Mourning Stone

• Birth Notes
  • On Ambrose Mills, B: 1722 he came very young to Maryland, lived a short time on the James River. Va. His first wife died in War with the Indians, 1756-61. He married a second time to a Miss Brown, South Carolina, She daughter of Colonel Brown, Chester, So. Carolina. He is related to Gov. Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi.
    
    According to what I found of that reference, Ambrose and Miss Brown had the following children: William II, Jane, Amanda, and two other children, no names given, but one child married Honor Moor, Second child no name given, but married to a Nancy Jones, Virginia. She is named in a will of the last born son of Ambrose Mills. With Ambrose and first wife, they had William, Major in Army, already gave you those details. Sarah married Asa Edney, named their son Marville Mills Edney, he became a Doctor. According to this information he married his cousin, 7th child of Mourning Mills B 1803 Eliza Eleanor Lewis. Second child of Ambrose and Mourning Mills, Eleanor, she has connections to Washington County. Colonel John Mills, Washington Co., also Rutherford, North Carolina connections. Married Sallie Robertson, Washington County connections. Marville Mills, has also Washington County connections. First Elizabeth daughter, married 1793 Rev. Sam Edney, born 1768. Died 17 Sept. 1844, Washington County connections. Daughter Phalby Mills, married Col David Myers. William II, born after 1761, married Eliza Durant, Amanda married Adolphus Mills,
    This information was in a Washington County history, but I did not write down the exact reference, that is, what library I found it in.
    
    http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MILLS/2004-06/1087514519
    

• Death Notes
  • Pine Tree Hill
    
    Birth:    1725 in James City, Williamsburg, VA
    Death:    1756 in Pinetree Hill, Camden, SC
    Sex:    F
    Father:    Thomas Stone b. About 1700 in James City, Williamsburg, VA
    Mother:    Alexander Brown b. About 1700 in James City, Williamsburg, VA

• General Notes
  • Individual:
    Said to have been killed by Indians in SC in the Indian Uprisings of 1756-61
    
    Ambrose Mills SR (Husband) b. 1722 in Derbyshire, England
    Marriage:    Abt 1745 in VA
    Children:    
    
       1. William Mills b. 10 Nov 1746 in James River, Albermarle, VA