Ann Provence 41
- Born: WFT Est 1788-1811 41
- Marriage: William Millican WFT Est 1805-1845 in Illinois 41
- Died: Abt 1870, Mississippi, Missouri aged about 82 41
- Buried: Piney Grove Cemetery Booneville, Mississippi 41
General Notes:
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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 45, Ed. 1, Tree #0493, Date of Import: Jun 5, 2002]
Following from "Moore - Millican Memoirs" by Elma Lou Maxwell:
Ann Provence Millican was a life-long frontier nurse (called a practical nurse today), before but especially during the trying days of the Civil War, when in her eighties she was the only assistance that the community had in time of sickness. She was at the birth of all the older Tom Millican children. She had her own horse and saddle and would go day or night to assist anyone in any way that she could in the relief of suffering until she was more than 90 years of age.
Ann married William Millican WFT Est 1805-1845 in Illinois.41 (William Millican was born WFT Est 1779-1808,41 died about 1858 in Mississippi, Missouri 41 and was buried in Piney Grove Cemetery Booneville, Mississippi 41.)
Marriage Notes:
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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 45, Ed. 1, Tree #0493, Date of Import: Jun 5, 2002]
Following are excerpts from "Moore - Millican Memoirs" by Elma Lou Maxwell 1966. Clint Maxwell has a copy of this sent to him by Mary Ann (Topper) Maxwell in the late 1960's.
Millican and Provence families migrated to Southern Illinois just before, or shortly after, the Revolutionary War.
In time the William Millican family moved Southward to Northern Mississippi. Their two older sons, names unknown, remained in Illinois and later joined the Union Army in the Civil War. This caused a division in the family that was never rectified, and the two parts of the family lost touch with each other thereafter.
Tom and John, the two younger boys, joined the Confederate cause and survived the Civil War, but Tom was severely wounded at Petersburg, Virginia. He lost a leg and almost died, and was out of touch with his family for three years while they did not know if he was even alive.
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