Brief Life History of Haley Mahala
When Haley Mahala Miller was born on 20 February 1866, in Bell, Kentucky, United States, her father, Joshua Miller, was 25 and her mother, Rosanna Davis, was 23. She married Comodor C. "Chancy" Benson in 1886. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 11 July 1955, in Canton, Blaine, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Longdale Cemetery, Longdale, Blaine, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Haley Miller in household of Joshua Miller, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Haley Benson - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Haley Benson
- Mahala Miller, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
Spouse and Children
1858– Male
1866–1955 Female
Children (6)
1887–1957 Male
1889–1959 Male
1890–1964 Male
1893–1900 Male
1896–1962 Male
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Parents and Siblings
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1842–1906 Female
Siblings (15)
1861–1862 Female
1862–1862 Male
1865–1954 Male
1865–1869 Female
1866–1955 Female
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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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