Brief Life History of Josiah Abner
When Josiah Abner Miller was born about 1816, in Beat 4 Mount Carmel, Covington, Mississippi, United States, his father, James Miller, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Warren, was 21. He married Mary Patience Smith on 31 July 1837, in Avoyelles, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 15 August 1882, in Woodworth, Rapides, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Woodworth, Rapides, Louisiana, United States.
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Family Time Line
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- 1840 √ - Josiah Miller, Henry Miller & Basil Smith, "United States Census, 1840"
- 1837 √ - Marriage of Josiah Miller and Patience Smith
- 1882 √ - Josiah A Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1816–1882 Male
1818–1901 Female
Children (11)
1838–1865 Male
1840–1865 Male
1842–1863 Male
1844–1917 Male
1847–1910 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1785–1856 Male
1796–1862 Female
Siblings (10)
1814–1866 Male
1816–1882 Male
1818–1850 Female
1819–1890 Male
1821–1865 Male
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World Events (8)
1817
Age 1
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 3
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 20
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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