Greetings MILLER-L researchers, I have not posted the wall for one of my MILLER's So its a new year a comin' Hope some one can add or help with this MILLER line that has been a wall for over 90 + Yrs. now, as his granddaug Jessie Louisa {SMITH} VAN KLEECK b. 1886 MN. and her 2 daughters Garnet and Ruth making them both Jesse's R. MILLER's Gr-granddaug's and both 90+ now.. They have tried to find this MILLER line which happens to married a HUGHES HEWS HUGHS line then a SMITH line and all 3 surnames all to common making all disadvantages for ease of researching any of them. It would make a wonderful gift to these two young ladies to find their wall come tumbling down in 2001 as we cherish and bless every day we have with them both... And time is not on their side any longer since 100 is closer then 50... Any one that can help dig is some of these area I know they would appreciate it on a much grander scale then I could tell you in words.. So here the only bits we have to go on and hoping for any angels with a golden touch to help crack this wall... MILLER Jesse Reuben b. ca 1814 could be from Saratoga N.Y. this family unit isn't found on the 1850 MN. Census but is found on the 1860 US Census Fillmore Co. Minnesota Pg. 241 with records showing this.. MILLER Jesse R. age 40, Louisa HUGHES {HEWS HUGES} age 35, Daniel C. age 17, George W. age 15, Mary A. age 12, Sopronia age 10, Lydia age 5, she is our direct link and the age would be correct.. Emily age 1. Now there's a age gap of 5 yrs. between Sopronia and our link Lydia and some of the family think that Louisa may not have been a 1st marriage but this is just projections of some that say family lore was Louisa was a step-mother.. If anyone has access to this Census and could make a copy of this record I would appreciate it.. as its was found by our Garnet and Ruth's niece in N.D. where she lives. And I only have hand written notes by Garnet taken from a phone conversation with her niece that found the census record back in the 1970ish time frame. We also know that Jesse R. MILLER married Louisa HUGHES/HEWS/HUGHS in Angola Steuben Indiana 23 Jan. 1842 which we thinks blows the step-mother issue if Daniel is their child and is just 17 yrs. as they would have been married just short of twenty yrs in 1860 {as 1862 makes their 20 yrs. of marriage} Next we know that our direct line Lydia the 5yr old on the 1860 Census was born in Laenora Fillmore Co. MN. 20 Oct. 1854 and the Census was recorded prior to Oct. 20 1860 our Lydia is recorded with correct age of 5 yrs. Next we know that Lydia married Dec. 1874 in Redwing Goodhue MN. to James Henry SMITH b. 1845 NH. and our direct link is their Daug. Jessie Louisa SMITH b. 1886 Billingham MN. Now the SMITH family are found in N.D. and James is a blacksmith in the area of Mahull N.D.. and some of the family have his daily cash record or diary of what work was done by him.. and there's notes where Jesse James and the gang came in to have their horse's boarded and cared for by our James Henry SMITH as the town Blacksmith.. I think there are more then one of these entries found and I'm sure other now famous person came to our family Blacksmith business in N.D.. as I'm told many of the Mid West outlaws went north to run from the Law.. Well to make a better ending for my most wanted genealogy data.. our Jessie Louisa SMITH b. 1886 MN. married 1906 in Mahull N.D. which brings us to our current Ruth b. Idaho and Garnet b. N.D as they went to Idaho then came back to N.D. then when to Washington state where the 2 girls grew to women hood and Garnet went on to College in San Francisco with a scholarship offer in Music and has a Master degree in Music, as the family had many a fiddler's both sides of the families.. Well I was trying to make this as simple and short for ease of spotting the data for a connection but I see I have gotten carried away with my humor and clarification on my Wall of these MILLER but hoping some one will find a clue or have a bell go off with any suggestion and discussion a welcome thing for my puzzle with many pieces still in need of some ones fiddling with.. Want to wish all a Wonderful SAFE New Year and success for the genealogy digs in 2001 may an kindness be returned ten-fold to the angel{s} that help me in my MILLER HUGHES SMITH lines.. Cordially, "P.WOODWARD" <map@hughes.net> Please contact me if anything even looks like a possible link.. P.S Also I'm wondering if anyone can link to this posting below as I'm thinking that we could be a connection for this old bible but without finding some more bits for my MILLER's I just can say but I have a hunch they're a link as too many things fit the family lore and the family being in some of the same area MN. as my MILLER's.. Well take a look and if you can link maybe my hunch is right and we can link.. ><http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Unknown> >miller and george bibles >http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Unknown/1623 >Posted by mari donovan <ddonovan@cpinternet.com> on Sat, 16 Dec 2000 > Surname: miller, howe, george >have two 1800s family bibles i am trying to find the decendants of the original >owners. one belonged to a philip[ son of john and elizabeth miller,stark co >ohio.b 3/18/1805 d 2/5/1873. elizabeth was b in pennsylvania.severa children >listed.bot in a box lot of books.don't know how it ended up in minnesota unless >dendants moved here. > >second bible belonged to william and elizabeth george.it lists their marraige >as 1866.unknown where or their tie to ely minnesota where it was found. >e mail <ddonovan@cpinternet.com> ".... people will forget what you said ... .... people will forget what you did ... .... but people will never forget how you made them feel..."