Margaret Frances (Gladden) Miller (1854 - 1898)

Born 21 May 1854 in Hendricks, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Deforrest Miller — married 21 Apr 1875 in Hendricks, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 5 May 1898 at age 43 in Hendricks, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Margaret appears mostly as "Margaret" or "Margaret F." in censuses and other official records. However, she is called "Frances M." in Deforrest's 1885 biography,^[1] and the informant to Deforrest's death certificate gave her name as Frances.^[2] This suggests that Frances was her middle name but that she commonly went by it, at least later in life.

Margaret was born, probably in Washington Township,^[3] on 21 May 1854.^[4]

Margaret married Deforrest Miler on 21 Apr 1875 in Marion County, Indiana.^[5]

She passed away on 5 May 1898,^[4] probably in Washington Township^[6].

Sources

1. ↑ History of Hendricks County, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: Inter-State Publishing Co., 1885. p. 748.
   

   April 21, 1875, Mr. Miller married Frances M., daughter of John Gladden. They have one child---Paul D.

2. ↑ Indiana, United States. Death Certificates, 1899-2011. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015).

   Name: De Forrest Miller

   Widower; wife: Frances Miller

3. ↑ Census records give her birthplace as Indiana, but her parents were living in Washington Township in both the 1850 and 1860 censuses
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 March 2020), memorial page for Margaret Frances Gladden Miller (21 May 1854–5 May 1898), Find A Grave: Memorial #170737963, citing Shiloh Methodist Cemetery, Avon, Hendricks County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by baddadhardin (contributor 47638312) .
5. ↑ "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF6J-WX2 : De Forest Miller and Margaret F. Gladden).
6. ↑ While there is no official record of her death, Deforrest was still living in Washington Township at the 1900 census, so this is the most likely death location

Research Notes

The only source for exact birth and death dates is the memorial stone in Shiloh Cemetery. Since this stone is shared with her husband Deforrest, who died more than a decade later, it is unclear when the stone was erected or how reliable these dates are. Corroborations of approximate birth year come from listings as age 6, 16, and 24 in the 1860-80 censuses. Other records suggest that she was still living in 1885 (when Deforrest's biography does not mention her death) and had died by 1900 (when Deforrest is listed as widowed in the 1900 census).