Family

I am privileged to live in the same house with my parents, Sam and Jill; my two younger brothers, Jason and Austin, and my grandmother, Martha McMillan, affectionately called "Mama Mac".  We have all lived together since the fall of 1987 when I was in the second grade.  Jason is now a junior majoring in marketing at Clemson University in Clemson, SC and Austin is a senior at Mullins High School.  Austin plans to attend the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC next fall.

Daddy's three brothers--Van, Gib and George--also live in Mullins with their families.  There are a total of 11 McMillan grandchildren, seven boys and four girls.  We all attend Mullins Presbyterian Church and count 20 among us when the entire McMillan clan is together.  (If you think this is a big family, you don't know that many great-uncles and aunts and their families also live in Mullins.)

The McMillans arrived in Wilmington, NC from Scotland about 1771 and my great-great-great grandfather moved to Marion County in 1839. Although active in the community through their churches, schools and civic activities, the McMillans continued to farm until 1992.  My father now works for the US Department of Agriculture in Florence, SC.

Mama was reared in Abbeville, SC.  My Grandmother, JoAnn McKown Horton, lives in Greenwood now, but two of Mama's brothers--Dudley and Mark--continue to reside in Abbeville.  Mama's youngest brother Christopher lives in McBee, SC with his family.  There are a total of ten Horton grandchildren, five boys and five girls.  My mother teaches first grade at North Mullins Primary School and coaches the high school girls tennis team.  The Hortons and the McKowns were both from Tennessee where my Horton grandparents both grew up.  The moved to Abbeville in the early 1950s where Granddaddy set up Horton Insurance Company.

Both of my parents are active in our church, and Daddy serves as Chairman of the Mullins School District Board of Trustees.  My parents met in Columbia, SC on a blind date when they were both in college--Mama at Columbia College and Daddy at the University of South Carolina.  They married in 1977 and have always lived in Mullins.

I have been dating Lisa Cameron since February 1999 a few months after we met.  Lisa graduated from Wofford College in May with a B.A. in art history and history and is currently enrolled in the M.A. in the History of Art at the University of Warwick. 

I am named for my father, Samuel Davis McMillan, and my maternal grandfather, Harry Lucas Horton.  Lucas is the maiden name of my great-grandmother, Lena Lucas Horton.  Like Granddaddy Horton, Uncle Christopher has Lucas as his middle name, but I am the first member of the family to actually go by the name of Lucas.

In 1997, the State of South Carolina designated the section of US Highway 76 that runs from the city limits of Mullins to the Little Pee Dee River as “McMillan Highway.”