Elizabeth Ferguson Miller

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Ferguson

When Elizabeth Ferguson Miller was born on 3 September 1842, in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Stewart Miller, was 37 and her mother, Mary McGowan, was 39. She married James Mack or McCracken on 15 January 1858, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 9 January 1928, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Smithfield City Cemetery, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Mack or McCracken
1836–1915
Elizabeth Ferguson Miller
1842–1928
Marriage: 15 January 1858
Sarah Elizabeth Mack
1858–1864
James Miller Mack
1860–1924
Mary Ellen Mack
1862–1956
Serepta Lucretia Mack
1865–1951
Henry M Mack
1867–1930
Charles William Mack
1869–1940
Ada Jane Mack
1871–1957
Lettie Mack
1874–1874
Margaret Mack
1874–1875
Moses Miller Mack
1876–1949
Olive Pearl Mack
1879–1881
Glen Head Mack
1882–1920
Wanda Mack
1886–1964

Sources (32)

  • Elizabeth Mack in household of James Mack, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Elizabeth F. Miller, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Elizabeth Ferguson Miller Mack, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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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