William Cloud Mills, known by many in Barber County as "Uncle Billy," was born
  in East Tennessee (now Hancock County), January 6, 1829. He married Hannah Louise
  Ogan, also of East Tennessee, in 1954.
     They had eleven children: the first born, Emily, died in infancy. Orville (Tonk),
  Govan, Susan, Francis and Elizabeth were born in Hancock County, Tennessee. Celia,
  Peter Barnett, Mary Anise and Barbara Alice were born in Cass County, Missouri,
  near Peculiar. Lura Jo was born in the log cabin in Barber County, shortly after
  the family came to Kansas in 1887.
     Billy was a captain in the Confederate Army, serving under General Early. When
  the war ended, he went directly to Missouri, making arrangements for a home there. 
  He sent word to his wife to meet him in Kentucky. She left their home in East
  Tennessee in a vocered wagon with their then five children; a milk cow was tied
  to the tailgate.
     In 1876 he came to Kansas to look around and made a deal for a home fourteen
  miles west of Medicine Lodge. The family moved to bArber County in 1877. They were
  unable to move into the log cabin, bacause the Winnie family from whom the land
  was purchased could not move out for several weeks. Mills moved into a dwelling in
  Lake City until the Winnies could give possession.
     The log cabin in which they were to make their home was made of native cedar logs,
  with the doors of native cottonwood. The spaces between logs and other cracks were 
  filled with plaster made from native gypsum. There were three rooms downstairs and
  one large room upstairs. With the four children born in Missouri, there was a family
  of eleven to live in those four rooms. Water was carried from a well which was about
  30 feed down a gentle slope from the cabin.
     Uncle Billy was a cattleman as well as a dealer in good mules. He trailed many
  cattle from Texas to Barber County and the Oklahoma Territory. He was in partnership
  with Nick Sherlock and they established large numbers of cattle. He was also accumulating
  land on Bear and Dog Creek as well as the Medicine River. He 1889 he sold his interest
  in cattle and land to his two older sons, Govan and Tonk, and moved his family to
  Medicine Lodge, where he did some trading in real estate. Mills and Sherlock built
  the large brick building that housed the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges on South Main,
  it is still standing.
     Uncle Billy was a member of Delta Lodge A.F. and A.M. of Medicine Lodge. His wife
  Hanna Louise, was a member of the Christian Church.
     Having a strong desire to get back in the cattle business, in 1893 he bought property
  andmoved to Lispscomb County, in the Texas Panhandle.
     Uncle Billy passed away August 27, 1896 and his wife in June, 1911. Both are buried
  in Lipscomb County Cemetery.
     The children of William Cloud and Hannah Louise Mills married largely in Kansas and
  Texas. Orville (Tonk) first married Mary Haevlin who died, his second wife was Lora
  McColl. Govan married Margaret (Maggie) Hittle. Both established homes near Lake City.
     Susan married Thad Cutlip, they later moved to Oklahoma. Francis married Brough
  Wilkins, who for many years had a grocery store in Medicine Lodge. Elizabeth married
  Charlie Bowen and they ranched south of Booker, Texas. Celia married Henry Barton; they
  run cattle west of Lipscomb, Texas. Mary Anise married Ben F. Tepe; they live in 
  Canadian, Texas, where Ben owned a large lumberyard. Barbara married Charlie Duke who
  died, she later married Dick Duke. Lura Jo married Alex Barton, they ranched west of 
  Libscomb, Texas. Peter Barnett married Pearl Bowen and they ranched south of Booker,
  Texas.
     
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 331