Gary B. Mills, Associate Editor of the National Genealogical Society
Quarterly since 1987, died 25 January 2002 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His burial
was on 2 February 2002 in Shaw, Mississippi. A native of Marshall, Texas, Dr.
Mills was born 10 September 1944.
A well-known historian and author, Dr. Mills had been a professor
of history at the University of Alabama for a quarter century. Dr. Mills was
widely known in both history and genealogy for his trailblazing work on antebellum
free people of color. His many professional publications include the award-winning
Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color; a Bicentennial History
for the Corps of Engineers, Of Men and Rivers, and Southern Loyalists
in the Civil War. He was a longtime board member of the Alabama Men's Hall
of Fame, a past camp commander of Sons of Confederate Veterans, a past chapter
president of Civitans International, and an active member/director of numerous
other historical and genealogical societies.
Dr. Mills is survived by his former wife of many years, Elizabeth
Shown Mills of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Other survivors include his mother, Hazel
Rachal Mills of Biloxi, Mississippi; son, Clayton Bernard Mills and wife Carrie
Starner Mills of Nashville, Tennessee; daughter, Donna Rachal Lennon and husband
John Robert Lennon III of Nashville, Tennessee; son, Daniel Garland Mills of
Indianapolis, Indiana; and grandchildren, Phillip Daniel Mills, Garrett Sean
Mills, Elizabeth Eldorado Lennon, and Ruth Brossette Lennon. Other loving survivors
include three brothers, Richard Hugh Mills of Odessa, Florida; Ronald Garland
Mills of Benoit, Mississippi; Dr. Timothy Harold Mills of Charleston, Illinois;
Dr. Regina Mills Pavlov of Biloxi, Mississippi; and Ramona Mills Adams of Rosedale,
Mississippi. He was preceded in death by his father Harold Garland Mills and
brother Kevin Patrick Mills.
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