When Ida E Patterson was born on 25 June 1842, her father, David Baker Patterson, was 26 and her mother, Cornelia Miner Sheffield, was 27. She married John H Miller on 12 November 1864, in Grant, Wisconsin, United States. She lived in Rush Township, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Amsterdam, Hancock, Iowa, United States in 1900. She died on 5 June 1916, at the age of 73, and was buried in New England Cemetery, New England, Hettinger, North Dakota, United States.