This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADE/883.1 Message Board Post: I have a connection to the Miller family in the 1800's of Shelby County, Illinois. My GGG Grandmother was Milly Reed Green a sister of Elizabeth Reed Miller. Here is some information that I have gathered over the years. The name Reid was mispelled and should be Reed. John Miller, Jesse Miller and other family members came from Warren County, Tennessee in the early 1820's. One account in the Reed family says that Edward Reed stayed at John Miller's home when Edward first arrived in Shelby County. History of Shelby County p932 Jesse Miller-Farming has grown to be an accepted business, and is conducted as any other line of work, intelligently and profitably. The rich Illinois farm lands yield good incomes for those fortunate enough to possess them, and the farmers living in Shelby County enjoy every advantage of climate and soil. Jesse Miller, who is one of the prosperous farmers of Shelbyville Township, was born five miles southeast of Shelbyville and three-quarters of a mile from his present home, June 16, 1832, a son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Reid) Miller, both natives of North Carolina. From that state they removed to Tennessee, and then to Illinois in 1820. The father of the elder Jesse was John Miller, while the father of his wife was Edward Reid. John Miller settled on the present farm of Charles Gladman, where he died in middle life. His children were as follows: Lowrey, John, Abraham, Thomas, William and Jesse-all of whom were farmers of Shelby County, and there reared families. Thomas, the last survivor, died when about sixty-five. Edward Reid settled first on the home place of Mr. Miller and the Millers and he were near neighbors. Here he died when about eighty-six, and his wife Sarah (Martin) Reid died about the same age. The Reid family was as follows: Moses, who reared a family and died in Shelby County at an advanced age; Andrew, who move to Nevada, Mo., where he died; Allen B., who also reared a family in Shelby County and died at an advanced age. Jesse Miller had a nice little farm of prairie land, on which he died when thirty-five years old, his widow surviving him twenty years. Their family was as follows: William, a farmer of Shelby County, who died at the age of forty five; Moses, a farmer of Shelby County, died at the age of forty-four; On the 1830 Shelby County, Illinois Census, page 147A next to Felix and Milly's family is the Jesse Miller family. Jesse Miller's wife was Elizabeth Reed the sister of Milly Reed Green.