My GG grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Miller's first child was born in 1834 so I presume that he was married in about 1833 to Amelia Baker. (She died circa 1848. He was remarried - to Sarah Bruner - by 1850.) According to census records, he would have been born circa 1808/10. He was alive at the time the 1880 census was taken, but he died sometime in late 1882 or early 83. He was alive at the time the 1882 taxes lists were written but he was no longer alive by tax time in June of 1883 and by then his wife was listed as a widow. He was living in Perry County, PA by the 1830s and died there, but I can't find a graveyard in Perry County that lists him as a 'resident'. He may have been buried in a family graveyard. Family history says that our Millers were from Lancaster County before then. That's why I've been looking for him in Lancaster County. I found several Benjamin Franklin Miller's tombstones in the Mennonite Church's graveyard in Millersville, PA, but can't make the connection to my Millers. I don't know what religion he was, but I know that his son Sam, my g- grandfather, was a Lutheran, so maybe he was as well. On Nov 29, 2008, at 1:19 PM, [email protected] wrote: > What time period? What part of the county, if you know? My Millers > were > associated with the Germans or Swiss, and were probably either > Brethren or > Mennonite. This is truly a place where you have to research entire > families when > you get a common name, with several different ethnic origins for > what ended > up being the same surname. My Martha Magdalena Miller is listed in > her > father's will, and he shows up in the document as Henry & > Heinrich. She is the > widow of John Gish by 1850 (he died sometime after the census in > 1840, and > before the end of 1841.) > > I haven't done a lot with sorting out Millers because there are so > many of > them and of several ethnicities & relitions. I have no idea whether > my > Henry/Heinrich was the immigrant or born here as he died in the 1830s. > I've gotten a couple of possibilities for his wife, and am not totally > convinced of either of them. > > Karen > > > In a message dated 11/29/2008 10:53:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Karen, I see that you are also looking for Millers in Lancaster > County. > My gg grandfather's name was Benjamin Franklin Miller. > I have been having a very difficult time finding my Millers in an > area > where Millers are > as numerous as Smiths and Jones are in most places. Any suggestions > as to how to search > a common name such as this one? > > > On Nov 28, 2008, at 11:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> I have several volumes of cemetery transcriptions for Lancaster >> county, >> since I have quite a few families that went through there (Gish, >> Miller, >> Sides/Seitz, Eckman). It was part of these transcriptions that made >> me push our >> group so hard to record everything. I stood at the grave of a gr- >> gr-grandmother, >> and though the dates & her name was legible, half of the writing on >> the >> stone was not. One guy said I didn't need it, since I had the >> dates, but I want >> to know what else was carved on the stone, since somebody in the >> family >> thought enough of it to pay to have it carved on/or purchase one >> with that >> particular sentiment. There wasn't anything like that on her >> husband's. >> >> Karen >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try > the NEW A > OL.com. > (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002 > ) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message