Colusa County Biographies

George W. Millsaps

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            George W. Millsaps, who resides on his farm on the stage road 
between Willows and Newville, was born in Main County, Kentucky, June 15, 1822.  
At a tender age he was carried by his family to Howard County, Missouri, and 
shortly afterward to the frontier portion of Randolph (now known as Macon 
County), Missouri.  Mr. Millsaps remembers some of the dangers in that locality 
and early period.  He recalls that in July, 1832, the year of the celebrated 
Black Hawk War, he being then ten years of age, how his father, learning one 
morning that the Indians were approaching, ordered the whole family to hurry up 
and hide in the corn-field till he had ascertained the danger.
            He was married, June 14, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Dunn, a native of 
Cumberland  County, Kentucky, who bore him eleven children.  Mr. Millsaps 
started overland for California, April 18, 1854, arriving in Placer County the 
following August.  He settled where Roseville now stands, but only remained 
there one year, moving to Sacramento and residing there three years.  He came to 
his present home in July, 1858.  Here, on a splendid ranch of two thousand six 
hundred and forty acres of rolling land, he raises wheat, barley, and rye, and 
keeps a large herd of cattle, horses, and mules, besides hogs and sheep.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 403-404