Lucy Miller

Brief Life History of Lucy

When Lucy Miller was born on 10 January 1837, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States, her father, Henry William Miller, was 29 and her mother, Elmira Pond, was 25. She married Oliver Lee Robinson on 26 November 1854, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died on 20 April 1877, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Oliver Lee Robinson
1833–1886
Lucy Miller
1837–1877
Marriage: 26 November 1854
Joseph Oliver Robinson
1855–1855
Lucy Maria Robinson
1856–1941
Loren Jay Robinson
1859–1942
Oliver LeGrand Robinson
1860–1948
Eugene Delacy Robinson
1862–1888
Alice Almira Robinson
1864–1946
James Henry Robinson
1865–1954
Sarah Jane Robinson
1867–1953
Annie Amelia Robinson
1870–1939
Helen Moselle Robinson
1872–1874
Lillian Estella Robinson
1876–1960

Sources (97)

  • 1860 United States Census for Lucy Maria Miller Robinson in household of Oliver Lee Robinson
  • 1837 Illinois LDS Membership Birth of Lucy Maria Miller daughter of Henry William Miller & Elmira Pond, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • 1856 Salt Lake Endowment House Marriage of Oliver Lee Robinson & Lucy Maria Miller

World Events (8)

1839 · Nauvoo is Settled

After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized

Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.

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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