Brief Life History of John
When John Miller was born in 1787, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Andrew Miller, was 34 and his mother, Martha, was 27. He married Sarah Reed Sutton on 10 October 1813, in Broad Ford, Connellsville Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Dunbar Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 March 1865, in Dunbar, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Franklin Cemetery, Dunbar, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- John Miller, "United States Census, 1860"
- JOHN D. MILLER, "BillionGraves Index"
- Miller, Peter & John, heirs of Andrew Miller, Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G991-M4C7?cc=1999196&wc=9PM6-FM3%3A268497501%2C268534301
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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1795
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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