Clell Miller

Brief Life History of Clell

When Clell Miller was born on 20 November 1893, in Blanchard, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Charles H Miller, was 31 and his mother, Urilla Pickett, was 27. He married Ella Nevels on 17 September 1913, in Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Calamine, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States in 1940 and Wisconsin, United States in 1974. He died on 18 November 1974, in Darlington, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Union Grove, Racine, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clell Miller
1893–1974
Ella Nevels
1894–1994
Marriage: 17 September 1913
Zelma Miller
1913–1982
Lucile Marian Miller
1917–2016
Ila Genevieve Miller
1922–2002
Betty Georgina Miller
1924–1998

Sources (22)

  • Clell Miller, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Clelle Miller, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
  • Clell Miller, "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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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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