Vevay Reveille, Thursday July 23, 1885, Page 5, Column 1
Obituary - David Miller was born in Bourbon county, Ky. December 29, 1795. He removed with his parents to Indiana in 1808. At a meeting held near the site of Mount Sterling, in Switzerland County, in the year of 1810, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church under the ministerial labors of Rev. Walter Griffith, and after the lawful probation was baptized and received into full membership by a local deacon named Osborn. But simple membership was not by any means his highest conception of religion, and he could not rest the salvation of his soul upon such a sandy foundation, but to use his own language: "I felt that I was a great sinner before God; I confessed my sin and humble penitence and cried, 'Lord, pardon all my sins', and no sooner said than done.
Mr. Miller was married to Polly Gullion in 1815, by whom he became the father of twelve children, seven of whom still live and are well respected citizens. Five others, together with the mother, have passed away.
Having had the misfortune to lose part of my memoranda, I am not able to give the date of Father Miller's second marriage, but it was when he was well advanced in life that he had the good fortune to wed Miss Nancy Ransom. I say good fortune, for but few men ever need so much care and kind attention as he did in a number of his last years of infirmity, and none were ever more kindly and constantly cared for.
As to Father Miller's business career, the writer in not informed more than being one of the pioneer farmers of Switzerland county, all of his active life was taken up in the hard labor of clearing and cultivating the soil, and his old age and infirmity was not deprived of the things needful for life and comfort. . . .
On the morning of July 18th. 1885 at the age of 89 years 5 months and 19 days and after a religious life of even seventy five years, David Miller sweetly fell asleep in Jesus. The funeral was attended by a great concourse of people, and the sermon was preached by the writer at the request of the deceased, from 2 Tim. 4, 6 and 8.
Thus another of the pioneers has been removed, but "he being dead, yet speaketh." J. W. Allen
Obituary - David Miller was born in Bourbon county, Ky. December 29, 1795. He removed with his parents to Indiana in 1808. At a meeting held near the site of Mount Sterling, in Switzerland County, in the year of 1810, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church under the ministerial labors of Rev. Walter Griffith, and after the lawful probation was baptized and received into full membership by a local deacon named Osborn. But simple membership was not by any means his highest conception of religion, and he could not rest the salvation of his soul upon such a sandy foundation, but to use his own language: "I felt that I was a great sinner before God; I confessed my sin and humble penitence and cried, 'Lord, pardon all my sins', and no sooner said than done.
Mr. Miller was married to Polly Gullion in 1815, by whom he became the father of twelve children, seven of whom still live and are well respected citizens. Five others, together with the mother, have passed away.
Having had the misfortune to lose part of my memoranda, I am not able to give the date of Father Miller's second marriage, but it was when he was well advanced in life that he had the good fortune to wed Miss Nancy Ransom. I say good fortune, for but few men ever need so much care and kind attention as he did in a number of his last years of infirmity, and none were ever more kindly and constantly cared for.
As to Father Miller's business career, the writer in not informed more than being one of the pioneer farmers of Switzerland county, all of his active life was taken up in the hard labor of clearing and cultivating the soil, and his old age and infirmity was not deprived of the things needful for life and comfort. . . .
On the morning of July 18th. 1885 at the age of 89 years 5 months and 19 days and after a religious life of even seventy five years, David Miller sweetly fell asleep in Jesus. The funeral was attended by a great concourse of people, and the sermon was preached by the writer at the request of the deceased, from 2 Tim. 4, 6 and 8.
Thus another of the pioneers has been removed, but "he being dead, yet speaketh." J. W. Allen
Vevay Reveille, Thursday July 23, 1885, Page 5, Column 1
Obituary - David Miller was born in Bourbon county, Ky. December 29, 1795. He removed with his parents to Indiana in 1808. At a meeting held near the site of Mount Sterling, in Switzerland County, in the year of 1810, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church under the ministerial labors of Rev. Walter Griffith, and after the lawful probation was baptized and received into full membership by a local deacon named Osborn. But simple membership was not by any means his highest conception of religion, and he could not rest the salvation of his soul upon such a sandy foundation, but to use his own language: "I felt that I was a great sinner before God; I confessed my sin and humble penitence and cried, 'Lord, pardon all my sins', and no sooner said than done.
Mr. Miller was married to Polly Gullion in 1815, by whom he became the father of twelve children, seven of whom still live and are well respected citizens. Five others, together with the mother, have passed away.
Having had the misfortune to lose part of my memoranda, I am not able to give the date of Father Miller's second marriage, but it was when he was well advanced in life that he had the good fortune to wed Miss Nancy Ransom. I say good fortune, for but few men ever need so much care and kind attention as he did in a number of his last years of infirmity, and none were ever more kindly and constantly cared for.
As to Father Miller's business career, the writer in not informed more than being one of the pioneer farmers of Switzerland county, all of his active life was taken up in the hard labor of clearing and cultivating the soil, and his old age and infirmity was not deprived of the things needful for life and comfort. . . .
On the morning of July 18th. 1885 at the age of 89 years 5 months and 19 days and after a religious life of even seventy five years, David Miller sweetly fell asleep in Jesus. The funeral was attended by a great concourse of people, and the sermon was preached by the writer at the request of the deceased, from 2 Tim. 4, 6 and 8.
Thus another of the pioneers has been removed, but "he being dead, yet speaketh." J. W. Allen
Obituary - David Miller was born in Bourbon county, Ky. December 29, 1795. He removed with his parents to Indiana in 1808. At a meeting held near the site of Mount Sterling, in Switzerland County, in the year of 1810, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church under the ministerial labors of Rev. Walter Griffith, and after the lawful probation was baptized and received into full membership by a local deacon named Osborn. But simple membership was not by any means his highest conception of religion, and he could not rest the salvation of his soul upon such a sandy foundation, but to use his own language: "I felt that I was a great sinner before God; I confessed my sin and humble penitence and cried, 'Lord, pardon all my sins', and no sooner said than done.
Mr. Miller was married to Polly Gullion in 1815, by whom he became the father of twelve children, seven of whom still live and are well respected citizens. Five others, together with the mother, have passed away.
Having had the misfortune to lose part of my memoranda, I am not able to give the date of Father Miller's second marriage, but it was when he was well advanced in life that he had the good fortune to wed Miss Nancy Ransom. I say good fortune, for but few men ever need so much care and kind attention as he did in a number of his last years of infirmity, and none were ever more kindly and constantly cared for.
As to Father Miller's business career, the writer in not informed more than being one of the pioneer farmers of Switzerland county, all of his active life was taken up in the hard labor of clearing and cultivating the soil, and his old age and infirmity was not deprived of the things needful for life and comfort. . . .
On the morning of July 18th. 1885 at the age of 89 years 5 months and 19 days and after a religious life of even seventy five years, David Miller sweetly fell asleep in Jesus. The funeral was attended by a great concourse of people, and the sermon was preached by the writer at the request of the deceased, from 2 Tim. 4, 6 and 8.
Thus another of the pioneers has been removed, but "he being dead, yet speaketh." J. W. Allen
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