Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Miller was born on 9 January 1832, in Montgomery, Illinois, United States, her father, James J Miller, was 21 and her mother, Sarah Searcy, was 16. She married John Hopwood Bleazard on 16 March 1848, in Winter Quarters, Washington, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. In 1880, at the age of 48, her occupation is listed as keeps house. She died on 5 February 1896, in Fish Haven, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Saint Charles Cemetery, St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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- Copy of James Miller, "United States Census, 1840"
- Mary Jane Miller Hill, "BillionGraves Index"
- Mary Miller in entry for Sylvia Anna Oviatt, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1965"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Life History of Mary Jane Miller
LIFE HISTORY OF MARY JANE MILLER BL(E)AZZARD HILL (condensed from sketch by Stella Johnson Mackelprang, granddaughter) Mary Jane Miller, daughter of James Miller and Sarah Searcy was born 9 Jan …
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