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| 11HBG11. | Elizabeth WEAVER | (1836) | ||
| 11HBG12. | Mary WEAVER | (1839) | ||
| 11HBG13. | Roxanna WEAVER | (1844) | ||
| 11HBG14. | Joseph WEAVER | Oct 1844 | ||
| 11HBG15. | Perry WEAVER | (1847) | (1850-1860) | (3-13) |
| 11HBG16. | Jeremiah WEAVER | (Feb 1850) | ||
| 11HBG17. | Sarah J. WEAVER | (1854) | ||
| 11HBG18. | Martha E. WEAVER | (1857) |
The WEAVER family moved from Ohio into Indiana during the early 1840's, settling in Hector, Noble Township, Jay County, Indiana by the 1850 census.
George WEAVER died at the age of 82 on November 27, 1893 in Wayne, Jay County, Indiana.
Nancy (MILLER) WEAVER died a year later in Wayne on December 2, 1894. She was 81 years old.
11HBG4/11GC4D. David John MILLER6 was born on 2 December 1817 in Ohio and moved to Iowa around 1840, soon after Iowa became a territory in 1838. He married Sarah Ann KESTER about 1840 in Cedar County, Iowa and then began their family of as many as six children in Solon, Johnson County:
| 11HBG41. | Finetta A. MILLER | 23 Feb 1841 | 9 Apr 1908 | (67) |
| 11HBG42. | Isaac Dennis MILLER7 | 8 Dec 1843 | 25 May 1896 | (52) |
| 11HBG43. | Margaret Elizabeth MILLER | 15 Sep 1854 | 3 Apr 1938 | (83) |
| 11HBG44. | John Valentine MILLER | 24 Sep 1856 | 13 Apr 1940 | (83) |
| 11HBG45. | Mary Jane MILLER | 4 Jan 1859 | 3 Jul 1940 | (81) |
| 11HBG46. | Sarah Ellen MILLER | 21 Mar 1861 | 6 Nov 1932 | (71) |
According to the 1860 census of Side Hill, Cedar Township, Johnson County, Iowa, David was a farmer, originally from Ohio. His wife, Sarah A., was born in Indiana, and all of his five children at the time were born in Iowa. Real estate value was appraised at $1,500, and personal property at $250.
Except for daughter Finetta, whose family had already set firm roots in Iowa, the rest of the MILLER family joined a wagon train bound for California about 1870. As noted in a family narrative from 1935, the wagon train was attacked by Indians and son John Valentine MILLER had a "close call" when an arrow ripped through the crown of his hat.
Upon arrival in California the MILLER family first settled in either San Luis Obispo or Santa Barbara County.
This migration to California seems to follow that of both the KESTERs and the ANDREWS. Sarah's younger brother James Layson KESTER re-settled in San Luis Obispo County in 1867 after several year's residency in Napa County. Her next younger brother John Jr. also settled in San Luis Obispo County by 1871 after an apparent stay in Napa as well. Additionally, David and Sarah's elder son Isaac's in-laws, the ANDREWS, also settled in San Luis Obispo County as early as 1868. Furthermore, yet another one of Sarah's brother, William KESTER, was married to Isaac's wife's aunt, Harriet ANDREWS which solidifies the alliances between the three families.
By the 1880 census, David and Sarah relocated to Slate Creek, Josephine County, Oregon.
David John MILLER died in 1892 in Table Rock, near Sam's Valley, Jackson County in southwest Oregon, just north of Medford. He was 74 years old.
Sometime after David's death, Sarah moved to back to San Luis Obispo. In the 1900 census she is listed as a patient in San Luis Obispo.
Sarah Ann (KESTER) MILLER died two years later in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California where some of her grandchildren lived.
| 11HBG51. | Nancy Jane BROCKERT | 1845 | (1939) | (94) |
| 11HBG52. | Maria Elizabeth BROCKERT | (1847) | ||
| 11HBG53. | John Phillip BROCKERT | 20 Oct 1849 | 2 Aug 1928 | (78) |
| 11HBG54. | George Edward BROCKERT | Apr 1852 | Dec 1891 | (39) |
| 11HBG55. | Sarah C. BROCKERT | 1855 | 1940 | (85) |
| 11HBG56. | Marcus Richard BROCKERT | 23 Nov 1858 | Feb 1942 | (83) |
| 11HBG57. | Jacob Andrew BROCKERT | 23 Nov 1858 | Dec 1949 | (91) |
| 11HBG58. | Mary M. BROCKERT | 1862 | (1956) | (94) |
Come the 1880 census, the BROCKERT family was rooted in Eliot, Louisa County, Iowa.
Andrew BROCKERT died on August 23, 1891 in Oakville, Louisa County, Iowa, three days after his 70th birthday.
Elizabeth (MILLER) BROCKERT died ten years later on August 30, 1901 in Oakville, 11 days shy of her 81st birthday.
| 11HC4GA. | Samantha A. FACKLER | 1852 | Apr 1887 | (35) |
| 11HC4GB. | Mary Ann FACKLER | 1 Dec 1854 | 14 Jul 1932 | (77) |
| 11HC4GC. | James Beck FACKLER | 1857 | 23 Jan 1917 | (59) |
| 11HC4GD. | Alice FACKLER | 1859 | 1932 | (73) |
| 11HC4GE. | John FACKLER | Oct 1861 | 1917 | (56) |
| 11HC4GF. | Zerelda Angeline FACKLER | 30 May 1864 | 5 Apr 1952 | (87) |
| 11HC4GG. | Sarah E. FACKLER | 1866 | 1940 | (74) |
| 11HC4GH. | Jacob C. FACKLER (Jr.) | 1869 | 1873 | (4) |
| 11HC4GI. | George R. FACKLER | 1871 | 1964 | (93) |
| 11HC4GJ. | David M. FACKLER | 1874 | 1920 | (46) |
| 11HC4GK. | Willie H. FACKLER | 1877 | 1878 | (1) |
Jacob C. FACKLER died on December 12, 1911 in Springfield, Sarpy County, Nebraska.
Minerva Elizabeth (NICHOLSON) FACKLER died five years later on December 27, 1916.
| 11HC4I1. | Jacob STARTZER | 2 Dec 1848 | 20 Sep 1929 | (82) |
| 11HC4I2. | Emma/Emily/Anna STARTZER | 20 Apr 1849 | 25 Mar 1904 | (54) |
Mary Ann (FACKLER) STARTZER died on July 24, 1850 at the young age of 24. Following her death, John remarried to Mary Ann's younger sister, Sarah Ann.
| 11HC4K1. | John Wesley FACKLER | 28 Feb 1863 | 19 Jul 1948 | (85) |
| 11HC4K2. | James Isaac FACKLER | 23 Nov 1865 | 23 Feb 1868 | (2) |
| 11HC4K3. | Lydia Ann FACKLER | 4 Sep (1867) | 8 Jan 1938 | (70) |
| 11HC4K4. | Samuel Otis FACKLER | 30 Sep (1867) | 1937 | (70) |
| 11HC4K5. | Laura Malinda FACKLER | 10 May 1869 | 12 Oct 1899 | (30) |
| 11HC4K6. | Mary Evelyn FACKLER | 29 Jul 1875 | 18 May 1937 | (61) |
After Malinda's death in March, 1880, Samuel remarried to Elizabeth Watters MCGRAW the following year in Cedar Rapids.
Samuel M. FACKLER died on February 20, 1925 in North Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa and is buried at the Dunkard Cemetery in Cedar Rapids. He was 96 years old.
| 11HC4LA. | George STARTZER | (1851) | ||
| 11HC4LB. | Samuel STARTZER | Jan 1853 | ||
| 11HC4LC. | Lydia STARTZER | Mar 1855 | 7 Jan 1935 | (79) |
| 11HC4LD. | Volentine John STARTZER | 25 Jul 1857 | 7 Nov 1941 | (84) |
| 11HC4LE. | John STARTZER | (Dec 1859) | <1893 | (<34) |
| 11HC4LF. | Melinda STARTZER | (1860) | ||
| 11HC4LG. | Frances STARTZER | (1861) | ||
| 11HC4LH. | Peter STARTZER | (1864) | ||
| 11HC4LI. | Ellen/Allen STARTZER | (1867) | ||
| 11HC4LJ. | Rudolph J. STARTZER, Jr. | 26 Jun 1869 | 19 Feb 1945 | (75) |
| 11HC4LK. | Sarah STARTZER | 27 Jan 1871 | 4 Oct 1943 | (72) |
| 11HC4LL. | Margaret STARTZER | (1872) | ||
| 11HC4LM. | Finetta "Nettie" STARTZER | (1875) | ||
| 11HC4LX. | Julia STARTZER | <1893 | ||
| 11HC4LX. | Mary E. STARTZER | <1893 | ||
| 11HC4LX. | William STARTZER | <1893 |
Rudolph STARTZER immigrated to America in 1839 from Knittlestheim, Bavaria in Germany and settled in Big Grove Township by 1841.
From the "History of Johnson County"
RUDOLPH STARTZER, farmer, post-office, Ely, Linn county; was born in Germany, March 7, 1823, and in 1839 emigrated to America and settled in section 5, Big Grove township in 1841. He followed hunting for a number of years, being one of the most successful hunters in the country; he and his brother-in-law, David MILLER, in one fall killing sixty-three wolves. He now owns 365 acres of land; his home farm of 200 Acres being well improved, and has a fine vineyard, and an orchard of 500 fruit trees. He was married in September, 1847 to Mary A. FACKLER, daughter of Valentine FACKLER, she dying in 1850.Two children of this marriage are living; Jacob and Emma. He was again married in 1851 to Sarah FACKLER, a sister of his first wife, by whom he has had nineteen children, twelve now living; George, Samuel, Lydia, Valentine, Melinda, Francis, Peter, Ella, Rudolph, Sarah, Maggie and Nettie.
Rudolph STARTZER died on November 4, 1893 in Johnson County, Iowa. He is buried at Facklers Grove Cemetery in northern Johnson County.
Sarah Ann (FACKLER) STARTZER died on January 5, 1917 in Big Grove Township, Johnson County, Iowa and is also buried at the Facklers Grove Cemetery. She was 83 years old.
| 11HC4M1. | John J. FACKLER | (1857) | ||
| 11HC4M2. | Edward FACKLER | (1858) | ||
| 11HC4M3. | William FACKLER | 1868 |
Martin FACKLER died in 1909 in Pamona, Los Angeles County, California.
| 11HB41A. | Henry I. SCHLEY | 5 Feb 1861 | 1937 | (76) |
| 11HB41B. | Dorothea Ann SCHLEY | 3 Oct 1865 | 1959 | (93) |
| 11HB41C. | Eliza Ellen SCHLEY | 26 Sep 1867 | 1960 | (93) |
| 11HB41D. | Finetta Barbara SCHLEY | 8 Mar 1869 | 13 Mar 1934 | (65) |
| 11HB41E. | Mary Catharine SCHLEY | 22 Dec 1871 | 1965 | (93) |
| 11HB41F. | Samuel Isaac SCHLEY | 17 Jul 1875 | 29 Jan 1968 | (92) |
| 11HB41G. | Frederick Wesley SCHLEY | 19 Oct 1877 | 25 Dec 1948 | (71) |
| 11HB41H. | Nevada May SCHLEY | 25 Feb 1880 | 7 Jan 1976 | (95) |
| 11HB41I. | Lewis Franklin SCHLEY | 1 Oct 1881 | 3 Aug 1964 | (82) |
| 11HB41J. | Iva Loretta SCHLEY | 19 Mar 1883 | 6 Oct 1979 | (96) |
Frederick died on 14 July 1884 but Finetta lived until 9 April 1908 when she died in North Liberty. She was 67 years old.
At least three of the SCHLEY children moved to South Dakota.
11HBG42. Isaac Dennis MILLER7 was born in Solon, Johnson County, Iowa on 8 December, 1843. He appears to have been named after both his maternal aunt's widower, Isaac DENNIS, and his paternal grandfather, Isaac MILLER. He joined the 24th Iowa Volunteer Regiment and served with the Union Army as a private. He was wounded at the Battle of Champion's Hill, Mississippi, en route to Vicksburg, and was later crippled at Opequon Creek, Virginia, on the road to Winchester, Virginia. After the war, Isaac married Candace Mandana ANDREWS, a native of Pennsylvania and the niece of his maternal uncle's wife (William KESTER and Harriet ANDREWS. They were wed in a ceremony conducted by Justice of the Peace, G. B. NICHOLSON, in Plattford Precinct, Sarpy County, Nebraska on 19 June, 1868. From there they moved to San Luis Obispo County, California, likely on the road with Harriet's grandparents, and raised a family of seven children:
| 11HBG421. | Hattie Mae MILLER | 2 May 1869 | 17 Jun 1954 | (85) |
| 11HBG422. | Orrin Elbert MILLER | 6 Jul 1870 | 1 Aug 1941 | (70) |
| 11HBG423. | John Walter MILLER | 11 Nov 1871 | 19 Sep 1947 | (75) |
| 11HBG424. | Cora Ethel MILLER8 | 29 Jan 1880 | 18 Jul 1967 | (87) |
| 11HBG425. | Elma "Babe" Finetti MILLER | 12 May 1884 | 10 Mar 1962 | (77) |
| 11HBG426. | Minnie Isabelle MILLER | 24 Jul 1888 | (<1930) | (<42) |
| 11HBG427. | Iva Edith MILLER | 8 Jul 1892 | (1920) | (28) |
Story of Pvt. Isaac Dennis MILLER, 24th Iowa Volunteers
According to Isaac's enlistment papers, he was 5' 9" tall with black eyes, dark hair, and a dark complexion.
After Isaac's marriage to Candace Mandana ANDREWS on 19 June, 1868, the family continued to live in Iowa through at least the end of 1871 before heading out to California. The first-known California home was in Morro Township, San Luis Obispo County by 1873, the location to which Candace's grandparents had moved a few years earlier. (Candace's death certificate confirms this by stating she had lived in California for 39 years at the time of her death in 1912). In 1880 they lived only a few households away from her grandfather Nathan ANDREWS and Isaac worked as a farmer. Isaac was further noted as being lame from a gun shot wound[Cen 1880].
By 1881, the family moved a little further up the coast to Old Creek (Cayucos), where Isaac was a laborer and his daughter, Cora Ethel, was born. They lived there not more than two years before they moved to the Cholame valley in southeastern Monterey County, in and around Parkfield* and Imusdale* near Isaac's younger brother, John V.. There, Isaac worked as a butcher for about five years. In May, 1887, the MILLER family moved to Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County, where Isaac continued to work as a butcher.
Parkfield, originally known as Russelsville, is known today as the "Earthquake Capitol of the World." In the early 1900's it was a booming little town with three grocery stores, two livery stables, three blacksmiths, two saloons, a hotel, public school, and a two-story community hall.Imusdale was founded by the Imus family between 1854 and 1855. It set up its own post office in 1875 but 27 years later closed it and faded away in 1902. Its location today is marked by the cemetery on Vineyard Canyon road, northwest from Parkfield, 3 miles west of the Slack Canyon road junction.
On 13 January 1910, Candace Mandana (ANDREWS) MILLER was institutionalized at the Stockton State Hospital in Stockton, San Joaquin County, by her eldest daughter, Hattie Mae. Two years later, Candace died there of a broken heart, as her granddaughter Elsie put it.
11HBG43. Margaret Elizabeth MILLER was born on 15 September 1854 in Johnson County, Iowa. She married Rufus Sanford AKERS on 29 May 1871 in Jackson County, southwestern Oregon and had seven children:
| 11HB431. | Henry Jasper AKERS | 11 Mar 1871 | 1 May 1893 | (22) |
| 11HB432. | Ida Lavina AKERS | 17 Feb 1874 | ||
| 11HB433. | Iona Margaret AKERS | 13 Jul 1876 | 19 Jan 1972 | (95) |
| 11HB434. | Charles Sanford AKERS | 4 Mar 1879 | ||
| 11HB435. | Isaac Calvin AKERS | 29 Sep 1882 | 8 Nov 1973 | (91) |
| 11HB436. | Elbert Virgil AKERS | 5 Feb 1885 | 26 Mar 1979 | (94) |
| 11HB437. | Ethel Adella AKERS | 20 Oct 1887 | Mar 1967 | (79) |
After their marriage, the young AKERS family had their first son in Jackson County but then moved a little to the west in Josephine County where the next three children were born. By 1882 they moved north a county to Dillard, Douglas County, just south of Roseburg where the last three children were born.
Rufus died on 1 February 1913 in Oroville, Butte County, California. Margaret lived on another 25 years until she passed on 3 Apr 1938 in Delight Valley, Lane County in west central Oregon. She was 83 years old.
It is still unknown how it came about that Margaret Elizabeth migrated to Oregon. Her family, except for her elder sister Finetta, migrated to San Luis Obispo County, California about 1870. Did she strike out for Oregon from California or from Iowa? With whom did she, still as yet unmarried, travel with?
11HBG45. John Valentine MILLER was born in Solon, Johnson County, Iowa on 24 September 1856 or 1857. It appears his middle name may have been in honor of his step-grandfather Valentine FACKLER whom his grandmother married following his grandfather's early death at the age of 32.
John migrated to California with his parents around 1870, possibly together with his elder brother, Isaac Dennis, 14 years his senior, after the Civil War. On 24 July 1892 he married Lulu May CRAIG, a native of California and orphan of a gold miner and pioneer, who was 16 years his junior. Together they had 12 children, 9 of whom lived to adulthood:
| 11HBG44A. | Ernest Vincent MILLER | 12 Aug 1893 | 30 May 1907 | (13) |
| 11HBG44B. | Emmet Craig MILLER | 12 Oct 1894 | 2 Nov 1984 | (90) |
| 11HBG44C. | Lester Eustice MILLER | 1 Nov 1896 | 1971 | (74) |
| 11HBG44D. | Cecil May MILLER | 13 Jan 1898 | ||
| 11HBG44E. | Mabel Elkin MILLER | 25 Apr 1899 | 28 Apr 1982 | (83) |
| 11HBG44F. | Nellie Frances MILLER | 13 Oct 1902 | 24 May 1908 | (5) |
| 11HBG44G. | Frederick Arthur MILLER | 30 Oct 1905 | 16 May 1997 | (91) |
| 11HBG44H. | John Walter MILLER | 20 Apr 1907 | 25 Apr 1907 | (5 days) |
| 11HBG44I. | Bernard Jessie MILLER | 12 Apr 1908 | 16 May 1934 | (26) |
| 11HBG44J. | Henry Irving MILLER | |||
| 11HBG44K. | Charles David MILLER | 20 Jan 1914 | 11 Mar 1993 | |
| 11HBG44L. | Herbert Archie MILLER |
The following family narrative was written on 15 February, 1935, probably by daughter Mabel Elkin (MILLER) DUDLEY:
"John Valentine MILLER, a son of David and Sarah (KESTER) MILLER, was born near Solon, Iowa on September 24, 1856. He came to California with the rest of the family in a covered wagon when he was 14 years old. Their wagon train was attacked by Indians on the way. The Indians were driven off. In the encounter, John MILLER had a "close call" when an arrow ripped through the crown of his hat.""The family settled in the San Luis Obispo-Santa Barbara area of central California."
"John MILLER and Lulu May CRAIG were married September 24, 1892 (his 36th birthday) at Davis, California."
"Lulu May CRAIG was one of 7 children born in San Jose, California, May 6, 1872. John CRAIG was a California pioneer and gold miner. The mother, whose maiden name was MING, had been married first to Robert CRAIG, John CRAIG's brother, a butcher by trade who died of blood poisoning. There were no children from her first marriage. John CRAIG mysteriously disappeared in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and was never heard of again. The mother died soon afterwards and her seven small children went to live in an orphanage in San Jose until they were put up for adoption."
"From the orphanage, May CRAIG (as she was called) went to live with a family by the name of SYKES who had a ranch near Davis in the Sacramento Valley. She lived there until she was 20. May's younger sister, Ida, had gone to live with a family named JOHNSON in the same area. When she came of age Ida married a son of that family, Will JOHNSON, about 1890. Will and Ida had taken up farming in the San Luis Obispo area. May CRAIG was visiting her sister when she met John MILLER, a neighboring rancher. John and May were married not too long after. They homesteaded land near Parkfield in southern Monterey County where several of their 12 children were born."
"The family moved to Eureka where the oldest boys started school. John MILLER got a job in a Santa Clara mill and sent for his wife and children to come by boat. The boat Pomona arrived in San Francisco after a rough voyage and the children went to Santa Clara school. John did not work at the mill very long. He ran a chicken farm on the TRUMAN place in Gilroy. That did not pay good so he took his family to the LARD place in Prunedale 5 miles south of Gilroy and worked for a rancher named Clinton DOAN. The children went to Lake School, a one room schoolhouse all 8 grades in one room. Next John MILLER took over an orchard belonging to the LESTER brothers. That did not pay good so he went to the MAZE place and ran a dairy with about 50 cows. He made cheese and raised hogs. From there the family moved to Dos Palos on another dairy ranch, separated the cream and sent it to town. It was there that Bernard, the number 9 child, was backing up in the cream separator room and set down in a bucket of scalding hot water. His dad was there and ripped his clothes off or he would have been scalded worse."
"When the older boys started leaving home John MILLER had to give that up and moved to Paicines where he worked with a team of horses for the neighboring ranchers. About that time he went on old age pension and the boys had to help out all they could."
John lived in Monterey County, in the Cholame Valley around Imusdale and Parkfield from around 1882 to at least 1892. John V. is described in the 1882 Great Register of Voters of Monterey County as standing six feet tall, with a dark complexion, black eyes, dark hair, and a scar on his left wrist. He was employed as a laborer at the time. John's elder brother Isaac Dennis also lived in the Cholame/Parkfield area from around 1882 but moved to Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County in 1887.
As noted above, John married Lulu May CRAIG on 24 July 1892 in Davis, California but returned to the Cholame/Parkfield area where his first few children were born.
By 1900 the young MILLER family resettled in Bucksport Township, Humboldt County, California where he worked as a teamster.
Bucksport was established on Humboldt Bay near its entrance, now part of southern Eureka, in 1851 after David A. BUCK of the GREGG party named the area. In 1853, Fort Humboldt was built overlooking the small town.
By 1910, the family was reestablished in Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California. There John worked as a farmer. As noted above they then moved south to Prunedale in Monterey County where the children attended Lake School. Later the MILLERs headed east over the Pacheco Pass to Dos Palos in Merced County about 1918 but not long after backtracked to Paicines in San Benito County.
John Valentine MILLER died on 13 April 1940 in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. He was 83 years old.
Lulu May (CRAIG) MILLER died 20 years later in San Jose on July 2, 1960. She was 88 years old.
| 11HBG451. | Percilla WOODY | (1876) | ||
| 11HBG452. | Charles W. WOODY | (1878) | ||
| 11HBG453. | Arthur WOODY | (1880) | ||
| 11HBG454. | Nora WOODY | (1882) |
Mary Jane (MILLER) WOODY died on 3 July 1940 in Eureka, Humboldt County, California. She was 81 years old.
| 11HBG461. | Eliza Jane MURRY | 1883 | ||
| 11HBG462. | Iva Avada MURRY | 2 Jul 1893 | 1981 | (88) |
Sarah Ellen later married Oliver DOOLITTLE.
Thomas died on 6 February 1907 in Merlin, Josephine County, Oregon at the age of 75.
Sarah Ellen (MILLER MURRY) DOOLITTLE died on 6 November 1932 in Oregon. She was 71 years old.
The time frame of Sarah Ellen's resettlement in Oregon is still unknown. Her elder sister Margaret Ellen moved there by 1871 but is presumed she stayed with her parents in California who left for Oregon sometime later. Sarah Ellen's wedding in Oregon in 1879 suggests that her parents may have removed to Oregon by that time as well. It is in Oregon that her fathered died in 1892.
Continue on to MILLER Family Book, Part IV
