[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 92 (Monday, June 3, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E695-E696]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 RECOGNIZING THE BENJAMIN MILLS CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE 
                  DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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                           HON. JOHN SHIMKUS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, June 3, 2019

  Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize the Benjamin Mills 
Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution.
  During the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Mills served as a private and 
then as a 2nd lieutenant in the Maryland troops. His wife, Elizabeth, 
was also a patriot, having sewn shirts for the soldiers. After the war, 
the Mills family left Maryland to live in Pennsylvania. The family 
moved west, settling in Paris, Kentucky where Benjamin, Sr. died in 
1822. Son Andrew and his family then migrated to Illinois in 1827 and 
settled in the southern part of Bond County, where hundreds of their 
descendants still populate the area.
  On June 16, 2019, the Benjamin Mills Chapter, in coordination with 
the Illinois State Regent, Gloria Perkins Flathom, will dedicate two 
official NSDAR plaques in honor of Camp Ground Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church and Old Camp Ground Cemetery.
  The Old Camp Ground Cemetery was established around 1830. Buried 
there are Revolutionary War soldier Joseph McAdams, Mary Trotter Mills, 
daughter of Revolutionary War

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soldier Joseph Trotter, as well as veterans from the following 
conflicts: 1812, Black Hawk, Indian, Mexican, Civil, Spanish, WWI, 
WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
  The Camp Ground Cumberland Presbyterian Church began as a revival 
meeting of local families, and eventually led to the founding of the 
church at the site circa 1826. The original church building held 
worship services furnished with only the bare necessities, a dirt floor 
and a pulpit.
  Madam Speaker, it is an honor to recognize the Benjamin Mills Chapter 
of the NSDAR as it dedicates these two plaques. The Chapter has been 
active in the Bond County area for over 100 years, and I wish it the 
best as it embarks on the next 100 years of promoting the Daughters of 
the American Revolution motto: God, Home, and Country.

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