Layton Leroy Mills, Sr.
1900 - 1955 (54 years)-
Name Layton Leroy Mills Suffix Sr. Birth 10 Mar 1900 Claiborne Co., TN 
[1] Gender Male Death 23 Jan 1955 Sunshine, Harlan Co., KY [1] Cause: coronary oclusion/arterial sclerosis Burial 26 Jan 1955 Hurst Cemetery, Middlesboro, Bell Co., KY [1] Person ID I50761 Meadow Bluff Meanderings Last Modified 26 Jan 2025
Family Hattie Mabel Collins, b. 13 Nov 1899, Lee Co., VA d. 10 Apr 1982, Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH (Age 82 years) Marriage 21 Jul 1914 Claiborne Co., TN [2] Children 1. Layton Leroy Mills, Jr., b. 12 Nov 1919, Balkan, Bell Co., KY d. 22 Apr 1989, New Lexington, Perry Co., OH (Age 69 years)2. John Guy Mills, b. 13 Jan 1921, Balkan, Bell Co., KY d. 7 Jul 1988, Mount Clemens, Macomb Co., MI (Age 67 years)3. James Edward Mills, b. 25 Aug 1922, Balkan, Bell Co., KY d. 20 Apr 1995, New Haven, New Haven Co., CT (Age 72 years)4. Gerald L. Mills, b. 12 Mar 1926, Balkan, Bell Co., KY d. 4 Jan 1987, Clermont Co., OH (Age 60 years)Family ID F17802 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Jan 2025
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Notes - Son of John and Mary E. (Ramsey) Mills.
The Harlan Daily Enterprise, Harlan, KY, Monday, 24 Jan 1955, p. 1, col. 7
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-harlan-daily-enterprise-obituary-for/163795797/
Layton L. Mills, 54, Dies After Brief Illness
Layton L. Mills, Sr., 54, a former city policeman, died last night at his home in Sunshine following a brief illness. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police, Benham, lodge No. 11; a member of W. M. W. A. local No. 6623.
Mills came to Harlan 19 years ago from Tennessee and was employed with the R. C. Tway Coal Company and Crummies Creek Coal Company for a number of years.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 10 a. m. in the Clover Street Church of God with the Rev. Jeffrey Simpson and the Rev. Peacock, officiating. Burial will be in the Hurst Cemetery in Middlesboro. The body will be taken to the home this afternoon and will remain until the funeral hour.
Survivors include his wife, Hattie, Sunshine; four sons, Layton Mills, Sunshine; James E. Mills, East Haven, Conn., Gerald Mills, Cincinnati; and Guy Mills, Shields.
One brother, William Earle Mills, Knoxville; three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Forester, Chapmanville, W. Va.; Mrs. Stella Watts, Knoxville; Mrs. Bess Huffstulter, Knoxville and seven grand children also survive.
Active pallbearers will be Fielding Hensley, Felix Belcher, Roy Hensley, Bennie Dann, Charles Jones, and Lawrence Thomas. Honorary pallbearers include Jack Howard, Harold Hurst, Charles Buckner, Wayne Beaver, Woodrow Huff, Bill Wilder, Olin Collins, R. C. Collins, Ova Lawson, E. L. Miller, Lee Haynes, Jim Branon, Jimmy Mitchell, P. N. Dizney, and Lee Farmer.
Cumberland Funeral Home is in charge.
- Son of John and Mary E. (Ramsey) Mills.
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Sources - [S1355] Kentucky State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics, Kentucky Death Certificate, (http://www.ancestry.com :2007.), death certificate 55-2497 (1955), Layton Leroy Mills, accessed 23 Jan 2025. (Reliability: 3).
- [S2322] Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780-2002, ((http://www.ancestry.com : 2008)), accessed 23 Jan 2025), Mills-Collins, 1914, Claiborne County; p. 64, no. 340. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1355] Kentucky State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics, Kentucky Death Certificate, (http://www.ancestry.com :2007.), death certificate 55-2497 (1955), Layton Leroy Mills, accessed 23 Jan 2025. (Reliability: 3).