Brief Life History of Simon
When Simon Miller was born on 3 September 1812, in Wayne, Indiana, United States, his father, Daniel Miller, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Petrie, was 32. He married Sarah Elizabeth Earlywine on 5 December 1833, in Rush, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Salem Township, Daviess, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 23 February 1897, in Madison Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hamilton Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer, Missouri, United States.
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- Simon Miller, "United States Census, 1880"
- Simon Miller, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Simon Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
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1816
Indiana is the 19th state.
1816 · Constitutional Convention Held
A constitutional convention was held on June 10, 1816, at Corydon to discuss statehood. Thirty-four delegates, with Jonathan Jennings presiding, passed a resolution to proceed writing the state’s constitution. The constitution was completed on June 29, 1816, and became effective on the same day.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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