Margaret (White) Miller (1754)

Born 1754 in St. Matthew's Parish, Orangeburg, Province of South Carolina

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Miller Jr — married 1775 in Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina

Descendants

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Biography

"The eldest child of the family, William White, had a grant to land in Lancaster County, which he sold in 1749.He then moved to the Waxhaws, S.C. and died there (later Lancaster County, S.C.).He married Sarah ?.Ramsey's History of South Carolina says she died in 1806 at the age of ninety.But Governor Stephen Decatur Miller, who was born in 1788(grandson)says thatshe lived until he was about ten years of age. Issue:

Jean, married Major Robert Crawford of Revolutionary fame. Hugh married Mary, the daughter of Joseph White. Margaret married Jesse Miller and they were the parents of Governor Stephen Decatur Miller. Isabella married Andrew Foster Christiana married James Crawford, Jr. a first cousin of Andrew Jackson who persuaded them to move to Tennessee where they left a large family. John married first Nancy Ann Foster, second Margaret Harper Moses married Jane Miller ???daughter married Captain John McClure killed at Hanging Rock, 178076" Credit of Genealogy to Virginia Clements November 24, 2004 at 08:59:14^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/white/21315/
2. ↑ Descendants of Adam White, pp. 18, 29