills was born in Maryland. He was in the Ohio River country of Kentucky by 1824, when the Meade County Court replaced him as surveyor of the road running from Bowers Ferry toward Elizabethtown, and in May 1827 he sat on a criminal jury at Brandenburg with Benedict Greenwell, James F. Clarkson, John English and nine others, and acquitted a man of assault and battery. His farm lay on the north side of the Flint Island road, cornering on Rawleigh Colston's 25,000 acre survey and on land that Benedict Greenwell would buy in 1850.
He married a woman named Anna, born in Maryland like himself, and by the count of the deeds that later divided his estate they had at least two sons and eight daughters. The daughters married into the families that filled that stretch of river country: Brown, Durbin, Greenwell, Allen, Rhodes and Popham. One of them, Martha Jane, married Andrew J. Greenwell in 1844 and her death certificate sixty nine years later is what preserves her father's name and his Maryland birth.
He died intestate before 3 December 1838, when his widow came into the Meade County Court and took administration of his estate. His land was not divided until the Meade Circuit Court decreed a sale at its November term of 1856, in a suit brought by Charles H. Greenwell against James J. Mills and others. Thomas J. Gough, the commissioner, advertised and sold the parcels on 8 January 1857, and the deeds he executed that spring name every one of the heirs. The date of his death, his age and his burial place are recorded nowhere read.
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