John William Miller

23 February 1808–19 June 1890 (Age 82)
Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of John William

When John William Miller was born on 23 February 1808, in Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Stephen Warren Miller, was 24 and his mother, Lucinda Saxon, was 19. He married Malinda Ann Brookshire on 11 December 1828, in Claiborne, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Fort Bend, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 June 1890, in Richmond, Fort Bend, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Fulshear, Fort Bend, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

John William Miller
1808–1890
Malinda Ann Brookshire
1811–1880
Marriage: 11 December 1828
Newton Miller
1829–1850
Joshua Saxon Miller
1831–1833
Celestina Miller
1833–1853
Leonora Miller
1835–1927
Lucinda Miller
1837–1870
Hellen Miller
1843–
Stephen Warren Miller
1846–1911
James David Miller
1850–
William Seth Miller
1853–

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    11 December 1828Claiborne, Mississippi, United States
    • Children

    (9)

    +4 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1812
    Age 4
    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
    1824
    Age 16
    Historical Boundaries: 1824: Province of Texas, Mexico 1836: Austin, Republic of Texas 1841: Fort Bend, Republic of Texas 1845: Fort Bend, Texas, United States
    1830 · The Second Great Awakening
    Age 22
    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Millar
    Mueller
    Milner
    Millward
    McMiller

    Sources (7)

    • John W Miller, "United States Census, 1860"
    • John W Miller, "United States Census, 1850"
    • John W. Miller, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"

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