Thomas Mills (1763 - 1864) b. Sept. 29, 1763, in Long Island, N.Y. He moved to South Carolina with his father and older brother and signed up with Lt. Col. Francis Marion during the Revolutionary War. Mills was only 12 or 13 years old at the time. He served with the 2nd South Carolina Regiment and Marion's group, the Swamp Fox Soldiers, from 1776 to 1779. He later traveled to Tennessee, Kentucky, and and Ohio where he was a scout and Indian fighter. He met Daniel Boone and knew Simon Kenton well. In 1786, Mills was among several families who petitioned the Commonwealth of Virginia to establish the towns of Washington and Limestone, later known as Maysville. Mills married Lydia Wilson in 1786; they had several children before she died. Their son Edward was born in 1805. The following year he married Lydia Cachel, 12 March 1806. They moved from Clermont Co. to Chevoit and Mill Creek in Hamilton Co. He had a total of 13 children. He served in the Corn Stalk Militia between 1791 and 1799 and fought in the War of 1812. The family left Mill Creek in 1835 and eventually settled at Bullitsville, in Boone Co., Kentucky, where he died.

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"Dedication in Honor of Thomas and Lydia Mills, Oct. 20, 1990, Hebron, Kentucky" Compiled by Fern H. Taylor. Farmington, IL: 1990.
Kentucky Post 27 May 2002