Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Biography of Rev. Franklin C. McMillan
  (Apr. 6, 1823-Jul. 10, 1912, buried in Ridge Park Cemetery in Hillsboro, TX.)
  
Source - A Memorial and Biographical History of Hill County, Texas
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892

pages 262-263

FRANKLIN C. McMILLAN, has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and is the
owner of a fertile farm of 214 acres, of which 100 acres are in an excellent
state of cultivation, well-improved with a substantial and commodious 
residence and good barns, granaries, etc.  Mr. McMillan was born in Washington
county, Georgia, April 6, 1823, and is a Texas pioneer, having come to this
state in 1849, first settling in Freestone county.  August 28, 1845, Miss
Mary J. Simmons, who was born in 1834, became his wife at the unusually early
age of eleven years, and four years later with his young wife he set out to 
seek his fortune in what was then the wilds of Texas.  He purchased 160 acres
of land, which he greatly improved and on which he lived for thirty years, 
after which he sold out and took up his abode on his present farm in Hill 
county.  His efforts have been attended with success, and he and his worthy
wife are now enjoying the fruits of their early labor.  They have had a married
life of forty-six years and have reared a large family of children: Sallie, 
wife of P. H. Burkhatter; Benjamin; Jackson; Stanley; Thomas; Mabel, wife
of Benjamin Young; George Marvin; Taylor; John; Carrie, and Joseph and Bennett
who died in infancy.  Mr. McMillan has been a devoted Christian almost all of
his life, having joined the Methodist Episcopal Church when a young man.  He
was ordained a minister of the gospel twenty-seven years ago and the chief 
object and aim of his wife has been to do good and to aid others.  He has
lived to see all of his own children, as well as his sons and daughters-in-law
and their children who have attained years of discretion, converted to Christ,
and his own precept and example has had much to do in bringing about this
desirable result.  He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and during the Civil
war was in the State militia for three years.  His parents, who were married 
in 1805, were Archibald and Penelope (Manning) McMillan, their births
occurring in North Carolina, in 1781 and 1790 respectively.  The father removed
to Georgia when a young man and for several years followed the blacksmith's 
trade, after which he turned his attention to farming.  He died in 1869, at
the age of eighty-one years, his wife's death having occurred in 1856, at the 
age of seventy years.  They were the parents of seventeen children, only four
of whom survive:  James; Catherine, wife of David Corn; John K. and Franklin C.
The latter's wife is a daughter of Sterling Simons, a native of Georgia, in
which State he was married to Miss Sallie Heard, with whom he moved to Florida
and afterward to Texas, settling in Freestone county in 1852.  Here he spent 
the remainder of his days, dying in 1883, at the age of eighty-two years, his 
wife passing form life in 1865.  Four of their nine children are still living:
George; Mary J., (Mrs. McMillan); Taylor and Joseph.