MILLER, John

MILLER, WALWORTH, CHADD, MCVEY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/11/2014 at 23:48:36

Biography ~ John Miller

"History of Reno County, Kansas"
(PLOUGHE, Sheridan. B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)), Vol. II.

JOHN MILLER was raised on a farm and was married in New York state. They later moving to Indiana where he developed a farm, but there was a problem with the title to the farm and he was removed on a legal technicality.

They moved farther west and settled in Illinois, where be remained until 1846. About that time the Black Hawk War broke out and he served in that briefly.

In the summer of 1846 he and his family drove by ox-team to Iowa and settled in Wapello county [Iowa]. There John Miller got a half section of "Congress land," on which he lived until 1855 when he sold out and moved to Decatur county, [Iowa] where he bought a quarter of a section of land and there spent the remainder of his life, his death in the spring of 1874, at the age of seventy-four years.

His widow Sophia survived him for nearly eighteen years, her death occurring in February, 1892, at the age of eighty-one. They were the parents of nine children, three sons and six daughters.

NOTE: John Miller was born January 31, 1800, and died March 23, 1874. Sophia (Walworth) Miller was born in Canada on August 23, 1811, and died March 25, 1893. They were interred at Franklin Cemetery, Center Township, Decatur County IA. Of John and Sophia's children:
Susan Romelia (Miller) Chadd, born 25 Jan 1832; died 03 Jul 1911, Seward KS; interred Edan Valley Cemetery; Seward KS
Robert Miller, born 06 Jan 1834, Indiana; died 16 Oct 1904, Kansas; interred Fairview Park Cemetery, St. John KS
Mary (Miller) McVey, born 10 Feb 1838; died 21 Jul 1920; interred Lewisburg Cemetery, Humeston IA
Henry S. Miller, born 1843; died 1926; interred Franklin Cemetery
Lydia E. Miller, born 04 Oct 1855; died 06 Feb 1865; interred Franklin Cemetery

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2014