Born: April 4, 1922
Died: December 23, 1982, Plattsburgh
Elsie McMillin (nee Rockefeller) was the daughter of William A. Rockefeller III. She inherited her father's Bay Pond estate with her two siblings after her father committed suicide. She was shot by her second husband, Miles McMillin, in a murder-suicide at Bay Pond in December of 1982. She died at the hospital in Plattsburgh on December 23, 1982. She is buried in St. John's Cemetery in Paul Smiths.
Wife of Former Editor Dies of Gunshot Wound -- New York Times, December 24, 1982
Elsie Rockefeller McMillin, who was shot by her husband on Tuesday at her home on a Rockefeller estate in the Adirondacks, died yesterday at the Champlain Valley Medical Center-Physicians Center in Plattsburgh, N.Y. She was 58 years old.
The state police said Mrs. McMillin had been wounded by her husband, Miles J. McMillin, 69, who then killed himself. Mr. McMillin, a former editor and publisher of The Capital Times in Madison, Wis., had been suffering from cancer.
Mrs. McMillin, who was married to Senator William Proxmire, Democrat of Wisconsin, from 1946 to 1955, was the daughter of William Avery Rockefeller, a grandson of William Rockefeller. William Rockefeller was associated with his brother, John D. Rockefeller, in the organization of the Standard Oil Company.
Mrs. McMillin is survived by four children, Theodore S. Proxmire of Washington, Elsie Proxmire Zwerner of Norwich, Conn., Miles McMillin Jr. and Nancy McMillin of Boston; her mother, Florence Lincoln Farr of New York; two brothers, William Rockefeller of Rye, N.Y., and Frederic Lincoln Rockefeller of Barrington, R.I., and two sisters, Florence Sloan Series of France, and Anne Sloan Morrison of Colorado Springs.
