Malinda Miller

Brief Life History 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 son and 1 daughter. She died on 9 February 1863, in Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Reuben W. Goodrum
1800–1834
Malinda Miller
1806–1863
Marriage: 15 November 1829
Laura Julia Goodrum
1830–1873
Warren R Goodrum
1833–1840

Sources (3)

  • Malinda Miller, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Malinda Miller -
  • Malinda Miller, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"

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World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1812 · Kentucky Bend Created

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

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.

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