This week’s Photo of the Week is a picture of my great-grandmother Arabella Jane (Mitchell) Mills. She was born October 4, 1871 in Oyster Pond, Halifax County, Nova Scotia – the daughter of Colin Mitchell and Nancy Hurley.
In 1892, she married Isaac Gaetz Greenough. They had two children, including a daughter who died in childhood. Isaac died in 1896 at the age of 24. In 1902, she married Thomas Edward Mills (my great grandfather). The family lived in Gays River, Colchester County.
Thomas was killed in the First World War, and she moved the family back to her home in Oyster Pond. She died on Christmas Day, 1942.
I don’t know who the baby is in this picture. I’m assuming it is a grandchild.
Robert Finch Genealogy 