P1F2B: THE “MILLS” GROUP:

This group is descended from Lilburn Coffee, who was born in Tennessee in 1821. Family stories said that he was actually a “Mills”, who was adopted by a Coffee family, and the y-DNA results proved that to be absolutely true! FTDNA reported that Lilburn’s descendants had matches to the Mills Surname Project, but none with any other Coffey Project members.

 

This is the family line that belongs to Jack Coffee, the editor of the CCC Newsletter 2012-2016. And he explains how his line came about in the following:

 

CCC Newsletter #131, Editor’s note, Pages 14 & 15: