Brief Life History of John Henry
John Henry Miller was born in 1908. He married Hellen V Wiley on 15 May 1962, in Covington, Virginia, United States. He died on 31 August 1973, in Clifton Forge, Alleghany, Virginia, United States, at the age of 65.
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Sources (3)
- John Henry Miller, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
- John H Miller, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"
- John Henry Miller Sr, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
Spouse and Children
1908–1973 Male
1914–1995 Female
World Events (3)
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Age 0
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Age 1
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Age 9
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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