Casper Miller is DAR Ancestor #: A036158 He signed the Oath of Allegiance in 1778 in Pennsylvania. The DAR lists his birth as 11-23-1744 Lancaster, Pennsylvania and his death as ante 11-4-1796 Middleton, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. His wives: 1) Juliana Long and 2) Margaret. Children: Christiana who m. Frederick Myers and Casper who m. Christiana Unknown. [3]
There is a headstone at findagrave with the following information. I have not confirmed that this grave is our Casper, but it's hard to say it's not. I'm going to use the information from that headstone so I can remember the dates to help prove or disprove the information.
Sources
↑ Ringwalt, J. F., Theodore Diller, Isaac Diller, and Alfred Diller. The Diller Family (published in November, 1877). New Holland, PA: S.n., 1942.
↑ Ringwalt, J. F., Theodore Diller, Isaac Diller, and Alfred Diller. The Diller Family (published in November, 1877). New Holland, PA: S.n., 1942.
↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 19, 2019), "Record of Casper Miller", Ancestor # A036158.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 26 November 2021), memorial page for Casper Elias Diller III (28 Feb 1766–16 Sep 1825), Find A Grave: Memorial #58998733, citing Old Graveyard, Churchtown, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by BennHertz (contributor 47168279) .
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Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confident based on a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 23.6 cM segment on chromosome 1, consisting of DG, GEDmatch kit # T730650, and John Brady, her 4th cousin 3x removed, GEDmatch kit # T261421, and AG, her 9th cousin 1x removed, GEDmatch kit # M142524. (John and AG are 6th cousins 4x removed.) Their most-recent common ancestors are Casper Diller and Anna Dorniss, the 8x great grandparents of DG and 5x great grandparents of John Brady and 9x great grandparents of AG.
Acknowledgements
WikiTree profile Diller-65 created through the import of Reynolds8-18-11.ged on Aug 18, 2011 by Christina Miller. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Christina and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Caspar by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Caspar: