Monday, June 23, 2008

Andrew M. Milbourn, son of William and Mary (Stevens) Milbourn. Born in Washington Co, VA in 1802, married Elizabeth Brooks in Washington county, four children: George Brooks, Henry W., Mary and Henry Wynn Milbourn.
Andrew moved to Lee County, VA in 1838 where he acquired much property.
Son George Brooks was born in 1826 in Washington and marrried first to Mary McElroy and after her death he married for the second time to Lavina (Orr) McElroy. They moved to Hunt County, Texas shortly after the VA 1870 census. Lavina died there in 1886 and is buried in the Donelton Cemetery just south of Greenville. George Brooks moved to Butler County, Kansas in 1887 and died there in 1890 at the home of his son John McElroy Milbourn. He is buried in the Chelsea Cemetery along with his sister, Lavina Jane (Milbourn) Pendleton.
John McElroy Milbourn son of George Brooks and Mary (McElroy) Milbourn was born in Lee in 1857 and went to live with his uncle, Richard Milbourn in Hancock, Indiana and was married there to Louisa Isabelle Albertine Caldwell in 1876. They moved to Butler County, Kansas in 1878 and then moved to Torrance County, NM in 1908. Grandpa John died in NM in 1936 and grandma Lou died in 1948 and both are buried in the Estancia Cemetery in Torrance County.
Shirley David Milbourn, son of John M. was born in Butler County, Kansas in 1893 and married my mother Vada Myrl Barron in Torrance County in 1918. They had four children, Marjorie Mae, Lois Louise, John DeWitt and Rex Vernon. Mom was the first daughter of De Witt and Hattie Tillie (Ogle) Barron. De Witt was the son of Green Benton and Amanda Chisum.
John D. Milbourn was born in Torrance County in 1922 and later moved with his parents and brothers and sisters, Marjorie, Lois and Rex to Butler County, Kansas. John moved to Arkansas in 1957.
My children are Nancy Anne, Mary Carol and Craig Robert.

Please let me hear from you.

Sincerely, John Ddd. Milbourn

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