Family:Henry Milhous and Rebekah Cook (1)

    Henry Millhouse was born in the parish of Timahoe, county of Kildare, Ireland, 1st of 5th month, 1736, O. S. At what date he came to America and settled in Union County, S. C., no record is left to tell; neither do the records say that he was married before or after his coming to America. Again, as to whom his wife was, where she was born, or when they were married, the records are as silent as the graves where for years they have lain. The records do make mention of her death, 11th of 8th month, 1803, and her burial on the Tiger River, in that State, at the age of sixty-four years; and further, the records say, " She was a loving, and affectionate wife, a tender mother over her children, endeavoring to bring them up in the fear of the Lord, sobriety and plainness; was in the station of an Elder for several years before her death; a careful attender of meetings for worship and discipline." Henry and Rebecca Millhouse had in all six children-Mary, 5th month, 2d, 1763; Rebecca, 11th month, 8th, 1767; Sarah, 3d month, 25th, 1770; Ann, let month, 24th, 1772. The dates of the births of Robert and Dinah are not given.
    About the year 1800, David Whitson married Mary, the eldest daughter of Henry and Rebecca Millhouse. About the year 1791, Robert Millhouse married Sarah Compton. Rebecca Millhouse, in 1793, married Amos Compton, a brother to Sarah the wife of Robert Millhouse and of these Comptons there are no earlier records. Dinah Millhouse, in 1796 or 1797, married Stephen Compton, a brother to Amos and Sarah, who had already married into this family. Ann Millhouse, about the same year, married Amos Hawkins, a brother to James Hawkins, and Sarah Millhouse, in 1793, had married Mordecai, a son of James and Sarah Spray.      
    In 1806, Henry Millhouse, with his son Robert and his family, consisting of wife and seven children, his sons-in-law and their wives and families, in all twenty children, started by way of North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, for the land beyond the Ohio River, he then an old man, upon whose aged head seventy winters had left their marks of time. Leaving for the last time, as he then well knew, the grave of his wife, the mother of his children, taking up the path through the wilderness to the new land in the far Northwest, compare him, if you will, to another old patriarch whose journey was a similar one. They landed at Waynesville.
      On the lands purchased by Henry Millhouse he settled his children, as follows: Amos Hawkins, on the southwest corner, or upon the farm where his son Henry lived out a long life, and died but a few years ago; David Whitson, adjoining Hawkins on the north. or upon the farm now owned by Milton Keys; Mordecai Spray, east of Hawkins; Robert, where William Icenhour lives, and himself between there and Mordecai Spray. Amos and Stephen Compton settled in Warren County.     [The above frompage 654-6, History of Clinton County by A. H. Harlan] [1]

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    The following is a copy of the letter from Henry Millhouse to his daughter and and her husband Amos Hawkins.

Caesars Creek, Ohio State - Warren County - the 24th of 8 month 1805

Dear children:

    I wrote to you soon after I came her, thinking it best to inform you that we arrived here safely in 5 weeks & 5 days.

    Had a good deal of wet weather and very bad roads, and most of us were something unwell at times, but I have been favored with health on the road and since I am here - for which great favor I hope to be thankful.

    It is much more difficult than what I expected to get land here near to any meeting of friends. Your uncles, Eli Cook and Benjamin Hawkins and several other friends from Carolina & Georgia have formed a new to settlement about 30 miles to the west of Waynesville and have requested the privilege of holding meetings among themselves. I have lately been there as one of the committee appointed by the monthly meeting for that service, and I expect their request will be granted.

    I have lately purchased 540 acres of land at 2 1/4 dollars per acre, about 8 miles to the eastward of Waynesville on Caesars Creek, too far from the meeting at Waynesville but as there are several families of friends here away, we expect erelong to request for a meeting among ourselves. Dear children, if you move to this country, do not overload as the road is exceedingly bad. What earthenware or pots or tinware you have if you could get the value for them - it would be better to sell them except what you would want on the road. Such things being - or to be had at Cincinnati as cheap or nearly so as in Charleston, which is but about 48 miles from this place.     

(Signed) Henry Millhouse ...............................