San Saba County Historical Commission

McMillin Cemetery

Woods Family

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Footnotes:

N. D. McMillin (Number 13 in Row 8): Newton Dickens McMillin came to the central part of Texas in the early 1850’s and settled along the Colorado River in the northeastern part of an area that would become San Saba County. The community he established was named for him—McMillin. He helped in the organization of San Saba County in 1856. He gave land for the McMillin School and cemetery. (See N. D. McMillin family article on pages 104 and 105 in Vol. II of San Saba County History 1856-2001).

Vollie Ann McMillin (Number 14 in Row 8): Vollie Ann was born Dec. 9, 1841 in Hardeman County, Tennessee, to Jefferson Warren and Elizabeth Owen. The family moved to Travis County Texas in 1847 and later to the McMillin Community (San Saba County) in 1855. At age 17 Vollie Ann married Jerry Robinson. They had two children. Jerry was killed in the Civil War. Vollie Ann’s second marriage was to N. D. McMillin on July 26, 1864, and to this union were born nine children. (For more of her life see A Pioneer Woman’s Story by Marilyn Johanson, great-great granddaughter of Vollie Ann McMillin.)

N. H. Robinson (Number 12 in Row 8): Nathaniel Hawthorn Robinson was born January 26, 1860 in Bastrop County, Texas. The son of Vollie Ann Warren and her first husband, Jerry Robinson, and the step-son of Newton Dickens McMillin, he was killed by Indians in Cochise County, Arizona and is buried in the McMillin family plot in the McMillin Cemetery.

J. N. McMillin (Number 10 in Row 8): J. Newt McMillin, was the son of N.D. McMillin and Vollie Ann Warren, born February 22, 1876, and died January 16, 1877.

M. B. McMillin (Number 11 in Row 8): Minnie B. McMillin, the daughter of N. D. and Vollie Ann McMillin, was born in 1882, and lived less than a year. She is buried beside her brother, J. Newt.

Sarah F. Miller (Number 9 in Row 11): Sarah Francis McMillin, the daughter of N.D. and Vollie Ann McMillin, married Daniel Miller.

Daniel Miller (Number 10 in Row 11): Daniel was the son of Hugh Miller, Sr. (Number 14 in Row 9) and Sarah Ann Miller (Number 15 in Row 9).

Sarah Ann Warren (Number 6 in Row 14): Sarah Ann Elizabeth Nunn was born in 1839 in Warren County, Georgia, the daughter of Francis M. and Elizabeth W. Nunn. The family moved to Texas in the 1840’s and settled in Bastrop County. She married Henry Clay Warren in 1858, and they made their home near his parents, Jefferson and Elizabeth Warren, in the McMillin community in San Saba County. They had four children, Sarah Jane, Margaret E., Benjamin F. and Martha Ann Sophronia. Sarah Ann died at age 25 and was the first burial in the McMillin Cemetery.

Mary Melissa Stallcup House (Number 5 in Row 14): Melissa Stallcup was born Sept. 26, 1846. She married James Tate House. They were the parents of Edward Byron House. Melissa died February 23, 1873, and was buried with an infant son in an unmarked grave in the McMillin Cemetery.

Edward Byron House (Number 4 in Row 14): and Sophia McMillin (Number 3 in Row 14) were married August 12, 1888, at the home of Sophia’s parents, Capt. N.D. McMillin and Vollie Ann Warren McMillin. They made their home in the McMillin Community which was named for Sophia’s father. (For more on the E.B. House family history, see pages 72, 73, and 74 in Vol. II of San Saba County History 1856-2001.

Hughie Miller, (Number 6 in Row 11): Hugh Miller, born Oct. 31, 1906, Emmett (Number 7 in Row 11) born April 19, 1904 and Vera (Number 8 in Row11) born Jan. 14, 1902, all died on Oct. 11, 1915 of diphtheria. Hughie and Emmett are buried in the same grave. Vera is buried in a separate grave alongside her brothers.

Mary Jane Nichols (Number 2 in Row 11) was drowned along with Jimmie I. Landers on May 29, 1884, when the boat capsized as they were being rowed across the Colorado River at Shaw Bend to attend school in Rye Valley. Mary Jane was the daughter of James F. and Mary A. Nichols. Jimmie Landers was buried in the Shaw Bend Cemetery.