Fred Miller, 1849 - 1906

MILLER, KEYE, KLEVER, TIERNAN, POPE, SIMMONS, SMITH

Posted By: Ava Simmons (email)
Date: 2/27/2005 at 15:40:38

Obituary notice (Marengo newspaper, name of paper & date unknown):

"Died at his home in Marengo, on Monday morning, Nov. 12, 1906, Fred Miller, age 57 years, 11 months and 1 day.

Mr. Miller's death was not unlooked for as he had been sick for a number of months past, and his malady failed to yield to treatment.

Fred Miller was born in Brunswick, Germany, January 11, 1849, son of Frank Miller, a stonemason by trade. In 1851 the latter came with his family, consisting of a wife and three children, to America. They lived in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, New York where the father died in 1854. In August, 1862, the family came to Iowa County and located at South Amana, residing there three years and then moving to Marengo. Fred Miller was the youngest of three children born to his parents and at the age of thirteen years began the work of a stonemason with his step-father Henry Keye. At the age of 17 he engaged in farming, and at the time of his death he was the owner of considerable farming land in Iowa County.

On the 9th day of August, 1871, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Christena Klever, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Klever, of Pilot township, and to them were born four children: Mrs. John H. Tiernan, of Fillmore township, Mrs. Ed Pope, of Troy township; Mrs. R.A. Simmons, of Honey Creek township, and Mrs. Walter Smith of Hartford township, all of whom, together with the wife, survive to mourn his departure.

Funeral services will be held at the Presbyterian church this afternoon at 2 o'clock, services being conducted by Rev. Fred B. Tucker of the M.E. church and the burial, which will be under the auspices of the Masonic Lodge, will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.

The family have the sincere sympathy of all in the hour of bereavement."