Mildred "Millie" Rash

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Mildred Isbell and husband Joseph Rash in Nancy Miller Thompson Smith's 2015 book The Genealogy of the Rash and Hammer Families:

JOSEPH RASH
Born: ca. 1745
Where: Kent County, Delaware (probably)
Father: Joseph Rash
Mother: Mary _____
Married: ca. 1769
Wife: Mildred “Milly” Isbell
Born: 2 April 1750
Where: Orange County, Virginia
Father: James Isbell
Mother: Frances Livingston
Died: 1829 (25 February 1825 - will date)
Where: Wilkes County, North Carolina
Died: 5 February 1812 (probate administration)
Where: Wilkes County, North Carolina Children (continued following).

Joseph and Mildred lived in Fredericksville Parish, Albemarle, Virginia near her father, James Isbell, until they moved first to Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and then to Wilkes County, North Carolina and settled on Beaver Creek.
On November 14, 1781, the Fredericksville Parish records show a processing order for a precinct between the south fork of Pretties Creek, the top of the Little Mountains (the Louisa County line) and the Orange County line, should have indicated the lands of William Sims, James Isbell, Henry Shelton and Joseph Rash. (Note: This may be land that Joseph Rash, Jr. inherited from his father.)
Joseph and Mildred left Albemarle County, Virginia in the mid 1780's. They relocated to Spotsylvania County, Virginia for a while where his brother, William, lived. By 1789 both families had moved to Wilkes County, North Carolina, and settled in the Kings Creek, Beaver Creek area. The Barlow family also moved from Spotsylvania County about the same time. This family was related to these Rashes, as were the families of Warrens, Kelbys and Towleses of Wilkes County.
Their sister Sarah, who married Robert Shepherd, left Spotsylvania County, and moved to Wilkes County, North Carolina by 1776. It is more than likely that their first cousin, Daniel Rash, with his wife, Ruth Muncy Rash, visited them in Virginia in about 1771 when they removed from Kent County, Delaware on their way to Wilkes County, North Carolina. They probably communicated with Daniel Rash, and Sarah with her family decided to join him in Wilkes County.
This family has been misidentified by many family recorders and genealogists. There seems little doubt that Joseph and William Rash were brothers. It has been incorrectly assumed that Joseph Rash was William’s son, but Virginia records prove they were brothers; their marriages and the ages of their children and grandchildren helped to solve the issue.
The estate of Joseph Rash was administered on February 3, 1812 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
John Barlow, Jr., his son-in-law, was the Administrator of the estate. John Ludd (of Reddies River) and John Swaim posted an 800 pound bond as security.
Sale of his personal property was held on March 3, 1812. Purchasers included the widow, Mildred Rash, and her children, Mary and Thomas Rash, her brother-in-law Jonathan Land, who married Elizabeth Isbell, and Elder John Barlow.
In later years Mildred Rash lived with her daughter Mary Tyre, who lived on the Reddies River in Wilkes County. She wrote her will on February 25, 1825, and left her personal property to Mary and two of Mary’s children, Nancy Camberly Tyre and William Burton Tyre.

Children:
1. William Rash was born ca. 1769. He married (1) Celia Laxton, and (2) Elizabeth Ditty. (continued)
2. Nancy Rash was born ca. 1771 in Albermarle County, Virginia. She married John Barlow, Jr. in ca. 1791 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. John Barlow, Jr. was born in 1768, and died in 1857 in Wilkes County. Nancy Rash Barlow died between 1800 and 1802 in Wilkes County.
3. James Rash was born ca. 1775 in Albemarle County, Virginia. His wife is unknown, but he was living in Wilkes County in the 1800 Census alone with an infant son.
4. Perry R. Rash was born ca. 1780. He married Nancy Cash. (continued)
5. Elizabeth “Betsy” Rash was born ca. 1784. She married (1) Abraham Kilby in ca. 1802 in Wilkes County, N. Carolina. Abraham was born ca. 1782.He was the son of William and Mary Ann Kilby. He died in Wilkes County, in 1816. Elizabeth Rash Kilby married (2) William Fletcher on October 10, 1818 in Wilkes County. William was born ca. 1795, the son of James Fletcher of Ashe and Wilkes. Elizabeth and William both died after the 1830 Census in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
Children (all seven children from her first marriage were born in Wilkes County, North Carolina. There were possibly one or two sons from her second marriage):
a. James Linville Kilby was born ca. 1802. He married Elizabeth Vannoy.
b. Sarah Kilby was born ca. 1804. She married Thomas Barlow (Sarah’s first cousin)
c. William Haynes Kilby was born ca. 1806. He married Fanny Rash, his first cousin.
d. Lucinda Kilby was born ca. 1801.
e. Frances Kilby was born ca. 1811. She married John Dancy.
f. Matilda Kilby was born ca. 1813. She married Henry Barlow, half brother of Thomas Barlow.
g. Abraham Kilby was born in 1816. He married (1) Naomi Dancy; (2) Susan Jenkins.
6. Mary Rash born ca. 1786. She married (1) _____ Rash, and (2) William Tyre, Jr. (continued)
7. Thomas Rash born 1791. He married Francis Kilby. (continued)

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Origins

Notable Southern Families by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918), p.110:

James Isbell and Frances Tompkins Livingston "had six sons and four daughters," listed as: "(1) John Isbell, born September 27, 1748. [some think he was John Orrell Livingston, b.c1748, d. Nov. 1824 Caldwell Co, NC.] (2) Milly Isbell, born April 2, 1750. (3) Livingston Isbell, born November 17, 1751. (4) Francis Isbell, born February 12, 1755. (5) Thomas Isbell." (cont. p.111: born June 27, 1753) "(6) Edith Isbell, born November 17, 1756. (7) Mary Isbell, born August 21, 1758. (8) James Isbell, Second, born April 3, 1760. (9) Elizabeth Isbell, born October 19, 1762. (10) William Tompkins Isbell, born September 19, 1765."