Sarah Miller

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Miller was born on 31 July 1796, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States, her father, Valentine Miller, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Conard, was 28. She married Benjamin Strickler Taylor on 28 July 1830, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Mad River Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States for about 20 years. She died on 31 January 1880, in Champaign, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Myrtle Tree Cemetery, Nettleton, Mad River Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin Strickler Taylor
1805–1854
Sarah Miller
1796–1880
Marriage: 28 July 1830
Sarah Ann Taylor
1832–1915
Darius Taylor
1835–1894
Simeon Taylor
1838–1914

Sources (8)

  • Sarah Taylor in household of Benj S Taylor, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Sarah Miller, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Sarah Miller Taylor, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1812 · Monumental Church Built

The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

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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