Year: 1879

| hicle I refer to, was loaded down with l luggage and household effects generally, until it's wheels fairly groaned under the weight, but it was essential to provide, at the outset almost everything necessary for domestic use, as it might be wholly impossible to procure such while en-route to the promised land.

 The family which was about to com mence this long, and perilous journey, consisted of Elisha Mills, Ga lawyer by profession from Huntington,) and his wife, (a daughter of Dr. Perry's,) two sons, (the eldest, not thea six years of age,) nephew, two hired men, and one hired girl, a party of eight persons in all. Of these, but one is now living in the per son of Judge Vim. Mills, the eldest son, who is at the present time q resident of Yellow Springs, Ga town which he subse- quently founded, Ill the State of Ohio. The event is still fresh in the writer's memory, although sixty years have pass ed since it occurred. The project did not meet with the full concurrence of Dr. Perry, nor with that of other members of his family, but MT. Mills felt confident that his judgment was sound, and that the future would demonstrate the fact that it was so. His " fife was then in her 27th year. (the darling pet of the family, and beloved by all who knew her, yielded

 

 husband, though it was manifest to her that there existed on the part of those from whom she was now about to sepa- rate, sad forebodings, that she would never live to return and so it ultimately proved.

 The hour at last arrived when that sad ord fare,ceU! had to be uttered. With this the whole asSemblage of relatives and kind-hearted neighbors, who had be-

 

 to tears, and as the team moved off the hearts of the aged parents were almost rent in twain with grief. They fingered however, with the rest to watch the heavy vehicle in it's slow descent of the hill, and upon reaching the plain below it gradually faded away in the distance

 Golconda (on the Ohio River, near Cairo) was their place of destination, but on reaching Shawneetown, a few miles above, after a journey of tifty-five days, the noble wife was taken down by malarial fever, and in a short time, after much suffering, breathed her last, and was buried in 8 land of strangers. far away from the home of her childhood, leaving her bereaved husband and their two young children to continue the journey to the new home, which was now to be rendered desolate without her.

 What contrast is this with the modes ol culSIdllOH common at the present day, when all the facilities for travel are. by the great net work of railroads which stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexi- co, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific shores,

 Where rolls the Ore ,on and hears no sound

 Save his own dashngs,'

 with luxurious hotels on every hand, with skillful physicians in the smallest towns even, who can be summoned in case of sickness in shortest time but it is needless to dwell further upon the sub Ject which has been chosen to illustrate to a certain extent the trials and privations to which our ancestors were subjected, when they left their comfortable Connec- ticut tire-sides, to build new homes on the deep and fertile soil of the then far distant region of the mighty West.

 MT. Mills subsequently, removed to Cincinnati and from thence to Yellow Springs where he died at the age of sixty five years. His personal appearance was very striking. being fully six feet in height and well proportioned with large and lustrous black eyes, olive com plexion, and when the writer last saw him, thick crop of white hair that con- trasted well with the color of his skin he moreover dressed with excellent taste, and no stranger upon the Broadway side walks (When he made his occasional vis- its to the city) attracted more attention than he did, but it will be remembered that the great metropolis was not then what 1t now is. a city with one million of exclusive of it's thriving su- burbS. c