From: Sandi Gorin <[email protected]>To: [email protected] 8502 DAVIESS CO - MILLER, ROBERT - Miller, Anderson 8503 KENTON CO - MILLER, JAMES H - Miller, Pennington,Bartlett 8504 SCOTT CO - MILLER, JOHN C - Miller, Holmes, Warren, Johnson 8505 SHELBY CO - MILLER, THOMAS - Miller, Glover #8501: "A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY,1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone. Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 469-471. Used by permission. [Daviess] MARVIN MILLER: In many respects Brother Marvin Miller is the best Clerk the Daviess-McLean Baptist Association has had in its entire history. He was born at Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, on June 25, 1871, and is the son of Elijah and Elvira Barrett Miller. In his twelfth year he professed faith in Christ and united with the Goshen Methodist Church, Ohio County, Kentucky, under the ministry of Rev. P. A. Edwards. He later became a Baptist and was baptized into the fellowship of the Baptsit [sic] Church at Lamar, Colorado, by Rev. D. B. Livingston. In early life he attended a country school and later attended Hartford College and Business Institute. For a number of years he served as office stenographer for railroad companies in the South and West. For the past thirty-four years he has been Court Reporter for the Daviess County Circuit Court and other courts in Kentucky and Indiana. He has the reputation of being the best court reporter in the entire State. For a number of years he served as the Clerk of the Third Baptsit [sic] Church in Owensboro and has been the Recording Clerk of the First Baptist Church for the past seven years. Since the year 1926 he has served as the Clerk of the Daviess-McLean Baptist Association. He is now in his eighteenth year in that position. His work has been so efficient that on one occasion the Association was awarded an honor for having the best Associational Minutes of any fraternity in the State of Kentucky. Mrs. Miller was formerly Miss Virginia Mamie Dawson, the daughter of William H. and Virginia B. Dawson. Their only child, Miss Abbie Catherine Miller, is Director of Piano at Gardner-Webb Baptist School,Boiling Springs, North Carolina. On the occasion of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the First Baptist Church, in 1935, Brother Miller wrote a poem to commemorate the event. The poem is as follows: ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO When restless bands of savage Indians trod A land whereon no white man yet had been; A land whose every foot was blest of God To be a dwelling place for Christian men, Brave pioneers from out the East came here, And with their trusted rifles drove the foe Back westward to the plains and broad frontier And this they did One Hundred Years Ago. They blazed a path over trail where dangers lay, In quest of lands whereon they might reside, And westward, many a long and tiresome day, They journeyed on with loved ones by their side. Until they reached the "Yellow Banks" of sand And here they felled the trees with many a blow And planted seed and tilled the virgin land Where now we live, One Hundred Years Ago. Proud Spartan mothers, with determined will, Worked side by side with sires as brave as they; Undaunted by the snows or winter's chill, Pursued their tasks from dawn till close of day, While men, with strong determination bent, Built homes and laid the mighty forest low, And caught a vision as from heaven sent, A church for us, One Hundred Years Ago. Their souls were filled with love for God; they yearned To do His will and serve Him with their might; Their hearts with fire from off the altar burned, Rejoiced in doing what they knew was right. From nearby woods the ring of axe resounded, And many a tall and stately tree laid low, To build a house, and then a church was founded On sacred ground One Hundred Years Ago. Their bodies rest, we know not where they lie But hallowed be the spot that holds their clay. Their spirits gone to be with God on high, To wait the great and final Judgment Day. We think of them as having gone before, And now at rest from earthly sin and woe. Some day we'll join them on the other shore, Those saints who lived On Hundred Years Ago. Today still lives the work they started then, A monument to last throughout a nation, A refuge built for saving sinful men Who turn to God and seek their soul's salvation. We breathe a prayer, with voices hushed, today, To God above, from whom all blessings flow, That He may ever keep us in the way As trod those saints One Hundred Years Ago. (Written in commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of First Baptist Church, of Owensboro, Kentucky, January, 1935.) #8502: History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 623. ROBERT MILLER (deceased), late of Knottsville Precinct, was born in Shelby County, Ky., Oct. 1, 1814, and was a son of James Miller. He was reared on a farm and educated in a subscription school. He was married March 5, 1840,to Cornelia S. Anderson, daughter of Reuben Anderson. They had fourteen children born to them, of whom ten are living--Reuben A., James L., John N., Mary E., Annie S., Robert E., Francis B., Martha C., Henry W., and Charlotte A. One son, George P., died at the age of thirty-six years. Mr.Miller came to this precinct in January, 1867, and settled four miles southeast of Knottsville, where his widow and the younger children now reside. He died June 4, 1875. He was a Mason and a member of the Temple of Honor. He was a faithful member of the Baptist church. Mrs. Miller was born in Versailles, Woodford Co., Ky., Sept. 25, 1818. #8503: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Kenton Co. JAMES H. MILLER, a native of northern Ohio, was born October 19, 1837, and is a son of Samuel and Charity (Pennington) Miller, both natives of Ohio, and of the Quaker religion. James H. Miller was educated at Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., and in 1864 volunteered in the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Ohio. At the close of the war he returned to Cincinnati, and engaged as a salesman in a wholesale cap business, and was afterward manager of the Western Department of the Holman Liver Pad Company in the East. In 1872 he located in Covington, Kenton Co., Ky., where, in 1885, he was appointed United Stages gauger. In 1866 he married Miss Rosa Bartlett, daughter of Nathaniel Bartlett. [See sketch of Nathaniel Bartlett.] #8504: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky,ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 602.[Scott County] [Georgetown City and Precinct] JOHN C. MILLER, deceased; was born in Scott County, Ky., Feb. 7, 1800. His youth was passed on the farm and in private schools, being the pupil of a man name Laughlin. He chose the profession of law, and became a distinguished practitioner of the Georgetown bar, being often pitted against Governor J. F. Robinson, whose contemporary he was. After some years of successful practice, Mr. Miller retired from its labors and went to Mississippi, where he purchased a tract of over 2,000 acres of cotton lands, which he converted into plantations and owned and worked from 600 to 800 slaves upon it. For many years Mr.Miller and his family passed the winter season in the "Sunny South" and the summer in Georgetown, Ky. He was married Dec. 20, 1821, to Miss Jane Holmes, of Fayette County, who is still living. She was born in Lexington,Ky., in 1802, and was educated in her native city. Her parents moved to Scott County when she was a girl. Mrs. Miller spent eleven winters in Mississippi, performing the journey on the keel and flat boats of a half-century ago, so that at one time she knew every crook and turn of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Their marriage bore the fruit of three sons and two daughters, all deceased except one daughter, Mrs. Warren. Robert H. died of Cholera in 1883; James and John C. died in 1832. Agnes married John F. Warren, of this county. He became a successful planter and died in Mississippi, in 1863, leaving no children. She is still living with her aged mother. Laura Miller, married Thomas P. Johnson, a son of Euclid and Maria (Warren) Johnson. His father, Euclid Johnson is a brother of Major M.C. Johnson, of Lexington, and like his brother, a distinguished lawyer; he died at Little Rock, Arkansas. Thomas P. Johnson was born in Scott County,Ky., in 1829, and finished his education in the Military Institute, and went to California in 1849, and spent some years in the mines, and on his return became a Southern planter. He died at Georgetown, April 12, 1862, leaving four children. There are but two sons living, now residents of Georgetown, Ky. His widow, Laura (Miller) Johnson, was afterward married to Dr. Paul Rankin, of Georgetown, but died in 1868. #8505: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co. THOMAS MILLER (deceased) was born in Virginia April 14, 1786, and died September 2, 1838. He came to Shelby County and settled on a farm near Clay Village, where he was a prominent farmer and stock raiser. His wife, Sarah Miller, was born June 2, 1790, and died in Shelby County, January 12, 1864. They have two sons buried in the Shelbyville Cemetery: Albert G. Miller, who was born January 29, 1825, and died February 1, 1881, and Hedgman S., born October 19, 1820, and died March 11,1876. The farm of over 500 acres near Clay Village is owned by the only living daughter, Miss Ann Miller. Another daughter, Elizabeth F. Miller, was born November 26, 1818, married a Mr. Glover, removed to Missouri, and died August 14, 1850. Col. Sandi Gorin>Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ GORIN worldconnect website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sgorin SCKY resource links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html ==== KYBIOGRAPHIES Mailing List ==== _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail