Mills, Robert, Mrs. (née JaneEnnis) (Died)

Entered into Rest.
For several months Mrs. Robert Mills has been failing. When she came from her daughter's at Fergus a couple of months ago it was thought she was not likely to live very long. Loving hands ministered to her needs and everything was done to make her declining days as comfortable as possible. She passed peacefully away about noon on Monday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Adam Stewart, Brock Street. Jane Ennis came from Ireland in her early girlhood and was married to the late Robert Mills at Quebec on the 4th July, 1847, when she was 16 years and 4 months of age. They lived in the ancient city for a couple of years but the cholera broke out there and they came to Upper Canada, settling at Weston. Here for ten years Mr. Mills worked the farm of the late Col. Denison. He then removed to Garafraxa and was one of the first settlers in the "Queen's Bush," where he cleared one of the finest farms known there to-day. Twenty-two years ago Mr. and Mrs. Mills came to Acton. Mr. Mills predeceased his wife on the 24th March, 1905. He had attained the great age of 105 years, and was believed to be the oldest Orangeman in Canada, having been iniated at Belfast when a young man of eighteen. For sometime after her husband's death Mrs. Mills lived in her home on Mill Street, but the past two or three years she has enjoyed spending a few months at a time with her daughters. She was a godly woman, a member of the Methodist Church. Her surviving family are: Mrs. Wm. Gurney, Fergus; Mrs. W. Edmiston, Wilcox, Sask.; Mrs. A. Stewart (paper torn) ...at Ospringe and Robert at Boyne City, Mich. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon to Fairview Cemetery Rev. Dr. Antliff officiating.