Julia A. D. Miller
& Samuel Miller
Residence of
Samuel Miller,
Franklin Tp.,
Clermont Co., Ohio`` |
SAMUEL
MILLER. John Miller, one of the
pioneers of Clermont County, emigrated from Pennsylvania
about the beginning of the present century, and settled
near Felicity, where he purchased large tracts of land.
His wife, Susan, was born Sept. 14, 1792, and
died Nov. 11, 1876. She has children,
grandchildren, and great-grandchildren living to the
number of one hundred and sixty-four. One of his
children was George Miller, born Oct. 14, 1877,
and who came to Ohio when a boy with his parents.
He married, Aug. 14, 1808, Susan Moyers, in
Bracken Co., Ky., daughter of Philip Moyers,
born in York Co., Pa., and who died May 28, 1869.
His wife was the youngest of her family; her mother died
when she was six years old, and her father never married
again, but himself reared his large family of children
and saw them comfortably settled in life. The
children of John Miller were John;
Martin; George; Henry; Joseph,
a River captain for many years in the steamboat trade;
Susie, married to John McGraw;
Katie, married to John Harman;
Sallie, married to Arthur Fee;
Polly, married to George Reddick; and
____ ____, to Nathaniel Bagby. To George
and Susan (Moyers) Miller
were born the following children: Polly, married
to Zadock Watson; William;
Arthur (deceased); Walter Griffith;
Eliza, married to Isaac Armacost;
Josiah; Samuel; Melissa, married to
James Metzgar; George (deceased);
Melinda W., married to James Watson;
John (deceased); Rebecca W., married to
John Cook; and four who died in infancy.
Samuel Miller, one of the above: was born
Oct. 27, 1820, brought up on his father's farm and
educated at the district schools. He was married
.March 25, 1'847, by Rev. Zachariah Wharton, to
Miss Julia Ann Gue, daughter of George and
Nancy (Daughters) Gue, who was born Nov. 25, 1820.
Her parents were early emigrants from Maryland to
Kentucky, where they resided about a year and then
removed to near Neville, in this county. Her
mother was a sister of the late Turpin
Daughters, of Neville, one of the leading business
men of Clermont for many years. The Millers,
originally of German extraction, were among the early
settlers who laid the foundation of Clermont's future
prosperity. To Samuel and Julia Ann (Gue)
Miller have been born the following children:
Kilby Daughters, born Feb. 21, 1848, and married
Mar. 18,1877, by Rev. James Black, to Laura
Howell; John Lawson, born May 23, 1849, and
died aged fourteen months; George Austin and
Arthur Clayton, twins, born June 25, 1821, of
whom the latter died in his fifth year, and the former
was married in March, 1876, by Rev. S. S. Newhouse,
to Susannah Preble; James Wesley,
born Oct. 23, 1853, and married by Rev. J. P.
Daugherty, in April, 1876, to Anna
McMurchy, of Felicity; Emma Belle,
born Oct. 25, 1855, and married in October, 1877, to
Hanson Day, by Rev. S. S. Newhouse;
and William Walter, born July 25, 1859. Of
the above, John Lawson died Aug. 17, 1850, aged
fourteen months and twenty-five days, and Arthur
Clayton died July 8, 1856, aged five years and
twelve days; Kilby D. and George Austin
live near Point Pleasant; James Wesley, near
Felicity; and Emma Belle Day, at
Mount Orab, Brown Co., Ohio.
Samuel Miller has a fine farm of one hundred and
twenty-two acres, including part of his father's
homestead, and, on it is a neat residence, one of the
first fine dwellings erected in Franklin township.
Mr. Miller was the second man in the township to
raise tobacco, and has been largely engaged in its
culture since 1842, hauling in the first few years his
crops to Augusta, Ky., to be prised. He is a
Republican in politics, and warmly sustained the war for
the suppression of the Rebellion. He belongs with
his family to the Christian Church at Mount Pleasant, to
which he is a liberal contributor, and for thirty-eight
years has been a church member, zealous and consistent,
during thirty of which he has held the office of deacon.
He has frequently served on the township school board,
and been closely identified with the Sunday-schools.
While a general farmer he makes a specialty of tobacco
and fruits, in the culture of which he is very prominent
and successful. He is a man of most exemplary
character, and possesses in the fullest degree the .
esteem and confidence of the community.
To George and Nancy Gue were born the following
children: Julia Ann Gue, John Wesley Gue,
Elizabeth H. (married to Isaac Bingham),
and James Daughters Gue. George Gue
dying, his widow married Mr. Badgley, by whom she
had two children, George W: and J. F. Badgely.
Mr. Miller's beautiful home, one of the finest
in Franklin township, commands a splendid view of the
Ohio River, and is surrounded with all the comforts and
conveniences to make it one of the pleasantest in
Clermont. He began life with no capital but his
own industry and resolute will, but by untiring energy
and good business tact, assisted by his good wife, a
model housekeeper, he has reared for himself an
honorable name and secured one of the best farms and
houses in Clermont. |
