Milly Yarborough was born in about 1759. A resident of Chatham County, North Carolina at the time of the Revolution, she lived with her father and several brothers. Several of her brothers, including Nathan and Benjamin all enlisted in various regiments during the American Revolution. Milly was left home with her father to help manage the household. Various depositions make mention of how Milly Yarborough sewed and cleaned her brothers' clothes, including Nathan's military uniform and equipment. By the 1830s when she made sworn affidavits in support of her brothers' pension claims, she was still living in Chatham County and presumably unmarried, as she kept the last name of Yarborough. She died sometime after 1833.