Brief Life History of Ruth Ann
When Ruth Ann Miller was born in 1925, in Alliance, Stark, Ohio, United States, her father, Howard Helman Miller, was 23 and her mother, Minnie Lucille Garside, was 20. She married Nathaniel Boyd Jr. Petty on 25 March 1948, in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in High Point, Ocean, New Jersey, United States in 1977. She died on 20 September 1999, in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.
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Sources (27)
- Ruth M Petty, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ruth Ann Miller, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Ruth Miller Petty, "BillionGraves Index"
Spouse and Children
1924–1992 Male
1925–1999 Female
Children (4)
1949–2009 Female
1950–2021 Male
1953–1977 Female
1956–2015 Female
Parents and Siblings
1902–1979 Male
1905–1998 Female
Siblings (2)
1923–2003 Male
1925–1999 Female
World Events (8)
1927
Age 2
1933
Age 8
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
Age 20
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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