MILLER, ABSALOM

MILLER, MCKIMMEY, POLK

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/15/2013 at 12:21:21

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 812

MILLER, ABSALOM--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 6, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born January 31, 1832, in Rockingham county, Virginia, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till the spring of 1868, when he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns, in three pieces, 420 acres of well improved land, having some fine thorough-bred stock thereon. He was married, August 26, 1855, in Delaware county, Indiana, to Miss Mary D. McKimmey, who was born there in 1837. They have ten children: John L. (born August 30, 1856; married, and lives in Warren township), Sarah Ann (born December 3, 1858), Margaret P. (born January 1, 1860; now the wife of Wm. A. Polk, of Warren township), Wm. H. (born January 1, 1862; died September 28, 1862), Rebecca C. (born August 9, 1863), Mary E. (born October 6, 1865), Lydia M. (born November 3, 1870), Jessie (born November 12, 1872), Eliza Jane (born March 12, 1874), Charles (born November 18, 1877, and died March 14, 1878).