Elizabeth Miller

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Miller was born in 1757, in Augusta, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Jacob Miller Jr, was 28 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Fudge, was 30. She married Adam Caperton about 1770, in Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1848, in Madison, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 91.

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Family Time Line

Adam Caperton
1753–1782
Elizabeth Miller
1757–1848
Marriage: about 1770
John Caperton
1772–1830
George Caperton
1777–1836
Mary Caperton
1783–
Elizabeth Caperton
1778–1821
Hugh Elmwood Caperton
1781–1847

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    1775

    "Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."

    1776

    Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

    1781 · The First Constitution

    Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

    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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    Story Highlight

    Jacob Miller Jr (ca1726-ca1808), his wives Elizabeth Fudge (died 1777) and Margaret Sullivan (died after 1805), and his children

    Jacob Miller Jr was a frontiersman and an Indian fighter, a miller who wore knee pants and stockings in the Colonial style, a man who could build a house and make, it is said, almost any tool. Acco …

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