Elvira Pamela Mills
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Elvira Pamela Mills was born in Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, 2 March 1820. She was the older of the two children of Robert Mills and Rhoda Hulet. Her brother Fred was bron 7 December 1825.
In 1844, when the Prophet was killed, Fred was working for Father Cutler sawing lumber for the Nauvoo Temple. They did not come west with Brigham Young. As a soldier in the Civil War, Fred was captured and imprisoned in Awful Andersonville, where thousands died of poor food, exposure, and disease. The prison was a fenced field with guards to shoot anyone who stepped too close to the fence. There, by a miracle a spring broke out on top of a hill, the only place where water would not be contaminated by contagious disease. After the war, he married Hattie Helsar. Their two sons never married. ----- - included in family records owned by Stuart Benjamin Quist
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