Jacob Miller (1754 - 1835)

Born Aug 1754 in Berks, Province of Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Anna H (Stutzman) Miller — married 1777 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Somerset County, PA

Descendants

Died 25 Feb 1835 at age 80 in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States

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Birth: Aug., 1754 Berks County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Feb. 22, 1835 Tuscarawas County Ohio, USA

Jacob "Yockel" (nickname) was the third child and second son of John "Hannes" Miller, Sr. and Magdalena Lehman. Jacob married Anna Stutzman (daughter of Christian Stutzman and Barbara Hochstetler) in 1777 in Somerset, Pennsylvania at the Trinity Lutheran Church. Jacob and Anna moved to the Glades after her mother died. After 1790, Jacob had his own farm in Elklick Township. By this time they had four sons:

John J.

Benedict

Henry

Jacob Jr.

In 1799, he moved to Ohio in Sugarcreek township. They made the trip by Conestoga wagon. Jacob had been the Amish-Mennonite minister and bishop in the Casselman River congregation in Elklick Township, and as the other settlers came in, was the first minister in Ohio as well. They called him Yockel Miller and he at first served the Amish settlers in both Tuscarawas and Holmes Counties. His wife Anna died in 1814 and gradually the duties of the ministry and farm were given over to his son, Jacob, Jr. Jacob died at the age of 81.^[1]

Sources:

"Anniversary History of the Family of John "Hannas" Miller, Sr. (ca. 1730-1798)" by J. Virgil Miller

"Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies" by Hugh F. Gingerich and Rachel W. Kreider

Find A Grave

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1. ↑ Find A Grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57955905/j-mill

"Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2JX-N2X : 9 December 2014), Jacob Miller in entry for Marie Magdalene Miller, 22 Aug 1790; Christening, citing SAINT LUKES EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN OR FORMERLY HEIDESCHAEFFERST,SCHAEFFERSTOWN,LEBANON,PENNSYLVANIA; FHL microfilm 823,585.