This email was sent to me by someone not subscribed to the list. I am forwarding it to the list. If you wish to answer the person please send the email to them. Jane Admin -- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Borland To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:11 AM Subject: {not a subscriber} Millers & Welches: New information & WHO WAS DAVID MILLER? I've spent the almost 4 years now on my Welch family, and I have some good (but dissapointing) news. I've successfully traced my Hannah Welch (John Perigo Smith's wife) back out of Harrison County! However, (the disappointing news) she is not related to any of the other Welch families in this area. I have her tied into a Welch family that came from Harford County, and the connection has been confirmed by the 1850 census, which says that's where she came from. She is actually Hanna J. Welch (born 1824). The only explanation I can think of is that John's father was from Baltimore, and he may have been visiting relatives when he met her. I can't think of any other reason a single girl (younger than 23 years old) would have came from Maryland to Harrison County all by herself. The connection is definitive, though. The next bit of news: Harrison Miller (husband of Mary Ann Wheeler) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ I have successfully DISPROVED my previous theory on Harrison Miller's father. He is absolutely NOT the son of Andrew Miller & Margaret Everhart. The names and dates matched, but several pieces of new information reveal that he can not be. So, here's what I have done: I have now accounted for EVERY SINGLE Miller child in the 1830 census who was between 10 and 15 years old. It had been narrowed down to 4 choices for Harrison's father (all the rest either didn't have children that age, or I already knew who they were): 1} Mason Miller (Freeport) was ruled out when I realized he was born in North Carolina. Harrison's father was born in Pennsylvania, of Dutch extraction. 2} Isaac Miller (Freeport) was ruled out, because he didn't move to Harrison County until the 1820s, and we know Harrison was born in Harrison county 1818. 3} John Miller II (son of John Miller & Sarah Delany in Green Twp) was ruled out because John was born in Virginia (although he lived in PA for some time), and there is a genealogy out there that says he died with his sister out in Marion County Ohio in the 1850s. We already know Harrison's father died 1835. 4} The last man standing is someone I know nothing about! His name is David Miller and he was in the 1820 and 1830 censuses in Archer Township. I have no information about his wife nor children, other than the headcount from the 1830 census. He is NOT the same David Miller in German Township, nor is he either of the 2 David Millers that appear in the 1840 Harrison County census. Since his son (born between 1815 and 1820) is the last unaccounted for Miller in the 1830 census that fits Harrison's profile. If David is not Harrison's father, then the history book that says Harrison was born in Harrison County must be incorrect! WHO WAS DAVID MILLER? The answer is: I don't know, but I think it was Harrison's father. His grave is either unmarked, or he was not burried in Archer Township. So I am asking for anyone that knows anything about this David Miller (born between 1780 and 1790) who appears in the 1820 and 1830 Archer Township censuses to please contact me. My new e-mail is [email protected] Thanks, Kevin Borland P.S. Harrison Miller is now my LAST Harrison County ancestor that I can't trace back yet. All my other research for my other Harrison County families is complete, including (recently) my Wheeler family.