Samuel Miller

Brief Life History of Samuel

Samuel Miller was born on 6 February 1811, in Virginia, United States as the son of Daniel Miller Sr. and Esther Kisemore. He married Martha Wicker on 30 March 1837, in Fayette, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 9 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Neoga, Cumberland, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 3 April 1884, in Cumberland, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Zion Chapel Cemetery, Neoga, Cumberland, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Miller
1811–1884
Martha Wicker
1818–1874
Marriage: 30 March 1837
Sarah Easter Miller
1838–1840
Daniel J Miller I
1840–1924
Hannah Elizabeth Miller
1842–1846
Matilda A. Miller
1845–1915
Manerva Elmeda Miller
1848–1848
Susan Louisa Miller
1850–1896
Martha Ann Miller
1852–1863
Maria Catherine Miller
1854–1888
Hulda Elvira Miller
1857–1936
Nancy Jane Miller
1861–1863

Sources (12)

  • Samuel Miller, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Samuel Miller, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Samuel S Miller, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1812 · Monumental Church Built

The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.

1818

Illinois is the 21st state.

1832 · Black Hawk War

The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.

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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