USGenWeb Project NOTICE In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for commercial presentation by any other organization. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. Submitted by: Maxine Reggio BOISE, IDAHO Newspaper John Anderson Mills 1878-1942 John A. Mills, son of Holland and Sarah Mills, was born in Hancock Co., Tn., Dec. 23-1878 and passed away at Boise, Idaho, Dec. 25-1942. When about one year old, he with his parents and brother Charles, immigrated to Missouri by covered wagon. They located near Harrisonville, Mo.,after ten years located east of Drexel, Mo., near Main City, Mo., where John grew to manhood. At the age of fifteen he was converted and united with the Main City (Methodist) church. At the age of twenty-one he attended business college at Kansas City. While there he attended and united with the First Baptist Church. John's gift was a wonderful bass voice. He could have commercialized on his voice, but refused, believing it was a sin to commercialize on "God's gift." He completed his education at William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. He went to Idaho, staked and proved on a claim in the Sage Brush country, near Caldwell, Idaho. He then came back to Missouri, and took as his bride Miss Minnie Davidson, daughter of Rev. Franklin Davidson, then residing near Harrisonville, Mo. John and Minnie took God to their Sage Brush Idaho home, and with their music, teaching and preaching, they made it a community fit to rear their children, also the families of other settlers who were each year moving in. Five children, four boys and one girl were born in the Sage Brush home. Later, that their children might have the advantage of college, they moved near Boise, Idaho, where John passed away. For sixty-four years John was building a throne for himself, he has been called to occupy that throne, and now he waits to welcome us one by one as God calls. ( this obit note in the local newspaper was written by Laura, his sister)