Brief Life History of Emma Belle
When Emma Belle MILLER was born in May 1870, in Illinois, United States, her father, Albert Miller, was 26 and her mother, Hannah Tolson, was 28. She married Henry Christian Kramer on 21 August 1888, in Lyons, Clinton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Elk River Township, Clinton, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1955, in De Witt, Clinton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85.
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- Emma Kramer in household of Henry Kramer, "United States Census, 1930"
- Emma Miller, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Emma Miller in entry for George Kramer and Wilma E. Carpenter, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
Spouse and Children
1863–1949 Male
1870–1955 Female
Children (6)
1889–1909 Female
1890– Male
1892– Female
1895– Female
1896–1986 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1844–1924 Male
1843– Female
Siblings (8)
1867–1964 Female
1870–1955 Female
1871–1945 Female
1874–1942 Female
1876–1935 Male
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World Events (8)
1871
Age 1
1872 · The First National Park
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1893 · The World's Columbian Exposition
Age 23
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term miller, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner ). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. In North America, the surname Miller has absorbed many cognate surnames from other languages, for example German Müller (see Mueller ), Dutch Mulder and Molenaar , French Meunier , Italian Molinaro , Spanish Molinero , Hungarian Molnár (see Molnar ), Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Mlinar , Polish Młynarz or Młynarczyk (see Mlynarczyk ). Miller (including in the senses below) is the seventh most frequent surname in the US.
South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller ‘miller’ (see Mueller ) and, in North America, also an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also found in other European countries, notably in Poland, Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), and Czechia; compare 3 below.
Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Miler ‘miller’, a surname of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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