Brief Life History of Merritt Henry
When Merritt Henry Miller was born on 18 December 1845, in Anderson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Marshall Miller, was 20 and his mother, Amanda K Walker, was 19. He married Eliza Ann Frances Edwards on 4 December 1867, in Colusa, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 daughters. He lived in Paskenta, Tehama, California, United States for about 20 years. He died on 9 January 1903, in Lowrey, Tehama, California, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Lowrey Cemetery, Lowrey, Tehama, California, United States.
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Sources (28)
- Merril H Miller, "United States Census, 1900"
- Merrit H. Miller, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Merritt Henry Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Colusa, Calfornia, United States
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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Hurt
Uncle Henry Miller was hurt in a blast, according to Naomi Facht.
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