Mills County, Texas

Online access to Mills County Newspapers

The University of North Texas has completed digitizing the microfilm and various paper copies of Mills County Newspapers. These include The Mountain Eagle, The Mullin Enterprise, and The Goldthwaite Eagle. These may be browsed at The Portal to Texas History. The earliest issue is 1896.

Mills County Court House, Goldthwaite, Texas

Early photo of 1912 Courthouse on old Letterhead of W.B. Summy County Clerk

Mills county was formed from Brown, Comanche, Hamilton, and Lampasas Counties in 1887.The county was named in honor of John T. Mills, a early Judge, who successively held the judgeship of the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Judicial districts. Mills county Court house is located in Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas. According to the Mills County Historical The town was named for Joe G. Goldthwaite, the railroad official who conducted the auction of town lots. In a 1950 issue of the Goldthwaite Eagle, there is a short biography of Grandma Goldthwaite, the Mother of George Goldthwaite who the town was named after.

John Cormack won the bid to build the court house in 1889 for the sum of $27,000. The courthouse burned on May 5, 1912 and was rebuilt the following year. Luckily, no county records were lost in the fire.

Shirley Runnels sent in this newspaper photo of the First and Second Term Officials of Mills County

Mills County Officials 1890

A World War II memorial was erected on the Mills County Courthouse Lawn and dedicated on May 29, 2017. It lists by name the county residents who served during WWII and indicates those of them who gave their lives. World War II Memorial dedication

This image and coverage of the event with many more photographs was published in the May 31, 2017 edition of The Goldthwaite Eagle, page 10B.

Courthouse/Official Records
You can contact the Mills County Clerk at the following address or phone number:

Mills County Clerk's Office
P.O. Box 646
Goldthwaite, TX 76844-0646
Telephone: (325) 648-2711

Need to find a different County Courthouse or County Clerk's Office, then Click here to find the address of any Courthouse within Texas

Jennie Trent Dew Library Goldthwaite, Tx. 76844 is now on line, Please note that they are not staffed to do genealogical research, but can help if you know the book, page, etc. or they may be able to refer you to some books to research.

However, our neighbor county has "The Comanche County Public Library" which is also on-line, and they have one of the best Genealogy Libraries in the area,

Comanche Public Library

is a must see place to visit or write for the serious researcher and the family Historian, whether researching Texas, Tennessee or other Southern States, This is the place to go to first.

HAMILTON-SOULES HOUSE

The Texas Historical Commission has recorded this house as a Texas Historic Landmark. You can read the marker inscription here.

Mills County Misc. and Loose Records

Mills County Affidavit for Marriage License Records 1893 - 1906
March 3, 1999 with photocopies of selected records

Year 2000 Obituary Listing from Mills, Comanche and Hamilton County Papers

1999 Obituary Listing from Mills, Comanche and Hamilton County Papers

1998 Obituary Listing from Mills, Comanche and Hamilton County Papers, Beginning July 29, 1998

Mills County TXGenWeb Archives - Table of Contents

TXGenWeb Counties A-Z

The TXGenWeb Project County Index

Mills County Look Up Volunteer's

I want to Thank all the Volunteers that are listed on the Mills County Researchers and Surnames page.These Volunteers are willing to look up the resources listed by their names, which include the Mills County Courthouse records for Birth, Death and Marriages, Hamilton County records that pertain to Mills County (Mills County was formed from part of Hamilton County in 1887) Hamilton County Newspaper Coverage. Be sure to stop by and Check out the Hamilton County Genealogy Society Resources. They are a very active Society and have numerous items published and available for purchase.

Mills County Surnames this list is not in the National Surname registry but on this page only. Please use the GenConnect board to have your surnames registered nationally.

FamilySearch.org has the unindexed courthouse records from Mills County, Texas. Mills County Records You will need to create a free account to view the images.

Diana Mullin has prepared a guide to using the unindexed records at FamilySearch. This is an excellent resource.

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Mills County Cemeteries
This List was created for the Mills County TXGenWeb Project use. Mills County TX Cemeteries

Surrounding County Cemeteries
Surrounding Counties Cemeteries-- Near Mills County and/or have Mills County residents buried there

Cemeteries in Texas and Other places

Cemetery Burial Records and Tombstone Inscriptions

This page link's Texas Cemeteries as well as others for Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States (all 50 states, including Texas) Other Countries, plus more

Webmaster: Steve Paul Johnson [[email protected]]

United States Cemeteries
Including the Mills County, TX link and other Texas sites,

Check out his main page link below.
Optima philosophia et sapientia est meditatio mortis Main page. Lots of interesting information about Death, Cultures, Cemeteries for this country and others: © 1996-99 by Klaus Medeke, Germany. [email protected]

FindAGrave

This volunteer contributed website has searchable cemeteries throughout the United States and many other parts of the world. Searching can be by name or cemetery.

Mills County Churches
Here is a listing of the Mills County Churches with schedule of services

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Don't forget to visit the Mills County Historical Commission

and the Mills County Historical Museum websites.

The Mills County Historical Commission cordially invites anyone to attend the regular monthly meetings that are held
on the first Tuesday of each month in the Mills County courthouse at 9:30 a.m.

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