Malinda Miller

27 June 1806–1863 (Age 56)
Nelson, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of Malinda

When Malinda Miller was born on 27 June 1806, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Stephen Warren Miller, was 22 and her mother, Lucinda Saxon, was 17. She married Reuben W. Goodrum on 15 November 1829, in Claiborne, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in 1863, in Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 57.

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Family Time Line

Reuben W. Goodrum
1800–1840
Malinda Miller
1806–1863
Marriage: 15 November 1829
Laura Julia Goodrum
1830–1873

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    15 November 1829Claiborne, Mississippi, United States
    • Children

    (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1808
    Age 2
    Atlantic slave trade abolished.
    1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
    Age 6
    During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
    1825 · The Crimes Act
    Age 19
    The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

    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 (2)

    • Malinda Miller, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
    • Legacy NFS Source: Malinda Miller -

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