Thomas B. Mills
Thomas B. Mills, farmer, Jamestown, Greene County, is a son of John Mills, who came from Kentucky to Greene County in 1796. In a short time he removed to Warren County, and in 1809 returned to Greene County, where he still lives, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.
Our subject was born in Greene County, January, 1817, and has been twice married. March 14, 1839, he was wedded to Miss Rhoda Horney, who bore him ten children, and died in June, 1865, in the forty-eighth year of her age. On the 16th of January, 1868, he married Mrs. Louisa (Sheely) Sesler, of Greene County. By this union there are two children. Of the twelve children nine are living.
His son, James, served three years in Company K, 44th O. V. I. William served three years in the same company and regiment, and then re-enlisted in the cavalry, and served one year there. Both came out of the service without a wound.
Mr. Mills has a farm of forty-six acres, situated near the west line of this county.
His second wife was previously married to Martin Sesler, who died August, 1865, of a disease contracted in the army.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County