Elijah Richman Miller (1861 - 1929)

Born 8 Apr 1861 in Gaffney, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Son of John Manson Miller and Mallissa Ann (Stiles) Miller

Husband of Edith Kirtland (Sturdevant) Wolf — married 5 Jul 1893 in Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon, United States

Descendants

Died 25 Feb 1929 at age 67 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

Biography

Lost his leg in 1904 as the result of an accident at the mill in Scotia ^[1][2]

• Fact: Burial Evergreen Cemetery , Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Ferndale Enterprise (Ferndale, California) · 1 Mar 1904, Tue · Page 1
2. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56365116/ferndale-enterprise/

• Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal MyHeritageDNA test match between Marie Leonard and Lance Martin, her 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are John Miller and Mallissa Stiles, the great great grandparents of both Marie Leonard and Lance Martin. Predicted relationship from MyHeritageDNA: 1st cousin twice removed - 3rd cousin once removed, based on sharing 29.3 cM across 8 segments.

• Elijah Richmond Miller (1861-1929) on Find A Grave: Memorial #209169235 retrieved 30 July 2020

1870

"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJ1-GRT : 17 October 2014), Andrew Miller in household of John M Steller, Kansas, United States; citing p. 3, family 16, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,942.