History of the name "Millican" - "The Surnames of Scotland" - George Fraser Black (1943) PDF

What follows is transcribed from "The Surnames of Scotland" (1943) by George Fraser Black, under the heading for the surname "Millican".  

I've expanded out the references as they were included in the text and referenced by Black, so that I included the original text as written, with his original sources in paranthesis so as to not require the reader to refer to a bibliography or references for this entry.

The PDF for this book was obtained off Familysearch.org and a link to download a copy of the book is available HERE.

MILLIGAN, MILLILKEN, MILLIKIN, MILLICAN, MULLIKIN.

These names are in Gealic Maolagain, Old Irish Maelecan, a double diminutive of mael (-oc-an), 'the little bald or shaven one,' probably in allusion to the ancient Gaelic tonsure. 

The first form is common in Galloway.  Macrath ap Molegan of Wyggetone, who rendered homage in 1296 (Bain, II, P. 198 - Calendar of documents relating to Scotland preserved in Public Record Office.  Edited by Joseph Bain.  Edinburgh, 1881-84. 4 v. referred to by ) is apparently the first of the name recorded in Scotland. 

As Makerathe Molgan he had his lands restored to him in the same year (ibid., p. 218).  Cymric 'ap,' aftwerards reduced to 'A,' is possibly due to Cymric influence.  

Thomas Ameligane, a witness in Dumfries, 1744 (Edgar, P.227 - An introduction to the history of Dumrfries by Robert Edgar.  Dumfries, 1915.  Written c.1746) may be Thomas Amuligane, chaplain and notary public at Wigtown, 1485 (RMS, II, 1624 - Reistrum magni sigilli regnum Scotorum.  The register of the great seal of Scotland. v. 1-11 (1306-1668). Edinburgh, 1882-1914.  Cited by volume and number of document.)

The name also appears in Perth in 1468 as Milikyn (Milne, p. 58 - The Blackfriars of Perth; the chartulary and papers of their house, edited with introduction by Robert Milne.  Edinburgh, 1893).

George Amuligane was burgess of Dumfries, 1810 (RMS, II, 3513 - Reistrum magni sigilli regnum Scotorum.  The register of the great seal of Scotland. v. 1-11 (1306-1668). Edinburgh, 1882-1914.  Cited by volume and number of document) and a Schir William Amuligan, a cleric, is mentioned in the same year (Bucc. MSS., P. 14 - The manuscripts of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, preserved at Drumlanrig Castl. Londn, 1897 - 1903. 2 v).

Thomas Amuligane, a follower of the Earl of Cassilis, had a respite for murder committed by him in 1526 (RSS., I, 3388 - Registrum secreti sigillum regnum Scotorum.  The register of the privy seal of Scotland. v. 1-2 (1488-1542).  Edinburgh, 1908-21), Cuthbert Amullekyne of Dempstartoune was "dilaitit of the cryme of adulterie" in 1578 (Trials, I, P. 78 - Criminal trials of Scotland, from A.D. 1487 to 1624.  Edited by Robert Pitcairn. Edinburg, 1833. 3 v.), and John Amiligane witnessed a sasine in Dumfries, 1595 (RRM., III, P. 394 - Selections from the records of the regality of Melrose and from the manuscripts of the Earl of Haddington.  Edinburgh, 1914-17. 3 v.)

John Myllikin, a 'vabster ald and puir,' was buried in Dysart, Fife, at public expense, 1593 (Dysart, p. 41 - Notices from local records of Dysart., Glasgow, 1853) another Johnne Amulliekin was hanged in 1612 (Trials, III, p. 223 - Criminal trials of Scotland, from A.D. 1487 to 1624.  Edited by Robert Pitcairn. Edinburg, 1833. 3 v.), and John Mulligane, polentarius (i.e. maltster), burgess of Dumfries, was retoured heir in lands in regality of Lynchludedn, 1630 (Retours, Kircudbright, 183 - Inquvisitionvum ad capellam dominni regis retornatarvm, qvae in pvblicics archivis Scotiae adhve servantver, abbreviatio. 1811-16. 3 v.).

James Myllighame of Blakmyre was retoured heir of his father in lands in parish of Balmaclellane and Dalry, 1633 (ibi., 200).

Robert Mulligane, 'ludimagister' (i.e. master of the play), burgess of Edinburgh, 1649 (Inquis., 3556 - Inqvisitionvm ad capellam domini regis reornatarvm, qvae in publicis archivis Scotiae adhve servantvr, abbreviatio. 1811-16. 3v) is most probably Robert Muligin designated vulgar (i.e. public) schoolmaster who was married in 1656 (Edinb. Marr. - The register of marriages for the parish of Edinburgh. 1595-1750. Edinburgh, 1908-10.).

Thomas Mulliken in Cargat was charged with hamesucken in 1672 (Just. Rec., II, p. 84 - Records of the proceedings of the Judsticiary Court from 1661 to 1678.  Edinburgh, 1905. 2 v.).

Major James Milliken purchased part of the ancient barony of Johnstone, Renfrewshire, in 1733, and gave the estate the name of Milliken (Stodart, II, p. 260 - Scottish arms, being a collection of armorial bearings A.D. 1370-1678, reproduced in facsimie from contemporary manuscripts.  With heraldic and genealogical notes.  By Robert Riddle Stoard.  Edinburgh, 1881. 2 v.).

Robert Andrews Milliken, the American scientist, is of Scottish descent.   Millagain 1684, Milligain 1694, Mulikyn 1480, Mulligine 1668, Mullikine 1662.  There is a name (Mulekyn) in the Exchequer Rolls which might be thought a variant of this.  The bearers of it, however were Italians.  In 1364 there is an entry of payment to Donatus Mulekyn for ornaments for the king (ER., II, P. 160 - The Exchequer rolls of Scotland. v. 1-23 (1264-1600).  Edinburgh, 1878-1908.), and in the thirty-second year of David II (1361-62) James or Jacobus Mulekyn "of Florence," probably a relative, was master moneyer (monetarius) in Edinburgh (ibid., II, p. xciii).

Millicans, Clarks, Freemonts, Oregon Pioneers

Below is a link to a PDF which is an account given by William S. Clark, son of Ransom Clark and Lettice Jane Millican, and grandson of Elijah Ellison and Lucinda Wilson Crisp, Spencer Clark and Betsy Slack, of his father's (Ransom Clark) settling in the Oregon Territory. 

It is taken from this link HERE.

And the PDF is HERE. 

Further information obtained from here reprinted below:

Reminiscences of Charles Webster Clark, oldest son of Ransom Clark and Lettice Jane Millican Clark, later Mrs. Almos H. Reynolds. Written about 1920.

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Millican family came west in wagon train of 1843, led by the Applegate brothers and piloted by Dr. Marcus Whitman.
Children:

• Lettice Jane Clark Reynolds, born 1830
• Melvina Hembree, born 1832 (?, not clean in MS)
• Mary Hill (grandmother of Dorsey Hill) born 1834
• Louisa Dixon, born 1836
• Margaret Millican, born 1838
• Elizabeth Baker (3d wife of Dr. Dorsey Baker), born 1840
• Married 1st, Robert Horton
• Married 2nd, J.W. McCullough
• Married 3d, Dr. Dorsey Baker
• Andrew J. Millican (dates of these births not given, many have followed spacing of other children, 2 years apart)
• born 1842?

Children below not on wagon train:

• William M. Millican, born 1844?
• James Millican, born 1846?
• John Millican, born 1848?

MELVINA married James Hembree about 1847, Lafayette, Oregon

• Children:
• Jim, who dies young.
• John, married Miss Berry. Their children, Dorsey Hill and Bertha Brackett
• Six other children not named

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"I do not remember the year the J.W. McCullough worked for Father Reynolds but think it was in '63 and '64. (His wife was left here and he went to the mines.) Mr. McCullough worked for Mr. Reynolds in the mill here. Robert Horton died in '62 or '63. McCullough then married the widow, but he also died soon.
The Millicans crossed the plains in 1843, starting from Missouri. They came into the Wallla Walla Valley by way of Weston Hill, down to the Walla Walla River. I imagine they crossed Meacham Creek into Thorne Hollow, then to Weston and down to the mission at Whitman. Left there and went to Wallula, having some great experiences going down the Columbia in flatboats. From The Dalles, they went over the mountains by way of Barlow Road. Went directly to Lafayette, taking the first wagon into Oregon. There they took up a Donation claim.
Ransom Clark came also in 1843, but with Lt. John Fremont. John G. Campbell and my father came as partners from Vermont and joined Fremont in Missouri. (From another account: "Most of he company were French and Canadian frontiersmen. At The Dalles he, with two other Americans, left the command and joined the American immigrant train of '43, guided by Dr. Marcus Whitman. Among those in the train was the Millican family, whose oldest child was Lettice, age 13.")
Clark and Lettice Millican were married in Lafayette in 1845. She was 15 years old. They moved to his farm, a mile from her parents. Twins were born on August 12, 1846. Charlie lived, the other died.
Ransom joined the California gold rush and while he was gone, another child, Harry, died at the age of four.
When father came home, the moved to Linn City, Oregon, where he ran a hotel, as a sawmill was being built there. (1853) Later, they moved to Portland. In '55 and '56, he went to the Colville Mines but did not stay long. On his way back, he stopped to look around the Walla Walla Valley, which he had first crossed in '43 with Fremont. He located a Donation claim on Yellow Hawk and Russell Creeks but cecause of Indian troubles, white people were all ordered out of the country. So he went back to Portland where he started in the hotel business again, on the corner of Front and Washington Streets, the name being the Columbia Hotel. A Mr. J.J. Jarvis was in business with him. Part of the time the family lived at the hotel and part of the time in a private home. Will was born there. At that time Charlie was in school at Oswego. He often went to Lafayette to visit his grandparents.
Clark could not get up to his claim until the fall of 1858, after a treaty had been made with the Indians. He hired a man named John Haley to make some fences. Clark went back to Portland until March, '59, then brought Charlie up with him. They came by boat to Lower Cascades, bringing six horses. There they went over the side of mountain to the first station where a transportation line was operating between Portland and the Dalles at that place. (Confused) They portaged from Lower to Upper Cascades. Rode on the steamer Ohio, the captain's name being Smith. At the Dalles they had to wait a week for delivery of fruit trees, etc. Uncle Jack brought down two horses from here and with the horses they were bringing up (6) and these two horses, they finished the trip.
Below Pendleton they stopped at a place run by Mr. Mason. There they ate horse meat, thinking it was elk meat. The first night out, they stayed at Fulton's. Crossed the toll bridge over Des Chutes River. The next camping place was at John Day's, then on Spring Creek, Butler Creek, Umatilla, Wild Horse Creek, then at Pambrun's place on the Walla Walla River. Here Charlie was injured in a fall from a horse. The horse stepped in a badger hole and he was thrown, his foot caught in the stirrup and he was dragged some distance. One joint in his back was knocked out of place. From then on he was called lazy becase he could not rise quickly out of place. (Twenty-five years later he was cured by an osteopath.)
From Pambrun's they came to the claim where John Haley was then living, March 27, 1859.
In May, Clark was called back to Portland because Jarvis was mis-managing the hotel. Charlie received a letter from his father saying he had reached home but nine days later he died of pneumonia. Mr. Jarvis got away with some $3000 of Mrs. Clark's money. Mother left the hotel and went to her parents' home in Lafayette, later came to Walla Walla since Charlie was there alone. She had been warned about danger from Indians but came with the Dent family on the boat. Also rode in the government ambulance. Captain Dent was a brother of Mrs. U.S. Grant. He was commander of Fort Walla Walla and Mother stayed there over night.
When Charlie first received notice of his father's death he could not believe it. At the time he was riding a horse in a four-mile race conducted by Tom Hughes. John Shauns had given Charlie $2.50 to bet on a horse. Robert Horton came to Charlie and told him not to go hoome. A.H. Robie got off the boat at Umatilla and rode horseback to Walla Walla and beat the boat, while Charlie's mother came on the boat. (Evidently her brother William came up the river with her.) Uncle Bill came from the fort next morning to the tent and told Charlie of his father's death.
Mother stayed two weeks. Father had hired Horton at The Dalles and brought him up here. Uncle Bill stayed with us after Mother went back to Portland. Mother went to Lafayette where Lizzie was born and when Lizzie was six weeks old, Mother came up here. From The Dalles she came with John Abbott in his stagecoach. She paid the freight on Abbott's coach from Portland to the Dalles. Abbott later had the goods brought up to Walla Walla on the first stagecoach in 1859. (This seems confused since she came in the stagecoach herself.)

MARY married Henry Hill

LOUISA married Jesse Dixon, 3 children

ELIZABETH maried first, Robert Horton, a Canadian who came to Walla Walla with Ransom Clark in March, 1859, Mr. Clark having employed him in the Dalles. Stayed on Clark Donation claim until fall of '59, went back to Oregon, met Elizabeth Millican whom he married in 1861. In spring of 1860, he rented and farmed the Ransom Clark claim between Springfield Creek (Spring branch, now Colwell Creek?) and Russell Creek. In 1861, bought a farm and married Elizabeth. Double wedding noted elsewhere. Mr. Horton died on this farm (when?). Then Elizabeth married J.W. McCullough who was working for A.H. Reynolds (her sister's new husband) as a millwright. A short time later Mr. Reynolds sent him to run a mill he and D.S. Baker had set up in Uniontown, Oregon. McCullough's health turned bad and in a short time he returned and died. About two years later, Elizabeth married D.S. Baker, whose first wife, Caroline Tibbitts of Portland had died, also his second wife. Miss Tibbitts had a sister, Mrs. Kennedy (Earl's grandmother?) who lived on Park St. (So Henrietta's grandmother and Earl's grandmother were sisters?) I am not sure of this relationship. (N.L.F.)

MARGARET blinded by measles in childhood. Never married.

ANDREW J. (Uncle Jack) left home in 1858 and came up to the Umatilla River, bringing his father's stock. Stayed a year. Had two horses that belonged to Ransom Clark, his brother-in-la, who wished them sent to the Dalles. In 1859, he brought them up to his sister, then a widow. Was always interested in mining. (Later at Thunder Mt., Idaho.)

WILLIAM came to Walla Walla about June 1, 1859 with his sister on their first visit, soon after the death of her husband, Ransom Clark.

JAMES and JOHN both married. No other facts about them.

Irish Millicans, 1800's

I found this on www.irishtimes.com about the Millican name in Ireland.  I thought I would just post this here for now for future reference.

Ida F Walling, John M. Millican, Mary R. Hayward & George Edward Regan

This one's been a bit confusing, hence the inclusion here, but hopefully this straightens out a a few other difficulties in the Millican family tree here in Oregon.


John M. Millican was the son of Elijah Ellison Millican (1805 Georgia - 1887 Lafayette, Lafayette, Oregon) and Lucinda Wilson Crisp (1811, Tennessee - 1876, Lafayette, Oregon).

The Millican donation land claim in Lafayette Oregon can be seen HERE.  It includes the cemetery they are buried in on their property as the Lafayette Cemetery near the top.

census, 1860, Lafayette, Oregon with Elijah and Lucinda Wilson Crisp Millican with George Millican as son

John Millican married Mary R. Hayward on 13 March 1870 in the county of Walla Walla, Washington

from the Western States Marriage Index webpage (http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/search.cfm)

Thereafter, Mary and John were divorced:

And Mary shows up in 1880 with her parents and two of the children, Frank H, and Maude L - note there are two Frank Millicans in Washington, they are cousins, Frank H. Millican was the son of John and Mary, Frank R. Millican was the son of James and Sarah Agee Millican.

Census, 1880, Mary R Hayward Millican with her parents, divorced from John Millican, in Walla Walla, Washington

Ida F. Walling (Feb 1877, Tillamook, Oregon - 11 July 1944) is the daughter of Jeptha Walling (1833-1905) and Bethair Trask (1945-1905).

Ida married John M. Millican in Tillamook, Tillamook, Oregon, 4 Sept 1898 - below is the marriage certificate and affadavit....

Census, John M. and Ida F. Walling Millican, Tillamook, Tillamook, Oregon

John Millican died in 1919 and was buried in the Multnomah Park Cemetery(his death certificate is attached to the memorial).

Ida apparently married George Edward Regan, and they resided in Portland until his death in 1942 when he was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, and she was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon

From the Saturday, 31 October 1942 Oregonian Newspaper

From the Wednesday, 12 July 1944 Oregonian Newspaper

Frank R Millican & Aimee May Boddy Marriage

Frank R. Millican, son of James K. Millican (1843, Missouri - 1888, Washington) and Sarah Agee (1847, Missouri - 1889, Washington) was married in 1906 to an Aimee May Boddy.

In 1905 she shows up in Seattle as being a student at Seattle Seminary in the city directories.  And Frank Millican is buried in Tahoma Cemetery, Yakima, Yakima, Washington as a veteran of the Spanish American War.

However, no further information has been found at the date of this writing about their relationship.

Andrew Jackson Millican, Lafayette, Oregon, Obituary

The following obituary is about Andrew Jackson Millican, from the McMinnville (Oregon) New Reporter, 13 September 1907, page 1, column 5
 

The Masonic Cemetery referenced can be found on this page (Link here)  on his parents' land claim - it is labeled the Lafayette Cemetery but is actually the Lafayette Masonic Cemetery #3 and can be found on Findagrave HERE. 

Elijah and Lucinda Crisp Millican Land Patents, Oregon

Below is a record of the land patent for Elijah and Lucinda Millican, and below that is an approximate area of the land patent, done by hand due to difficulties copying from the Bureau of Land Management website.(Click to enlarge objects)

approximate location and size of Millican property in upper right corner.

The original land patent document (signed by Abraham Lincoln) can be found HERE:

Millicans In Oregon, 1843

This was copied and pasted from the following webpage: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm

Andrew Jackson MILLICAN (1834-1907): s/o Elijah and Lucinda (Crisp) Millican; shown in 1850 Yamhill Co census living with parents

Edmund MILLICAN (c1812-c1895): brother of Elijah Millican; father of 12 children

Elijah MILLICAN (1804-c1887): m'd 1827 Lucinda Wilson CRISP. Elijah settled Linnton in 1843 but moved to Lafayette, Yamhill Co in 1844. He emigrated with 2 wagons he built himself and 5 yoke of oxen. Elijah went to CA temporarily in 1849.  The father of 12 children, he died at age 83yrs.

Elizabeth Hannah MILLICAN (1840-1917): m1. 1861 Robert HORTON; m2. 1867 (Unknown) MCCULLOUGH; m3. Dorsey Sydney BAKER; d/o Elijah and Lucinda (Crisp) Millican

James K. MILLICAN (1843- ): m'd Sarah (Unknown); s/o Elijah and Lucinda (Crisp) Millican

Lettice Jane MILLICAN (1830-1911 ): m1. 1845 Ransom CLARK; m2. Amos Reynolds; d/o Elijah and Lucinda (Crisp) Millican; Lettice met Ranson Clark during the 1843 emigration and was married to him in 1845.  They settled in Yamhill Co where they took up a successful farming operation.  In 1856 Ransom Clark traveled to Walla Walla in present day Washington to secure a land claim.  Mr Clark returned to Portland. but was taken sick on the way home and lived only a couple of weeks. Sixteen years before, Lettice Millican, as a girl of thirteen years, had passed through the Walla Walla valley; now she returned, the widow of Ransom Clark. At Celilo, she boarded the steamer Col. Wright, which was loaded with supplies for Lieutenant Mullah, who was in charge of the construction of the Mullen road between Fort Benton, Montana., and Walla Walla.  Upon arrival at the claim she found the log house finished and farm work progressing, Mrs. Clark returned to Portland, settled her affairs and later, with her two youngest children, one a baby girl six weeks old, left for her donation claim on the Yellowhawk to make final proof. The town of Walla Walla was just starting. The camping place for teamsters packers and immigrants was along Mill Creek, on one side of which the cantonment was built in 1856, so the town was started there by merchants, butchers and saloon-keepers. Split logs were driven into the ground, poles were laid across the top, and canvas or clapboards laid for a roof.
   There were only five donation claims in Walla Walla county. Three of these were taken by Hudson's Bay Company men, one by the American Foreign Missionary Society which included the Whitman site. The Ransom Clark claim was the fifth and was destined to become the scene of splendid endeavor and triumph by a brave young pioneer mother. Her deeds have since been commemorated in a bronze marker embedded m the fireplace of the local Y. M. C. A., also in a marker affixed to a large block of native granite brought from the hills and placed near the northwestern corner of the claim The marker bears this inscription :  "To mark the site of the Ransom Clark Donation Claim and to honor the memory of   LETTICE J. REYNOLDS 1830-1911 A pioneer of 1843 with Whitman's Train       As widow of Ransom Clark this brave woman completed in 1859 under conditions calling.for the greatest courage the claim to this land, initiated by him in1800.   She married Almos H. Reynolds in 1861 and survived him 22 years. She was the ideal pioneer wife, mother, and generous Christian citizen. [This marker was placed by the Narcissa Prentiss Chapter, Daughters Of the American Revolution, June, 1935].

Louisa Allen MILLICAN (1837-c1902): m'd c1858 DIXON, Jesse Downs; d/o Elijah and Lucinda (Crisp) Millican; settled in Yamhill Co where she is enumerated in the 1850 census with her parents and the1860, 1870 and 1880 census with her husband and children.  In 1900 she is living in Tillamook with her daughter, Jane, and her son-in-law S.M. Hayes.  She is shown as a widow at that time.

Mary Adlin MILLICAN (1832 - ): twin of Melvina

Melvina MILLICAN (1832-1916): m'd 1845 James L. HEMBREE; twin of Mary; "Before the emigration of 1843, there were so few white women in the Oregon country that most of the white men took Indian wives. White girls were so much in demand that many of the girls married at the age of 12 or 13 years.... One of my chums was married when she was 12 years old. Mother made me promise not to get married so young, so I waited till two days after my thirteenth birthday before I was married.";
"Melvina celebrated her eleventh birthday on the Oregon Trail.  She was born September 22, 1832, in Arkansas, the daughter of Elijah Milligan and Lucinda [Crisp] Milligan.  Just two years after celebrating her birthday on the trail, Melvina was married to James N. T. Hembree, on September 29, 1845, in Yamhill County, the week after her thirteenth birthday.
      In 1914 Melvina recalled, "Two days after I turned thirteen I married.  My husband was nineteen years old.  When we exchanged vows, I was wearing a new calico dress that Mama made me, regular store-bought shoes, and even stockings.  We took a donation land claim of 640 acres and built a cabin which we moved into at once.  Within the next few days my husband made a bedstead out of fir poles, which he peeled and fastened to the wall.  He pegged them together for we had no nails.  On this bed we laid dried ferns for our mattress.  Our table was a tree split down the middle, and we had two stools.  Pegs were driven into the walls for hats, coats, and clothes. My only dishes were a big iron kettle, a small iron pot, and an iron skillet.  I had to stoop over the mud fireplace in order to cook.  I baked bread in the iron skillet, pot-roasted our meat in the iron pot, baked potatoes in the ashes, and browned wheat or oats for our coffee.  My husband was a great hand to hunt.  He usually turned out about daybreak and would be gone only an hour or two, returning with deer, grouse, rabbit, or the like.  We always had game hanging in the tree near the kitchen door.  The first baby came along.  Others followed.  I took care of the babies, cooked, washed clothes, made soap and candles, knitted and darned and seved and did all the other things that had to be done.  For entertainment we used to go to preachings at the neighboring houses or to barn-raisings or house-warmings.  The kids are grown and we have grandchildren, great grandchildren, and even a few great great.  Next year Pa and me will celebrate seven decades of being together, and that's mighty good."
      The Hembrees lived for many years in Lafayette, Oregon.  They were married seventy years when Melvina died at the age of eighty-three on March 17, 1916, in Lafayette, a longer marriage than any other pioneer of 1843.  In 1910 Melvina and James, his brother Waymon and Waymon's wife Nancy Beagle Hembee, and Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood posed for a photograph and news article as the last five survivors of the 1843 migration.  There were several others alive then, but it made a good story anyway."  [Information provided by Don Rivara; his sources include: [1] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, on-line Family Search; [2]  "Newlyweds," p.8, Pioneers Vol. 11, by Rick Steber, Bonanza Publishing, Prineville, OR, 1993.]

William Mansil MILLICAN (1836- ): s/o Elijah and Lucinda (Crisp) Millican

Albert Gregory Millican Silver Star Citation - United States Navy - USS Helena (CL-50)

Silver Star Citation for Albert Gregory Millican for action on the USS Helena (CL-50) off Guadalcanal in 1942.  His name was misspelled "Milligan" instead of "Millican" in the citation, but this is a scan of a photocopy of the original.

James Thomas and Malvina Ann Millican Hembree Photograph

Headline: Coming to Oregon by Ox Teams in 1843, Five of 600 Pioneers of That Year Are in Yamhill County; Article Type: News/Opinion

Paper: Oregonian, published as Morning Oregonian; Date: 11-02-1913; Volume: XXXII; Issue: 44; Page: 8; Location: Portland, Oregon

Here's their headstone from the Masonic Cemetery, Lafayette, Yamhill, Oregon.

Interestingly he not only outlived his wife, he was considerably older than her too, by a stretch on either side!

Michael David Millican's Funeral

SK2-USN (RET)  Michael David Millican, 14 May 1947 - 20 March 2013.  

Dad's funeral at Willamette National Cemetery, 10 May 2010. 

Millican's, Lipperts, Carrara's (Oh My!) Christmas 1968

These are some photos I found in my father's photo albums of his family when he was home on leave for Christmas, 1968, from Viet Nam.

L-R, Irene Carrara Thompson, Arlene Francis Carrara and mother, Juliet Bernardon Carrara

Arlene Carrara (not sure if this is a self-shot but sure looks like it!)

Arlene Carrara at her Sister Irene's

Myrtle Evelyn Lippert

Albert Gregory & his wife Arlene Hazel Lippert Millican prepping Christmas Dinner

Albert Gregory & Arlene Hazel Lippert Millican

Tom Millican playing with a train-set (Always seemed to be those in our family at Christmas Time)

Lettice jane Millican Clark Reynolds Story (1830-1911)

Birth:	Oct. 3, 1830
Death:	Jun. 10, 1911
Father: Elijah Millican Mother: Lucinda Wilson Crisp Spouse #1: Ransom Campbell Clark Spouse #2: Almos H. Reynolds

(I don't remember the source of this story as I got it when I was new to genealogy but here it is directly from my notes)
Lettice Jane Millican Clark (Mrs. Ransom) whose picture is on the cover, was born in Missouri in 1830.  She came west in 1843 in a wagon train led by the Applegate Brothers.  Her family took up a Donation Claim near Lafayette, Oregon. 

She was married in 1845 to Ransom Clark who had also come across the plains in 1843 with Lt. John C. Freemont's expedition.  They lived in various places in Southern Oregon, among them was Linn County where they operated a hotel.

Later, Mr. Clark located a Donation Claim in the Walla Walla Valley on the Yellowhawk and Russell Creek Rivers, but because of Indian trouble white people were not allowed to settle here immediately, and he died before he had time to prove up on his claim.

After the Indian trouble had subsided, Mrs. Clark with her twelve-year old son Charles, and two younger children came to the Walla Walla Valley from Oregon and took up residence in the log cabin which Mr. Clark had built.  (This cabin is now located in the Pioneer Village section of Fort Walla Walla Museum complex).

Mrs. Clark operated the farm until 1861, when she was married to Almos H. Reynolds and moved into the town of Walla Walla.  At the time of her death in 1911, she was planning to move back into the cabin on Donation Claim. 

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The marriage of Mr. Reynolds was solemnized on the 23d of May, 1861, when he was united to Miss Lettice J. Clark, maiden name Millican, the widow of Ransom Clark, who first crossed the plains to Oregon with Fremont, in 1843. Mrs. Clark was a resident of Walla Walla at the time of her marriage to Mr. Reynolds, and this city still continues to be her home.

She is held in the highest esteem as one of the venerable pioneers of the county. By her marriage to Mr. Clark she became the mother of three cliildren, Charles, born August 29, 1846; William, April 9, 1857; and Lizzie, August 19, 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds became the parents of two sons,Harry A., who was born October 14, 1863, and who is now one of the prosperous agriculturists of the county: and Allen H., of whomm more extended mention is elsewhere made.

Source: Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County (1909) (Public Domain)
Vol I Page 310
Author: William Denison Lyman, 1852-1920
History; Columbia County (Wash.)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., S.J. Clarke Publishing Company 

Tillamook County Marriages - 1896-1900

I found a link to the OR Genweb project with all the marriages in Tillamook for the above listed years.

Of interest to me was the marriage of Martha A. Walling & Isaiah F. Gould (8 Feb 1896) with Martha being known as "Ma Gould" at least in my research on the topic, however this appears to be a result of her first initials "M.A." which can be seen on her headstone.

Thanks to someone who landed on my page dropping me a line (thank you!), I was provided the info for the divorce of Martha & Isaiah in 1902.

Also, I found the marriage of John M. Millican and Ida F. Walling, though I haven't found her grave yet, he is buried in the Multnomah Park Cemetery.

Frank H. Millican

I found an obituary for Frank H. Millican as follows:  

Yakima Daily Republic 7 Aug. 1934 FRANK H. MILLICAN The funeral of Frank H. Millican will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in Shaw & Sons chapel. The Rev. Charles Ghormley will officiate. Pallbearers will be Herman L. Leeper, J. E. Reagan, O. A. Reynolds, R. R. Proudfoot, A. C. Banko and Joe Garreht. The American Legion bugle corps will sound taps at the grave Mr. Millican, pioneer of the Valley, died in the veterans' hospital at Retsil Sunday. 

James K. Polk Millican & Sarah Agee Marriage Dillemma?

I'm working on sorting out whether or not there was another Sarah Agee from Yamhill, Oregon who married a Benjamin Coats, or if in fact she did marry James K. Polk Millican in 1866.  I'm seeing this in www.findagrave.com as well as a bit on ancestry, but my research is outlined a bit in this letter I sent to the findagrave contributor for Sarah Coats - daughter of Isaac Agee: 


I have a question and I'm hoping you might have the research to help me "put this to rest."

I was wondering if you have info that would help me determine whether what I'm looking at is correct or if something's remiss - if there's more than one Sarah Agee from Oregon or whatnot?  I'm still exploring it but thought if I asked someone who might have info I might be able to speed up the process. 

Thanks in advance - sorry if this is confusing, I tried to be as clear as possible.

I do have Isaac Agee (1811-1900, b. Tennessee, d. Oregon) on the 1860 and 1870 censuses out here in Oregon (12 August 1870, Sheridan, Yamhill, Oregon & 6 August 1860, Willamette, Yamhill, Oregon) with a Sarah Agee on the 1860 census being listed as 12 years old in 1860 which would put her as being born probably in 1848 (as the census was taken in August, we're at ~8/12 of the way through the year unless the person answering the door was young and didn't give the right date or the census taker didn't write it down right yadda yadda).

Sarah would have been born in Missouri as Isaac didn't come to Oregon until 1852.  This shows on the 1880 census and the 1860 census.

I have a Sarah Agee and James K. Polk Millican being married in 1866 as listed in the Oregon state Archives as being married in Yamhill, Oregon.   

 I do have an 1870 census for James and Sarah Millican up in Yakima but which lists Sarah as being born in Oregon - typical for a census mistake - but also lending credence in my mind that that is where they were from before moving to Washington and that I'm looking at the right couple.

I then have a James Millican and Sarah Millican (Agee) residing in Yakima, Washington on the 1880 census, also with her birth place being in Missouri, and James being born in Missouri too, which would be correct because the Millicans didn't arrive in Oregon until 1843, coming from Georgia, they would have been in Missouri in 1843 to hit the Oregon Trail and been in Oregon as well both that year.

Yet I'm seeing a marriage of a Sarah Agee, daughter of Isaac, to a Benjamin Coates floating around on findagrave. 

Thanks again, sorry for any confusion.

Tahoma Cemetery - Millicans

I'm doing a bit of work through the Tahoma Cemetery in Washington, Yakima. 

As I enjoy working with www.findagrave.com - I created memorials for all the Millican's who were buried there and did a photo request for their headstones.    Within minutes I had someone who uploaded the photos for me.

These as of 25 March 2012 are the burials in that cemetery.

Name	Age	Death	Burial	Loc	Sec	Block	Qtr	Lot	Row	Map
ANDREW JACKSON MILLICAN	45	03/17/1943	03/22/1943	CEM	IOOF	21	NE	4
DINKIE MILLICAN MULLEN	*		00/00/1900	CEM	IOOF	21	NW	1
EDITH A MILLICAN	85	12/18/1967	12/21/1967	CEM	IOOF	21	SE	5
FRANK MILLICAN	54	02/14/1925	02/17/1925	CEM	IOOF	21	NW	2
FRANK MILLICAN	*51	08/05/1934	08/08/1934	CEM	CITY	125	SE	3
JAMES MILLICAN	46	04/02/1904	04/11/1904	CEM	IOOF	21	SW	2
JOHN E MILLICAN	83	11/05/1959	11/07/1959	CEM	IOOF	21	SE	4
LEE MILLICAN	79	10/16/1946	10/21/1946	CEM	IOOF	21	NE	3
MILLICAN		Empty plot		CEM	IOOF	21	SW	3
SARAH MILLICAN	*			CEM	IOOF	21	SW	1
VERNE JOHN MILLICAN	59	11/25/1971	11/29/1971	CEM	IOOF	21	NE	1

You can find these all on Findagrave.com if you want to.

Multnomah Park Cemetery & Vera Lucille Millican Harrington

I went to Multnomah Park Cemetery today to find my Great-Aunt Vera Lucille Millican Harrington.  Only problem is I couldn't find Multnomah Park Cemetery anywhere online. 

Multnomah Park Cemetery can be found online if you search for "Metro Pioneer Cemeteries" with a locality in Portland, Oregon.

A map of the cemetery can be found here: http://library.oregonmetro.gov/files//multnomah_park_map.pdf

I did find Vera Lucille Millican Harrington's grave at section 8-7 G.   The headstones from the 1930's aren't dated sometimes.  I suppose that's from the depression and all due to the cost of making a headstone.

Vera's find-a-grave memorial can be found here: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47788989

She is buried right next to her brother Percy who is on her left.

A link to the cemetery can be found here: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=12692

Muffenbiers!

I got an Ancestry.com subscription!  However, I don't have the international version subscription.   So my work kind of stops here in the states.

Tonight I worked on the family married to Thelma Marie Millican - now Thelma Marie Muffenbier.  She is the daughter of William and Marie Millican. Apparently, still living out in Boring, Oregon (as in boring a hole, not boring lack of entertainment). 

I remembered that I have a picture of her being married in the 1940's to a Philip Muffenbier - don't ask me how I remember this.  I have no idea how I remember this.  But I do. The clue was she is in my genealogy as Thelma Marie Muffenbier rather than Millican, so I just had to remember the first name.  So I did some searches to confirm what I thought I remembered and VOILA!  I was right.  

So she married a Philip R Muffenbier, though I don't remember the date.  I do know it was in the second world war though because Philip was in his uniform. I believe they got married at St. Agatha's church in Portland.


So here's a few screen shots of my info that I've gotten, including Philip's father Joseph Muffenbier:


 At present I'm unable to locate, according to the 1930 census from Milwaukie, Oregon, for the Muffenbier Family, where their birth took place in North Dakota (according to the census).  I'm finding unofficial records of a wedding in Saskethawan, and saw a hint at a crossing from Canada into the US, but other things I'm finding are saying that Joseph was from Odessa, Russia - so - not sure if he came to Canada and then to the U.S. to Oregon.

Joseph Muffenbier sturgeon fishing in 1960 (somewhere)

Joseph Lawrence Muffenbier with his son Ben

Joseph Muffenbier in his younger years

Joseph Lawrence Muffenbier & Mary L. Somers during their wedding (year?) in Saskatchewan Canada