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Mary Isetta “Molly” Mills Adams

Birth
Logan County, Illinois, USA
Death
1897 (aged 29–30)
Bates County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Amoret, Bates County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Isetta M. Mills is recorded as age 13 and Mary is recorded as age 11 in the 1880 Aetna, Logan, Illinois census with parents, Elam Mills & Mary, (nee Mary E. Mangold) who married in 1863 in Logan County. (Illinois marriage index)

Elam Mills of Lincoln (Logan County) Illinois, enlisted in July of 1861 in Co. H, 7th Illinois Infantry. The town of Lincoln was named for Abraham Lincoln, who practiced law there. Elam received an invalid's pension in 1865, and Mary E. Mills received a widow's pension in April of 1900, which was filed from Missouri.

Molly Isetta Mills married George H. Adams ca. 1887 and died in 1897 in Bates County, Missouri, according to family information from Ancestry.com. George H. Adams married again 15 Aug 1897 to Mrs. Evalene Beerman. (Bates County, Missouri marriage record) They are listed together in 1910 in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, the second marriage for them both.

NOTE: Some Ancestry family trees list the marriage of Mary F. "Mollie" Mills to George H. Adams in Bates County, Missouri. The 1880 Logan County, Illinois census lists Isetta M. as age 13 and Mary as age 11, and the 1910 census lists George's marriage to Eva as his second marriage.

George Adams, age 45, is recorded in the 1900 Charlotte, Bates, Missouri, census with his wife, Eva S, age 27; his son John D., 11; his daughter, Eva C., 4; His son Walter W., 1; and John, Ida, & Myrtle Beerman, his step-children.

Ancestry.com family information records Molly's burial in Jackson Cemetery, as well as the burial of her mother, Mary E. (nee Mangold) Mills, who died in or about 1905. Mary E. Mills, age 58, was living with the James E. Payne family in the 1900 Homer, Bates, Missouri census, listed as the mother-in-law of James E. Payne.

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1880 census -- parents b. Indiana, all children b. Illinois

Name: Elem Mills
Age: 46
Birth Date: Abt 1834
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1880: Aetna, Logan, Illinois, USA
Dwelling Number: 4
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name: Mary Mills
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Occupation: Farmhand
Cannot Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Elem Mills 46
Mary Mills 36
Ann Mills 16
Hattie Mills 14
Isetta M. Mills 13
Mary Mills 11
Minnie Mills 9
Lusina J. Mills 6
Laura B. Mills 1
Sarah M. Mills 1

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It is possible that this is the indexed record for Mary's marriage.
If so, the surname Mills has been transcribed incorrectly as Miller, which could have happened.

Missouri, Compiled Marriages, 1851 - 1900

Name: G . H. Adams
Spouse: Mary F. Miller
Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1888
County: Bates
State: MO

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Isetta M. Mills is recorded as age 13 and Mary is recorded as age 11 in the 1880 Aetna, Logan, Illinois census with parents, Elam Mills & Mary, (nee Mary E. Mangold) who married in 1863 in Logan County. (Illinois marriage index)

Elam Mills of Lincoln (Logan County) Illinois, enlisted in July of 1861 in Co. H, 7th Illinois Infantry. The town of Lincoln was named for Abraham Lincoln, who practiced law there. Elam received an invalid's pension in 1865, and Mary E. Mills received a widow's pension in April of 1900, which was filed from Missouri.

Molly Isetta Mills married George H. Adams ca. 1887 and died in 1897 in Bates County, Missouri, according to family information from Ancestry.com. George H. Adams married again 15 Aug 1897 to Mrs. Evalene Beerman. (Bates County, Missouri marriage record) They are listed together in 1910 in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, the second marriage for them both.

NOTE: Some Ancestry family trees list the marriage of Mary F. "Mollie" Mills to George H. Adams in Bates County, Missouri. The 1880 Logan County, Illinois census lists Isetta M. as age 13 and Mary as age 11, and the 1910 census lists George's marriage to Eva as his second marriage.

George Adams, age 45, is recorded in the 1900 Charlotte, Bates, Missouri, census with his wife, Eva S, age 27; his son John D., 11; his daughter, Eva C., 4; His son Walter W., 1; and John, Ida, & Myrtle Beerman, his step-children.

Ancestry.com family information records Molly's burial in Jackson Cemetery, as well as the burial of her mother, Mary E. (nee Mangold) Mills, who died in or about 1905. Mary E. Mills, age 58, was living with the James E. Payne family in the 1900 Homer, Bates, Missouri census, listed as the mother-in-law of James E. Payne.

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1880 census -- parents b. Indiana, all children b. Illinois

Name: Elem Mills
Age: 46
Birth Date: Abt 1834
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1880: Aetna, Logan, Illinois, USA
Dwelling Number: 4
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name: Mary Mills
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Occupation: Farmhand
Cannot Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Elem Mills 46
Mary Mills 36
Ann Mills 16
Hattie Mills 14
Isetta M. Mills 13
Mary Mills 11
Minnie Mills 9
Lusina J. Mills 6
Laura B. Mills 1
Sarah M. Mills 1

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It is possible that this is the indexed record for Mary's marriage.
If so, the surname Mills has been transcribed incorrectly as Miller, which could have happened.

Missouri, Compiled Marriages, 1851 - 1900

Name: G . H. Adams
Spouse: Mary F. Miller
Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1888
County: Bates
State: MO

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