“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

FRANCIS MARION MILLICAN, a prosperous farmer of Dallas county, is 
a son of Benjamin F. and Rebecca (Howell) Millican.  The father, a native of 
Tennessee, removed to Alabama when a young man, settling in Jackson 
county, where he died in 1840, at the age of thirty years.  He was a 
blacksmith and gunsmith by trade, and followed the same all through life.  
The paternal grandfather, Solomon E. Millican, was a native of Ireland, and 
came to America when a young man, settling first in Indiana and afterward 
in Tennessee, where he subsequently died.  Our subject’s mother, Rebecca 
Howell, was a native of East Tennessee and a daughter of Caleb Howell, an 
early settler of that State.  She died in Jackson county, Alabama in 1856, at 
the age of forty-seven years.  Mr. and Mrs. Millican’s children are: Solomon 
E., a resident of Tarrant county, Texas; Caleb, who died in infancy; Susan, 
also deceased in infancy; Francis Marion, our subject; Nancy, deceased in 
infancy; Benjamin F., whose sketch appears in this work; George, who died 
a few years ago in the Creek nation; and Mary, the wife of Joseph Milam, of 
Sebastian county, Arkansas.

The subject of this sketch was born in Grainger county, Tennessee, October 
6, 1832, but was reared in Jackson county, Alabama.  In the fall of 1858 he 
emigrated to Missouri, settling in Newton county, where he enlisted, in 
1861, in the Confederate army, in Company E, Missouri State Troops, under 
Captain Ed. McCulloch.  He served in the Trans-Mississippi department, and 
was with Price on his raids in Missouri, taking part in the battle of Oak Hill, 
Missouri, Elk Horn, Arkansas, Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, and Saline River, 
Arkansas.  Mr. Millican served in the ordnance department, and received a 
gunshot wound in the left thigh at Saline River, Arkansas.  He was twice 
captured, first in Newton county, Missouri, at the opening of the war, and 
next in the Indian Territory, while trying to make his way to the Confederate 
lines.  He was mustered out at Shreveport, Louisiana, June 1, 1865, after 
which he came to Dallas county, Texas, and later went to Tarrant county, 
where he engaged in a mill one year.  He then bought a small farm, of the 
George Burgoon survey, from R. B. Mirrell survey, which he improved and 
sold in 1883, to Ben Croley.  The same year Mr. Millican bought the place 
where he now lives, in Grapevine prairie, near the Tarrant county line, where 
he has 141 acres of black land, nearly all of which is under cultivation.

He was married June 9, 1870, to Martha D. Fergusson, a native of 
Mississippi, and a daughter of William Elkanah Ferguson.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Millican have had eight chil dren, viz.: Joseph E., Walter Lee, Dewitt 
Clinton, Charles Marion, Addie, Martha Lilly, Sallie Frank and Thomas 
Jefferson.  Mr. Millican is a Mason, having become a member of the 
Grapevine Lodge, in 1871-’72, and is also a member of Estelle Lodge, No. 
570, of this county.

Submitted by: Justina Cook