Henry Miller Family and Descendants

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Introduction by D. Vitale-Cox

I always remember my mother speaking fondly of the Miller Family Reunions back in Ohio. One of the treasured keepsakes that she handed down to me was her copy of the Henry Miller Family and Descendants, June 25, 1980 edition in which I was listed.

The branches of the descendants of “Old German Henry” are filled with pastors, ministers, community leaders and various seekers of truth and tradition. I have spent almost three decades adding what I could to the stories from the pages, filling in missing details and exploring new branches...

I believe the spirit of Chester, Rev. William and even Ol’ Henry himself are with me on my adventures and it is in that spirit, that I share what I find with you.

Excerpt from Henry Miller Family and Descendants, Page 8

PREFACE

In writing a genealogical record of a family a writer has to make a few decisions. Will he or she stay strictly with documented facts, or will they use some family traditions? Will they publish bare statistical data, or intersperse this with details? The one gives conciseness, the other readability.

In this I may do a little of each but where tradition is used it will be so indicated.

Henry Miller, his two marriages, his twelve children, his one hundred and five known grandchildren, with their posterity, have produced in nine generations enough to make a story worth telling, and a family worth naming and putting down on record. For one thing, those that carry the blood of Henry Miller in their veins now number into the thousands.

It is not my intention to give the names of all these Miller descendants for two reasons. One is that all of them are not know to the writer, and the other is that it would be too large a task. However, the main branches of the family will be carried down for enough generations to make it possible for those now living to pick up their own relationships to the others.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

For the main beginnings of these records, or that which was passed on to me, I am most deeply indebted to Rev. William M. Miller, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, a retired minister (United Methodist) and chaplain (Col. USAG) for his forty years intermittent research about the Miller family. Without his help this work would not be possible.

Several others have rendered valuable service of putting the various families together. For the Nelson family: Mrs. Kathryn Nelson of Yorba Linda, CA and Clayton Daugherty of Champaign, IL; the Cooper family, Dr. Fred Phillips of Zanesville, Ohio; for the Halterman family, Laura Rust of St. Paul, MN, and the book “The Halterman Story” by Laura Landreth Rust and Thelma Stanford Greer; for the Malones, Helen Grubb of Oak Hill, Ohio and Florence Malone Boggess of Springfield, Ohio; and for the other families, Enid Storts, now deceased, Virgil Null, now deceased, Rusha O’Neal Marshall, now deceased, Esta McDaniel Lee, Clyde Massie, Ernest Wiseman, Ether Miller Ingles, and Wayne Ingles (the author of ‘Symmes Valley’). All of these have made valuable contribution of data, pictures or other materials, also Maxine Marshall.



Excerpt from Henry Miller Family and Descendants, Page 12

I will tell you in more detail how this record came about.

In 1969 while searching for my Miller ancestry I was give the name of ‘second cousin’. It was that of Rev. William M. Miller, of Mount Vernon, Ohio. I was told he had records of the Miller family. A phone call brought us in contact with each other. I paid him a visit. He gave me the names of our mutual forefathers back to German Henry.

William Miller had begun his research about forty years ago. He had visited and interviewed old relatives from Ohio to Missouri. He had collected the family story of German Henry, of his two wives, names of the twelve children, eight by his first wife, four by his last. He had learned we were five generation levels removed from Henry, or that he was our mutual great, great, great grandfather.

He had seen the family Bible of our great grandfather, John Miller, and had coped data from it. He furnished the names of ten of the companions of Henry’s children; and of 70 grandchildren, and who 54 of these had married.

Ten years later added research has produced an additional 35 grandchildren and hundreds of their children with dates and proof of most of what had been originally given to me.

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