Barbara (Kauffman) Miller (1742 - 1770)

Born 1742 in Berks County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1770 at about age 28 in Berks County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Barbara Kauffman was born in 1742 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Barbara married Samuel C. Miller of Maiden Creek, Berks County.^[1][2] They had at least 5 children. She passed away before 1783 in Mifflin County, PA, while her husband was serving in the Revolutionary War.

Research Notes

Added 17 Dec 2017 by Francis E. Berkey (Berkey-120). How about that, I found Samuel Miller's 1st wife. I would like finding these people a little more if they were carrying a little more information with them but dealing with the Miller families is an extra inning ball game all in it's own. I live in Wayne Co., OH, and the next county south, Holmes Co., has Millersburg as county seat. We share a regional telephone directory and you wouldn't believe the Millers. The G&K A&A/M genealogies book is very thin on information for Samuel. They don't know Barbara's maiden name and no dates although they know he had a 2nd wife that they know absolutely nothing about. They do list 5 children for the couple but no dates for them either. I guess a little detective work could turn up something. Child 5 is also named Barbara and is married to one of my many Jacob Berkeys AKA BK214. She is AKA ML65 which is near the root end to the tree. FEB

Sources

1. ↑ Miller, J. Virgil, The Christian Miller Family of Cumru Township, p.229.
2. ↑ Both Sides of the Ocean, Amish-Mennonites From Switzerland to America (Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2002).

Acknowledgments

• Lisa Littell.
• Personal family information both written and from family Bibles gathered over several years of travel and library research. Original edition The Berkey Book and also 2nd edition which has many Berkeys that I personally researched as well as Line 26 which is started with Orange Grove Berkey. This is as close as our branch comes but in Line 3 appears his younger sister, Catherine Winchester Berkey who married Joseph Hochstetler who is DJH-4263. This was actually a mistake on the part of the informant named Wade Miller whose mother was a Berkey and since Catherine was in the household of Jacob Berkey he thought she was his daughter but she was not. Many of my relatives are in Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler first published in 1912 by Rev. Harvey Hostetler, D.D. long before personal computers.