1 June 1900 Ottis is a 19 year old living with his family in Acoma, McLeod County, Minnesota. Living with him is Alfred, 46, Gertrude R., 46, Joseph, 13, Martin L., 11 and J. Paul, 4, all born in Ohio.694On 20 June 1905 he married Edna G. Bell in Cedar Mills, Minnesota. By 1907 they had moved to Bayfield, Wisconsin where their first child, Donald, was born. On 15 April 1910 Otis Mills, 28, born in Ohio, whose father was born in Ohio and mother in England was a farm operator in Bayfield Township, Wisconsin. He had been married for 5 years to Edna, 27, born in Minnesota, and lived with her and Donald, 3, and Ernst, [sic] 1 month, both born in Wisconsin.699On 1 January 1920 Otis J. Mills, 38, born in Ohio, lives in Bayfield Township with Edna E., 37, Donald O., 12, Everett L., 9, and Fern E., 5. He is a truck farmer born in Ohio, with his father born in Ohio and mother in Minnesota. 698On 1 April 1930 Otis G. Mills, 48, born in Ohio lived at Box 591, Star Route, Bayfield, Wisconsin with his wife, Edna, 47, born in Minnesota and Everett, 20, and Fern, 15, both born in Wisconsin. Otis father was born in Ohio and his mother in England. Interestingly, while Otis is listed as owning the property, the value of $2500 is assigned to his wife Edna. Did she own the homestead, or was this a census takers error? 697
“Otis G. Mills was a long time resident of the Town of Bayfield where he farmed. Mills died July 4 at Kirkland, Wash. at the age of 92. He was born in Pittsfield, O., May 12, 1881. He moved at an early age to Hutchinson, Minn. He and Edna E. Bell of Cedar Mills, Minn. were married on June 20, 1905. The couple came to Bayfield soon after, to settle on the Murray place west of the city. Twice they bought farms to get closer to the city. Mills built three houses in which the family lived successfully. Edna Mills died in 1947. Mills then sold the farm and lived with one or another of his children, mostly in the northwest. Surviving are a daughter, Fern Sweeney of Kirkland, Wash., and two son Everett L. Mills, Gresham, Ore. and Donald Mills, Ophie, Wash. Cremation and preliminary services were held at Seattle. Graveside burial ceremonies are tentatively planned for Friday [August 3] at the Bayfield cemetery.”717
The “Murray place” on the 1906 plat book is NE ¼ of Section 18, T50N R4W. By 1954 the land is owned by Bayfield County.

Her parents were both born in Minnesota.697 She was living in Cedar Mills, Minnesota when she married Otis Mills. 717In 1910 she had two children, both living.699