Margaret S Miller

17 October 1860–7 January 1952 (Age 91)
Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, United States

The Life Summary of Margaret S

When Margaret S Miller was born on 17 October 1860, in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, her father, Phineas Janney Miller, was 27 and her mother, Caroline E Dray, was 25. She married Edgar Seymour Cheaney on 26 July 1888, in Menard, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Petersburg, Menard, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died on 7 January 1952, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Petersburg East Number 13 Precinct, Menard, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edgar Seymour Cheaney
1858–1914
Margaret S Miller
1860–1952
Marriage: 26 July 1888
Edgar Miller Cheaney
1889–1895
Caroline D Cheaney
1890–1980
Herbert Houghton Cheaney
1893–1971
James William Cheaney
1895–1988
Francis Gale Cheaney
1897–1898

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    26 July 1888Menard, Illinois, United States
    • Children

    (5)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

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    World Events (8)

    1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
    Age 1
    Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
    1863
    Age 3
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1885 · The First Skyscraper
    Age 25
    The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Millar
    Mueller
    Milner
    Millward
    McMiller

    Sources (15)

    • Margaret S. Miller Cheaney in entry for Sarah Carol Cheaney, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
    • Margaret S Cheaney, "United States Census, 1920"
    • Maggie S Miller in entry for Edward S Cheaney, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"

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