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Joseph Peter Miller (1814-1895)
Peter Miller (1779-1845)
Graphics-Joseph Miller Takes a Bride
- Part 1--Joseph Peter Miller and his Bride.
- Part 2--Relative Locations
- Part 3--About Michael Miller, 01-10-Michael-Miller
We begin on an up-note.
We began our work to take a fresh look at the evidence by examining records and information regarding the marriage of Joseph Peter Miller and Rebecca Thoma at Stark County (Ohio), 19 November 1835.
The marriage had been recorded at Stark County, 15 November 1835, and an announcement had been published, too (reporting marriage date of 10 November 1835).
The 1835 news item called both Joseph Peter Miller and his wife "of Paris township."
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Paris township is the location of the farm that Peter Miller purchased in 1816; it is where he lived in 1835. In 1840, Peter sold 101 acres of the farm in 1840 to son-in-law, George Coblentz, after which time Peter moved to a smaller Paris farm. He died at Paris in 1845 and is buried there.
The Neighboring Farm.
Next up was some "oh-so-sweet-I-want-one" family tradition about Joseph and Rebecca (Thoma) Miller, written by their grandson. In 1954, John I Miller wrote, "... grandfather, was born in Stark County .... his father [was] Peter Miller ... Grandmother, Rebecca Thoma was born on a farm neighboring the Miller farm. She was the only girl grandpa ever went with and he was her first and only sweetheart."
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Using Stark County deed indexes and deeds, we traced the ca1835 locations of the Miller and Thoma farms at Paris township. We also compared our research specifically about the Peter Miller farm to similar research conducted in the 1980s by Clifford T. Wig and presented in "The family Tree of Daniel Lucinda (Baker) Baker" (1986; 31 pp.).
Indeed, the 1835 Paris township farm of Peter Miller (?1779-1845) was situated immediately to the west of the farm owned by Jacob G. Thoma, Rebecca's father.
Peter Miller purchased all but 15 acres of this farm (94.66 acres) in 1816; he owned the farm continuously until 1840.
One Miller farm is never enough.
According to the 1875 Paris township plat map, however, there was then yet another adjacent Miller farm, located immediately east of the Thoma property. Again researching the Stark County deeds, we determined that second farm had been purchased by Simon Miller in (<< wip-being written).
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