Mrs. Rebecca A. Milhollin was born at Springfield, Ohio, April 20, 1816, and died at Blaine, Wash., Feb. 11, 1906. Five of her seven children and her husband have died before her and she is survived by her sons, James H. and John H. Milhollin, both of this city.
She was married to William Milhollin in 1833 and moved with him to Minnesota in 1853. They made their home near the present site of the state university on the banks of the Mississippi river in what is now Southeast Minneapolis. Her husband died in 1871. In 1886 she came to Blaine and for the second time braved the trials of the frontier and again witnessed a commonwealth grow up. The funeral services were at the home Tuesday and the interment in the Blaine cemetery. The pallbearers were R. A. Wilson, C. A. Loomis, B. N. Kingsley, J. Merrill, H. Mahan and E. Sorenson.
