Brief Life History of Phebe Jane
Mrs Phebe Jane Miller was born in August 1828, in Connecticut, United States. She had at least 1 daughter with Jesse B Miller. She lived in Bedford, Bedford, Westchester, New York, United States in 1880. She died on 5 November 1890, at the age of 62, and was buried in Amawalk Hill Cemetery, Somers, Westchester, New York, United States.
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Sources (2)
- Phebe Jane Miller in household of Jesse B Miller, "United States Census, 1880"
- Phebe Jane Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1820–1900 Male
1828–1890 Female
Children (1)
1853–1910 Female
World Events (8)
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Age 1
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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1846
Age 18
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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