Family:Evan Mills and Mary Logue (1)

Family narrative

These are one of my pairs of great-great-grandparents on my mother's side. Their story together begins upon their marriage in the fall of 1874. This was when the first President of Israel was born, when several dozen black voters were killed in the Alabama Election Massacre of 1874, and was the year barbed wire was invented. Inside the first year of their marriage, son John was born; after that Emily was born three years after; then Frank, one of my great-grandparents, another two years after; then a long eight years before Orville was born.

By 1880, John and Emily had been born, and the family lived in Loudon Township with Evan's sister, Nancy. Nancy's history has not been discovered yet. Twenty years later, in 1900, Nancy was gone. Both John and Emily remained, both now in their 20s, and Francis and Orville had joined the family. A decade on, in 1910, John and Orville, now into their 30s and 20s, respectively, remained single and with the family, while Emily had departed, having married into the Tish family.

There appears to have been a relocation of the family during this period, as by 1900 the clan had moved onto a mortgaged farm in Avena Township, but a decade later they were back in Loudon Township on a farm owned free without mortgage. There is a story here to be uncovered via property and tax records, I think.

Another decade passes, and in 1920 we are only a handful of years before Evan's death in 1923 and Mary's death only a year later. Both Evan and Mary ... not sure if this is the name she went by day to day ... were in their 70s, but they had a no doubt energetic seven year old living with them, grandson Harold, whose parentage remains to be uncovered. By the time of their deaths, Harold would still have been a pre-teen, and it is unclear where he ended up.

This is a not uncommon story of a nineteeth century farming family in the midwest, but the number of children the couple had over their many years is lower than many comparable couples, and one wonders what impact this might have had on their living conditions. There is not an indication that Evan retired from farming, and it might be that we worked up until his death, and that his wife's death followed quickly thereafter as has been observed in many long-married close couples. Elucidating the final years of the couple is another open activity which might never be resolved.

Vicinities

According to the 1900 Census, the family (family # 97) lived in the vicinity of, albeit an unknown distance from, the Family:Henry Logue and Mary Unknown (1) (family # 104). It's unknown whether Katherine Logue and Henry Logue were related to one another, Katherine being 20 years older than Henry.

1880 census

• Blank field omitted: Month born, if born in census year
• Blank field omitted: Married during census year
• Blank field omitted: Number of months unemployed
• Blank fields omitted: Sickness on day of enumeration; Blind; Deaf and Dumb; Idiotic; Insane; Maimed etc.; In school

1900 census

• No specific address information included
• Blank columns omitted: Year of immigration to the United States; Number of years in the United States; Naturalization
• Blank column omitted: Months not employed
• Content columns omitted: Can read English ("yes" all); Can write English ("yes" all); Can speak English ("yes" all)
• the family lived on a farm which they owned under a mortgage; number of farm schedule = 97

1910 census

• No specific address information included
• Marital Status: M1 = 1st Marriage
• Empty columns skipped: Year of immigration to the United States; Whether naturalized or alien
• Content column skipped: Able to speak English - all "English"
• Empty columns skipped: Out of work; Number of weeks out of work
• Content column skipped: Can write English? - all "yes"
• Empty column skipped: In school?
• Owned farm free (no mortgage), farm schedule # 31
• Empty columns skipped: Civil War veteran; Blind; Deaf / Dumb

1920 census

• Content fields excluded: Color/Race "W" (all)
• Blank fields excluded: Citizenship-related fields
• Content fields excluded: Able to read "Yes" (all); Able to write "Yes" (all)
• Blank field excluded: Mother tongue
• Blank field excluded: Father's mother tongue
• Blank field excluded: Mother's mother tongue
• Content field excluded: able to speak English "Yes" (all)

1. ↑ Evan Paterson Mills, in Find A Grave
   30 Nov 2006.

   Record created by Beverly Sweeney and Christine Anguzza

2.   Person:Living Davis (639). Information about Ollie Tish Mills.doc. (CD W/R in possession).
3. ↑ Mary Catherine Logue Mills, in Find A Grave
   30 NOV 2006.

   Record created by Beverly Sweeney and Christine Anguzza

4. ↑ Enumeration District 83, Loudon Township, Fayette, Illinois, in Fayette, Illinois, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   Sheet 3B, dwelling 61, family 61, rows 89 to 91, 7 JAN 1920.

   "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RXV-STH?cc=1488411&wc=QZJR-WYN%3A1036473701%2C1037452601%2C1037268201%2C1589332716 : 10 September 2019), Illinois > Fayette > Loudon > ED 83 > image 6 of 22; citing NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

5. ↑ Loudon Township, Fayette, Illinois, in Fayette County, Illinois. 1910 U.S, Census Population Schedule
   Sheet 2, page B, family 38, lines 87-90, 18 Apr 1910.

   "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRJB-BLS?cc=1727033&wc=QZZ7-GQ3%3A133640201%2C134694001%2C135610101%2C1589088855 : 24 June 2017), Illinois > Fayette > Loudon > ED 63 > image 4 of 26; citing NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

6. ↑ Loudon Township, Fayette, Illinois, in Fayette, Illinois, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   Page 18, family 155, lines 22-26, 16 Jun 1880.

   "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYY-FHC?cc=1417683&wc=X48N-RM9%3A1589399935%2C1589394995%2C1589401848%2C1589395814 : 24 December 2015), Illinois > Fayette > Loudon > ED 95 > image 15 of 36; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)

7. ↑ Avena Township, Fayette, Illinois, in Fayette, Illinois, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   Sheet 6, page A, family 97, rows 6-11., 9 JUN 1900.

   Source Citation: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DRP3-86K?cc=1325221&wc=9BQL-GP6%3A1030552601%2C1032035701%2C1035517301 : 5 August 2014), Illinois > Fayette > ED 11 Avena Township St. Elmo town > image 11 of 41; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Accessed 21 Nov 2021.

8. ↑ Relevant quotation from "Ceyockey/Information about Ollie Tish Mills.doc": "Grandpa Mills’ parents were Elvin P Mills and Katherine Logue Mills. Married in 1874"