MILLER Family History, Part II

January 2009

Children of Philip Jacob MILLER3 (1726-1799)

11HB. Daniel MILLER (Sr.)4 was born on April 8, 1755 in Frederick or Washington County, Maryland. He married Elizabeth (Cripe) ULRICH in 1774 in Frederick County and fathered 10 children:

11HBA. Stephen William MILLER 7 Mar 1775 13 Jan 1851 (75)
11HBB. Jacob A. MILLER 20 Nov 1776 1858 (81)
11HBC. Daniel MILLER (Jr.) 30 Jul 1779 Bef. 1822 (<42)
11HBD. David MILLER 30 Jul 1781 1 Dec 1851 (70)
11HBE. Samuel MILLER 17 Mar 1785 27 Nov 1867 (82)
11HBF. John B. MILLER 15 Dec 1787 11 Jun 1856 (68)
11HBG. Isaac MILLER5 8 Dec 1789 Aug 1822 (32)
11HBH. Susan B. MILLER (1790)    
11HBI. Abraham MILLER 5 May 1794    
11HBJ. Elizabeth Poe MILLER 8 Apr 1796 8 Nov 1871 (75)

Daniel Sr. was most likely born in the western third of Frederick County, Maryland which was later established as Washington County in 1776. This region was settled by German immigrants who came by way of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the late 1720's.

The MILLER family moved from the area of Frederick and Washington counties north and over the Allegheny Mountains to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, likely in the early 1780's. Daniel's father sold his estate and moved to Campbell County, Kentucky in 1795 and then about the time of Ohio statehood in 1803 Daniel moved north from Kentucky to the area of Montgomery and Preble counties near Dayton in western Ohio. Daniel's next younger brother David also followed the same migration and settled in Montgomery County by 1800.

Daniel MILLER, Sr. died in Randolph, Montgomery County, Ohio on August 22, 1822 at the age of 67. He is buried at Sugar Hill German Baptist Cemetery near West Alexandria in Preble County, Ohio.

Elizabeth (ULRICH) MILLER, the daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth ULRICH, died 12 years later in September 1834. She was about 77 years old.

11HC. David MILLER4 was born on either December 1, 1757 or January 17, 1758 in Frederick County (likely present-day Washington County), Maryland. He married Magdalena Abigail MAUGANS2, a native of present-day Washington County, Maryland, and fathered nine children:

11HC1. Michael MILLER 10 May 1784 18 Dec 1856 (72)
11HC2. Lydia MILLER (1785) (1805) (20)
11HC3. Esther MILLER 30 May 1787 21 Apr 1861 (73)
11HC4. Catherine MILLER (1791) > 1860 (>69)
11HC5. Elizabeth H. MILLER5 1793 4 Apr 1865 (71)
11HC6. Jacob MILLER 17 Feb 1795 8 Oct 1861 (66)
11HC7. Susannah MILLER (1798) (1852) (54)
11HC8. Nancy MILLER 1800 1822 (22)

David MILLER is the earliest proven line of our MILLER family. An extract of his will in Montgomery County, Ohio, cites his daughter Elizabeth FOCKLER [sic] as having been wed prior to Isaac MILLER:

"David MILLER, Randolph Twp, dated Feb 12 1842, rec Aug 26 1845, sons Michael and Jacob MILLER, dau Esther wife of John MILLER, Susan wife of Joseph MARTIN, Elizabeth FOCKLER, children of her first husband, Isaac MILLER, decd, children of dau Nancy decd, grandson David SHIVELY, granchildren Mary, Susan and Magdelena OVERHOLSER, dau of Abraham OVERHOLSER decd, shares of their mother Catharine OVERHOLSER. Exec son Jacob MILLER, Jacob WEYBRIGHT. Wit John SHERRER and John MISHLER."

The MILLERs likely began their marriage in Washington County, Maryland and then moved north and west over the Allegheny Mountains into Bedford County, Pennsylvania settling in the area of Morrisons Cove and Woodbury in the mid-1780's. Here they began their family. About 1795 it appears they moved to Kentucky, likely following David's father Philip Jacob who moved to Campbell County, Kentucky in 1795.

Following David's father's death in 1799, David moved north into western Ohio and settled in Randolph, Montgomery County by 1800.

Magdalena Abigail (MAUGANS) MILLER died in Randolph on 24 March 1833.

David MILLER died 12 years later on 18 August 1845 in Randolph. David is buried at his old homestead at present-day 9476 Haber Road in Randolph, along with his son Michael, and several descendants who make up a family cemetery of 20 graves.

11HD. Susannah MILLER was born on March 2, 1759. She married Daniel ULRICH/ULERY (Jr.) of Conemaugh Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. They had as many as 10 children:

11HDA. Susanna ULRICH/ULERY 1782 1862 (80)
11HDB. Elizabeth ULRICH/ULERY (1783)    
11HDC. Jacob Miller ULRICH/ULERY (1786) 1821 (35)
11HDD. Magdalena ULRICH/ULERY 1786 1838 (52)
11HDE. John ULRICH/ULERY 18 Jul 1788 22 May 1848 (59)
11HDF. Christina ULRICH/ULERY (1791)    
11HDG. Esther ULRICH/ULERY (1794)    
11HDH. Mary ULRICH/ULERY (1797) 1848 (51)
11HDI. Hannah ULRICH/ULERY (1803) 1868 (65)
11HDJ. Sarah ULRICH/ULERY (1805)    

Under Construction, June 2007 Daniel ULRICH/ULERY likely descends from the Stephen ULRICH.

Children of Daniel MILLER, Sr.4 (1755-1822)

11HBA. Stephen William MILLER was born on March 7, 1775 in Washington/Frederick County, Maryland. He married Anna Barbara COLEMAN/BOHLMAN about 1796 and had four children:

11HBA1. Daniel MILLER 30 Dec 1797 8 Jun 1879 (81)
11HBA2. Elizabeth MILLER 1799 1874 (75)
11HBA3. Abraham MILLER 4 Apr 1802 12 Apr 1876 (74)
11HBA4. Jacob B. MILLER 1804    

The MILLERs started their family in Kentucky, probably Campbell County where Stephen's parents and family had moved in 1795. Around the time that Ohio gained statehood in 1803, the MILLERs, as well as Stephen's parents and siblings, moved across the Ohio River into Ohio.

Anna (COLEMAN/BOHLMAN) MILLER died on January 26, 1810 or 1813 in Clermont County, Ohio. She was only 36 or 41 years old.

Some time after Anna's death, Stephen remarried to Emma (or Anna) LESH, the widow of Peter DEARDORFF, in Preble County, Ohio.

Stephen William MILLER died on January 13, 1851 in Montgomery County, Ohio and is buried at Sugar Hill German Baptist Cemetery near West Alexandria in Preble County, Ohio. He was 75 years old.

His widow Emma lived another 13 years and died on September 3, 1864. She was just a few weeks shy of her 80th birthday.

11HBB. Jacob A. MILLER, Sr. was born on November 20, 1776 in Washington County, Maryland. He married Elizabeth METZGER in 1798 and had seven children. Elizabeth died in February 1832 at the age of 60. After Elizabeth's death, Jacob remarried to Catherine (ZIMMERMAN) STUTSMAN, who had been previously married to Abraham STUTSMAN, by 1836 and had another five children; he was approaching 60 and Catherine about 31 at the time. All 12 children were born in Montgomery County, southwestern Ohio:

11HBBA. Daniel MILLER (1800) 1835 (35)
11HBBB. Susannah MILLER (1804) (1859) (55)
11HBBC. John A. MILLER (1805) (1835) (30)
11HBBD. Jacob A. MILLER, Jr. 12 Mar 1808 23 Apr 1901 (93)
11HBBE. Elizabeth MILLER (1810)    
11HBBF. Catherine MILLER (1818)    
11HBBG. Mary MILLER (1820)    
11HBBH. Daniel MILLER (1836)    
11HBBI. David MILLER (1837)    
11HBBJ. Benjamin MILLER (1838) (1924) (86)
11HBBK. Samuel MILLER (1841)    
11HBBL. Jesse MILLER (1844)    

Jacob A. MILLER, Sr. died in 1858 in Montgomery County, Ohio. He was about 81 years old.

Catherine (ZIMMERMAN STUTSMAN) MILLER lived on another 25 years in Montgomery County. She died on March 16, 1883 at about the age of 77 years old.

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11HBC. Daniel MILLER (Jr.) was born on July 30, 1779. He is believed to have had five children but died sometime prior to his father's death in 1822. He was therefore in his late 30's or early 40's at the time of his death.

11HBD. David (B.) MILLER was born on July 30, 1781 in Washington County, Maryland[Cen 1850] (his next elder brother's second birthday unless I've flubbed one of the dates). He married Mrs. Catherine (SCHAEFFER) GEPHART, the widow of Peter GEPHART, in 1806 and fathered seven children. Catherine died in 1826 in Montgomery County, Ohio around the age of 40. David later remarried to a woman named Martha, a native of New Jersey, about 1837 and fathered three more children[Cen 1850]:

11HBDA. David B. MILLER (1805)    
11HBDB. Samuel MILLER (1809)    
11HBDC. John David MILLER (1811) (>1880) (>69)
11HBDD. Elizabeth MILLER (1813)    
11HBDE. Catherine MILLER (1815)    
11HBDF. Lydia MILLER (1817)    
11HBDG. Susan MILLER (1819)    
11HBDH. Stephen MILLER (1840)    
11HBDI. Michael MILLER (1843)    
11HBDJ. Malinda/Matilda MILLER (1845)    

David MILLER died on December 1, 1851 in Elkhart County, Indiana. He was 70 years old.

After David's death, Martha remarried to Joel APPLIN and continued to reside in Elkhart Township with her three children.[Cen 1860]

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11HBE. Samuel MILLER was born on March 17, 1785 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He was born mentally deficient (legally declared as such in 1832 by a jury of seven in Montgomery County, Ohio) but lived into his early 80's in the care of his family. He lived with his nephew Abraham MILLER in 1850[Cen 1850] in Madison Township (Trotwood), Montgomery County, Ohio and afterward with his next younger brother John B. in Elkhart County, Indiana until John's death in 1856. After this he lived with John's son, Samuel's nephew, John J. MILLER, at least through the 1860 census of Elkhart County, Indiana. Samuel died on November 27, 1867 in Elkhart County, Indiana at the age of 82 years. He is buried at the Hope-Miller Cemetery in Elkhart.

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11HBF. John B. MILLER was born on December 15, 1787 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. John's family moved from Pennsylvania to Campbell County, Kentucky in 1795 and then about the time of Ohio statehood in 1803, the family moved north from Kentucky to the area of Montgomery and Preble counties near Dayton in western Ohio. It was in Montgombery County that John married Ester MILLER, his first cousin and daughter of his uncle David MILLER, around 1807. Like John, she was also born in Bedford County on May 30, 1787. They raised five sons:

11HBF1. David Y. MILLER 14 Apr 1809    
11HBF2. Abraham MILLER 1811    
11HBF3. Jacob Y. MILLER 7 Jan 1812 9 May 1872 (60)
11HBF4. Samuel W. MILLER (1814) (1899) (84)
11HBF5. John J. MILLER 1815 5 May 1880 (64)

The MILLER family settled in Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana by the 1850's. John died there on June 11, 1856 at the age of 68. His widow Ester died five years later on April 21, 1861 at the age of 73. They and two of their sons, David and Jacob, are buried at the Hope-Miller Cemetery in Elkhart.

11HBG. Isaac MILLER5 was born on 8 December 1789 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth "Betsy" H. MILLER5 (11HC4), also of Bedford County and who it appears was his cousin, in either Miami or Montgomery County, Ohio on 2 July 1812. They had five children before Isaac's early death at the age of 32. Betsy soon after remarried to Valentine FACKLER and had eight more children:

11HBG1/11HC4A. Nancy MILLER 25 Jun 1813 2 Dec 1894 (81)
11HBG2/11HC4B. Daniel MILLER 1815    
11HBG3/11HC4C. Magdalena MILLER 1817    
11HBG4/11HC4D. David John MILLER6 2 Dec 1817 1892 (74)
11HBG5/11HC4E. Elizabeth MILLER 10 Sep 1820 30 Aug 1901 (80)
11HC4F. George FACKLER 1822 1839 (17)
11HC4G. Jacob C. FACKLER 18 Jul 1825 12 Dec 1911 (86)
11HC4H. John FACKLER 18 Jul 1825 18 Jul 1904 (79)
11HC4I. Mary Ann FACKLER Jun 1826 24 Jul 1850 (24)
11HC4J. Michael FACKLER Jun 1828 1 Feb 1899 (70)
11HC4K. Samuel M. FACKLER 12 (Apr) 1830 20 Feb 1925 (94)
11HC4L. Sarah Ann FACKLER 9 May 1833 5 Jan 1917 (83)
11HC4M. Martin FACKLER 19 Mar 1834 1909 (75)

Isaac MILLER died in Montgomery County, Ohio in August 1822. He was only 32 years old.

Betsy remarried to Valentine FACKLER soon after Isaac's death and had eight more children.

The family stayed on in Ohio until about 1833 when they moved west into Indiana, likely in Elkhart, Elkhart County. In 1837 they resettled in Ely, Linn County, Iowa before shifting slightly south across the county line into Big Grove Township, Johnson County, Iowa by 1840 where the area later became known as Fackler's Grove.

Elizabeth "Betsy" (MILLER) FACKLER died in Big Grove, Johnson County, Iowa on April 4, 1865. She is buried at Fackler's Grove Cemetery in Johnson County.

11HBJ. Elizabeth Poe MILLER was born on April 8, 1796 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. She married John BOOKER (BUCHER/BOOGHER) on either September 29, 1813 or October 10, 1815 in Montgomery County, Ohio. They had 12 children, all born in Montgomery County, Ohio:

11HBJA. Catherine BOOKER 26 Oct 1816 28 Dec 1903 (87)
11HBJB. Hannah BOOKER 26 Nov 1817 3 Jan 1867 (49)
11HBJC. Daniel BOOHER (sic) 13 May 1819 10 Aug 1903 (84)
11HBJD. Elizabeth BOOKER 10 Oct 1820 6 Sep 1872 (51)
11HBJE. Mary Polly BOOKER 18 Aug 1822 12 Mar 1905 (82)
11HBJF. Susannah BOOKER 4 Jan 1824 6 Apr 1900 (76)
11HBJG. Rachel BOOKER 14 Dec 1825 10 Sep 1910 (84)
11HBJH. Peter BOOCHER (sic) 8 Nov 1827 25 Oct 1908 (80)
11HBJI. Margaret Rebecca BOOKER 18 Sep 1829 18 Mar 1914 (84)
11HBJJ. Abigail BOOKER 10 Jan 1832 16 Jan 1874 (42)
11HBJK. Jacob BOOKER 17 Dec 1833 27 Sep 1897 (63)
11HBJL. Sarah BOOKER 24 Jun 1836 14 May 1896 (59)

The family settled on a 160-acre homestead in the southeast quarter of Section 18, Township 5 North, Range 5 East (West of the Great Miami), later known as Randolph Towship in Montgomery County, Ohio.

John BOOKER died on January 24, 1861 in Montgomery County, Ohio at the age of 71. He was buried at the Warner Cemetery in Randolph Township, Montgomery County, Ohio.

Elizabeth Poe (MILLER) BOOKER died on November 8, 1871 in Miami County, Ohio. She was 75 years old. She was buried at the Old Harris Creek Cemetery in Darke County, Ohio.

11HC1. Michael MILLER was born on May 10, 1784 in either Lancaster County or Bedford County, Pennsylvania,. He married Salome "Sarah" CRAMER about 1806 in Montgomery County, Ohio. After about 30 years of marriage and 12 children, Sarah died in 1836. Michael remarried the following year to Elizabeth BRUMBAUGH and had another 10 children!

11HC1A. John C. MILLER 15 Oct 1807 31 Jul 1891 (83)
11HC1B. Mary MILLER 24 Nov 1809 15 Nov 1841 (31)
11HC1C. Nancy MILLER 18 Sep 1811 4 Feb 1813 (16 mos.)
11HC1D. David C. MILLER 11 Oct 1813 22 Jun 1901 (87)
11HC1E. Jacob MILLER 19 Oct 1815 20 Jun 1885 (69)
11HC1F. Michael MILLER (Jr.) 8 Nov 1817 18 Feb 1900 (82)
11HC1G. Joseph MILLER 25 Oct 1819 1 Aug 1871 (51)
11HC1H. Daniel MILLER 5 Mar 1822 28 Aug 1823 (101)
11HC1J. Abraham MILLER 2 Apr 1824 4 Jul 1910 (86)
11HC1K. Benjamin MILLER 17 Aug 1826    
11HC1L. Andrew MILLER 16 Nov 1828 13 Mar 1917 (88)
11HC1M. Aaron MILLER 12 Apr 1831 13 Oct 1915 (84)
11HC1N. Catherine MILLER 8 Aug 1838 5 Aug 1860 (21)
11HC1O. Emanuel MILLER 24 Aug 1839 29 Aug 1905 (66)
11HC1P. Samuel MILLER 10 Nov 1840 18 Mar 1841 (4 mos.)
11HC1Q. Susanna MILLER 22 Feb 1842 3 Sep 1857 (15)
11HC1R. Salome Sarah MILLER 11 Apr 1843 18 Feb 1907 (63)
11HC1S. Elizabeth MILLER 18 Oct 1844 21 Aug 1925 (80)
11HC1T. Isaac MILLER 20 Aug 1846    
11HC1U. Lydia MILLER 12 Jan 1849 24 Jun 1849 (5 mos.)
11HC1V. Esther Hettie MILLER 27 Sep 1852 7 May 1931 (78)
11HC1W. Solomon MILLER 24 Jan 1854 26 Aug 1946 (92)

Michael likely moved with his parents to Randolph, Montgomery County, Ohio by 1800 as a teenager. All of his 22 children were born in Montgomery County.

Salome "Sarah" (CRAMER) MILLER died on February 26, 1836. She was 49 years old.

Michael MILLER died on December 18, 1856 in Montgomery County. He is buried at his father's old homestead at present-day 9476 Haber Road in Randolph, along with his father and several descendants who make up a family cemetery of 20 graves. Michael was 72 years old.

After Michael died, Elizabeth remarried to David HULL and moved southwest from Randolph to Perry Township in Montgomery County.

Elizabeth (BRUMBAUGH MILLER) HULL, died on March 6, 1901 in Montgomery County, Ohio. She was 89 years old.

11HC2. Lydia MILLER was born about 1785, likely in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. She married Isaac David SHIVELY in Clermont County, Ohio about 1801; she was about 16 years old and he about 42 years old. They had one son:

11HC21. David Miller SHIVELY 3 Oct 1803 3 Jul 1883 (79)

Lydia (MILLER) SHIVELY died about 1805, only about 20 years old.

Isaac David SHIVELY died in Montgomery County, Ohio on Sep 25, 1823. He was 63 years old.

11HC4. Catherine "Katie" MILLER was born about 1791, likely in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. She married Abraham OVERHOLSER on August 11, 1811. They had three daughters:

11HC41. Mary OVERHOLSER 16 Jun 1812 18 Aug 1880 (68)
11HC42. Susannah OVERHOLSER 10 Jun 1816 8 Feb 1866 (49)
11HC43. Magdalena OVERHOLSER 16 Feb 1820 2 Sep 1904 (84)

Abraham OVERHOLSER died on November 9, 1819 in Darke County, Ohio, north-northwest of Dayton. He was about 32 years old and left Catherine pregnant with their third daughter.

Catherine remarried to a Jacob OVERHOLSER, Abraham's widower uncle, on October 9, 1821 in Montgomery County, Ohio. Jacob had five children from his prior marriage.

Jacob OVERHOLSER died on March 15, 1850 in Montgomery County, Ohio, just days after his 80th birthday.

Catherine (MILLER) OVERHOLSER died sometime after the 1860 census where she is last noted in Jefferson Post Office, Neave Township, Darke County, Ohio with her daughter Susannah's family.

Continue on to MILLER Family Book, Part III

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