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Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,

REV. JAMES PRESSLEY McMILLAN, of Burkesville, Ky., is of Irish descent. On his 
mother's side, his great grandfather, James Huie, was born in Ulster Province 
sometime before the middle of the last
century. Coming to this country, he served in the Revolutionary War, and
died in 1828, leaving two sons, Joseph and Robert. Robert was the father of
six sons and two daughters. His elder daughter, Sallie Huie, who was also
his eldest child born in 1805, is the mother of J. P. McMillan. The great
grandfather, James, and also his two sons, Joseph and Robert, with their
wives and many descendants, lie in the same graveyard near Morrow's Station,
Clayton Co., Georgia. Robert, the grandfather, and several of his sons, now
all dead, except two, were ruling elders in the Presbyterian Church; and all
their descendants still adhere to the faith of their fathers; and J. P.
McMillan is not excepted from this statement. Turning now to his paternal
ancestry, we find his great grandfather, Daniel McMillan, in Ulster
Province, Ireland, before the middle of the 18th century. His sons were
Peter and Sam and Archy and James and John - all of whom except the last
came to this country; and of those coming, all except Peter, who was a
minister of the gospel, served in the Revolutionary War. James, the fourth
one of these sons, and grandfather of J. P. McMillan, distinguished himself
at one time by a daring escape from British imprisonment. Buried, with his
wife, his grave is found in Jackson Co., Georgia. His sons were James and
George and Sam. His second son, George, was born in 1805 in Jackson County,
Ga., and was married in 1825 to Sallie Huie, already named, who was born the
same year. They started in life without a dollar, but by industry, economy
and thrift, they acquired a competence which increased and remained with
them down to old age. They had seven children, viz.: Martha Elizabeth,
Robert Huie, James Pressley, Joseph A., Mary Jane, George Washington and
Margaret Ann, -- all living, except Joseph, who died in infancy, and Martha
E., who died in 1879. The three sisters married three brothers, all
well-to-do farmers, the sons of John Orr of Acworth, Ga. Martha married
Joseph Orr; Mary, David Orr; and Margaret, Linn Orr. Robert H. McMillan
lives near Acworth, Georgia,  with his children grown up, and growing up,
around him to honor his unsullied name. George W., educated at Centre
College, Ky., lives at the same place. He has but one child, Mary Lee, for
many years a pupil, and now the principal teacher at Alexander College,
Burkesville, Ky. James P. McMillan, the second son, left his home in 1849.
He spent four years in the academies of Georgia. Thence he came to Danville,
Ky., where he spent three years in Centre College - and three more in the
Theological Seminary, finishing his course in 1859. Thence he spent nine
years in Shelby Co., Ky., as pastor of Olivet Church. He was ordained in
1860; married in 1861; came to Burkesville in 1868 where he built up a
church and founded Alexander College, in which work he has been assiduously
employed for nearly nineteen years. The college buildings cost $15,000; the
endowment is about $7,000; and the institution is still rising on a solid
foundation and extending in usefulness. Its young lady-boarders come from
the entire Southern Country. Mrs. Hattie McMillan, the wife of J. P.
McMillan, is the daughter of Lewis Beatty well known in Shelby Co. Ky. She
was educated at the Stewart Female College in Shelbyville. Her mother's
maiden name was Elizabeth Fullinwider, descended from a long line of German
Ancestry, firm in the faith of the Reformed Churches - in which faith some
of her ancestry and near relatives were able ministers of the gospel. Mrs.
McMillan's maternal grandmother was a Winter and a near relative to
President Lincoln. J. P. and Hattie B. McMillan have only two children,
Bessie Miller and Georgia Ray, aged twelve and seven years, both pupils of
Alexander College and both preparing for usefulness in the work of teaching.
The McMillan family for many generations back has been noted for its
ministers of the gospel and office bearers in the Presbyterian Church.



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