Eighth Generation

8735. John Anderson Mills was born on 23 December 1878 in Hancock Co., TN. John died in Boise, Ada Co., ID on 25 December 1942 and was buried at Cloverdale Memorial Park in Boise, Ada Co., ID in December 1942 .²⁷⁰³⁵

Obituary, The Idaho Daily Statesman, 27 Dec., 1942

John Anderson Mills 1878-1942 John A. Mills, son of Holland and Sarah Mills, was born in Hancock Co., Tn., Dec. 23-1878 and passed away at Boise, Idaho, Dec. 25-1942. When about one year old, he with his parents and brother Charles, immigrated to Missouri by covered wagon. They located near Harrisonville,Cass, Mo.,after ten years located east of Drexel, Mo., near Main City, Mo., where John grew to manhood. At the age of fifteen he was converted and united with the Main City (Methodist) church. At the age of twenty-one he attended business college at Kansas City. While there he attended and united with the First Baptist Church. John's gift was a wonderful bass voice. He could have commercialized on his voice, but refused, believing it was a sin to commercialize on "God's gift." He completed his education at William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. He went to Idaho, staked and proved on a claim in the Sage Brush country, near Caldwell, Idaho. He then came back to Missouri, and took as his bride Miss Minnie Davidson, daughter of Rev. Franklin Davidson, then residing near Harrisonville, Mo. John and Minnie took God to their Sage Brush Idaho home, and with their music, teaching and preaching, they made it a community fit to rear their children, also the families of other settlers who were each year moving in. Five children, four boys and one girl were born in the Sage Brush home. Later, that their children might have the advantage of college, they moved near Boise, Idaho, where John passed away. For sixty-four years John was building a throne for himself, he has been called to occupy that throne, and now he waits to welcome us one by one as God calls.

(This obit note in the local newspaper was written by Laura, his sister)

John Anderson Mills and Minnie May Davidson were married on 9 August 1908 in Freeman, Cass Co., MO.^27036,27037 Minnie May Davidson was born on 28 June 1882 in Brownsville, Linn Co., OR. Minnie died in Boise, Ada Co., ID on 8 November 1952 and was buried at Cloverdale Memorial Park in Boise, Ada Co., ID in November 1952 .²⁷⁰³⁸

Obituary, The Idaho Statesman, Sat., Boise, ID, Nov. 8, 1952

Mrs. Minnie Mills, Boise, Succumbs

Mrs. Minnie Mae Mills, 70, died at 10 a. m. Friday at her residence, 2303 Hartman street.

She was born June 28, 1882, at Brownsville, Ore., and was married to John A. Mills, Aug. 9, 1908 at Freeman, Mo. They moved to Caldwell and lived there until 1921 when they moved to the Ustick area. Mrs. Mills lived there until Mr. Mills' death in 1942 when she moved into Boise.

Mrs. Mills was a member of the First Baptist church.

Surviving are four sons, Earl of Glenns Ferry, H. Paul and Raymond Gordon Mills, both of Boise, and Eldon N. Mills, Berkeley, Cal.; a daughter, Miss Jewell Elinor Mills, Berkeley; five brothers, Earl Davidson of Hannibal, Mo., Franklin Davidson of Harrisonville, Mo., Ernest Davidson of Kansas City, Mo., Lewis Davidson of Springfield, Ill., and George B. Davidson of Stockton, Cal.; a sister, Miss Ruth Davidson, Holden, Mo.; her step-mother, Mrs. Nellie Davidson, Holden, and eight grandchildren.

Services pend at Summers chapel.

John Anderson Mills and Minnie May Davidson had the following children: