William Miller

28 April 1791–24 January 1857 (Age 65)
Greenup, Greenup, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of William

When William Miller was born on 28 April 1791, in Greenup, Greenup, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Miller, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Foust, was 30. He married Elizabeth Billups on 23 May 1811, in Gallia, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States in 1820 and Fayette Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 24 January 1857, in Greenup, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 65.

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Family Time Line

William Miller
1791–1857
Elizabeth Billups
–1864
Marriage: 23 May 1811
Rebecca Miller
1812–1902
Nancy Miller
1815–1913
John Miller
1815–1883

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    23 May 1811Gallia, Ohio, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1792
    Age 1
    Historical Boundaries: 1792: Mason, Virginia, United States 1795: Mason, Kentucky, United States 1804: Greenup, Kentucky, United States
    1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
    Age 3
    The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
    1810 · Change of capital city
    Age 19
    Zanesville becomes the new state capital.

    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 (4)

    • Wm Miller, "United States Census, 1840"
    • William Miller, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
    • William Miller, "United States Census, 1830"

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