Daniel David Miller was born in Indiana sometime in the mid-1830's. He was the third of seven children born to Simon Miller and his wife, Sarah Erlewine Miller.

 In 1850, the family was still living in Indiana, in Lafayette. By the time of the 1860 Census, the family had moved to Salem, Missouri, and Daniel, who was in his mid-20's, was still living with them. Sometime between June 29, 1860, and March, 1861, Daniel found himself in lowa.

On March 17, 1861, Daniel married Martha Jane Duncan in Warren County, lowa.

 Martha Jane Duncan was born about 1845, also in Indiana. She was the second oldest of four children born to George Duncan and his wife, Eliza Cartwright. When Martha was about four, her mother died and her father remarried to Mariah Louisa Smith. They then had six more children. Martha's family moved from Indiana to lowa sometime between 1850 and 1860.

 After Daniel and Martha were married, they continued to live in lowa. In August, 1862, Daniel enlisted in Company C of the 34th lowa Infantry and fought in the Civil War. According to one of his descendants, he was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863 which brought an end to his military service. He later received a pension of $12 every three months for his military service.

 After his involvement in the war ended, Daniel went back to White Oak, lowa where he and Martha lived off and on until some time between 1870 and 1875. Daniel had become a blacksmith and pursued that trade for the rest of his life. Daniel and Martha had eight children, all girls, who lived to maturity. They were:



Elva Anna, born in 1862, in lowa 

Sarah Eliza, born in 1865, in Missouri 

Delia E., born in 1870, in lowa 

Susan Pearl, born in 1876, in Kansas 

Rose Etta, born in 1878, in Kansas 

Nellie Grace, born in 1880, in Kansas 

Jessie Maude, born in 1884, in Kansas 

Frankie Jane, born in 1886, in Kansas


According to Martha's obituary, she had a total of twelve children. It is supposed that four died at childbirth since no record of them has ever been found.

 Based on oral family history, Daniel and Martha and their family made the famous land run of 1889 and homesteaded in Indian Territory near the current town of Ramona, Oklahoma. There is some evidence to suggest that they may have moved to Colorado for a time but no facts to corroborate that have been found. 



In 1899, Daniel passed away and was buried in Ramona, near Bartlesville. By the following year, Martha was living in Township 29N, Range 22E which is very near the Kansas state line and near Commerce, Oklahoma. At that time, she had Rose, Jessie, and Frankie living with her. By the time of the 1910 Census, Martha was back in Washington County, near Ramona. She died in 1916 and is buried beside her husband in the Ramona Cemetery.



Elva Miller, the oldest daughter, married in 1880 when the Millers were still living in Winfield, Kansas. She and her new husband, William Barker, followed the Millers to Washington County, Oklahoma except for a brief period of time when their youngest son was born in Washington State.

 For a period of time when the Barkers were living in Ramona, Elva's niece, Sedelia Nash, one of Susan Pearl's children, lived with them.

 William Barker died in 1929 and his wife, Elva, in 1940. They are both buried in Washington County, Oklahoma.


The second daughter, Sarah Eliza, was the only one of the girls born in Missouri. As stated earlier, the family then went back to Iowa, then to Winfield, Kansas.

 In 1884, Sarah married Ephraim Leonard Dunn who was from Indiana and they continued to live in Kansas for a time. They eventually wound up in the Oklahoma Panhandle where he farmed. They had a total of seven children, six boys and a girl.

In August, 1917, Sarah and Ephraim both died within three days of each other. He was 57 and she was 51. It might be supposed that they died of the influenza pandemic which was sweeping the World but their obituaries listed her cause of death as tuberculosis and his as cancer.

 As an aside, Ephraim had several brothers and a sister who were notorious outlaws. His sister, Rose Dunn, was known as the Rose of the Cimarron and has been written about many times. She was known to have hidden with her gang in the hills around Mannford, Oklahoma. She did eventually give that life up and moved to Washington State.



Delia E. was the third child born to the Millers and her middle name has never been discovered. There are several variants on her first name including, Delilah, Dea Lilah, and Delia. Based on Census records, Delia was living with her parents until at least 1885 when she was 15. No further record of her exists until 1910 when she married Theodore Lewis Gervens in Newton, Kansas. She was 41 years old at the time. Both the bride and groom listed their addresses as Colorado. 

Delia and Theodore lived the rest of their lives in Colorado, mostly in the Denver area. They were referred to as Aunt Dea and Uncle Thee by their nieces and nephews. 

Interestingly, Theodore's brother, John Michael Gervens, was married to Arletta Florence Nash, Edward Everett Nash's sister, for 10 years from 1912 to 1922. Brothers were married to aunt and niece. Both families lived in the Denver area during this time.



Susan Pearl Miller was the fourth daughter born to Daniel and Martha Miller. She was in the Denver, Colorado area with her sisters during this time period.



Rose Etta Miller, the fifth daughter, lived with her parents, then her mother, until she married Marcus Bland in 1909. The wedding took place in Ramona. Rose had given birth to a daughter, Blanche, in 1896 but the father was never identified. Blanche used the surname Miller all her life. Marcus was an oilfield driller from West Virginia – he and Rose moved to Mannford, Oklahoma shortly after 1910, where their first two children were born. They then moved to Schulter, Oklahoma where they had their third child and where they remained for the rest of their lives. Marcus died in 1957 and Rose in 1958. 

Interestingly, in 1951, Rose Bland signed Edward E. Nash's delayed birth certificate as a witness to his birth.



The sixth daughter, Nellie Grace, was born in Winfield, Kansas in 1880. She married Frank Lowe in 1896 when she was sixteen and they had three children together before they divorced, sometime after 1902. During this period they lived in Oklahoma the entire time. 

In 1909, she remarried, this time to James C. Adkins. She and James had three children as well; all were born in Oklahoma. Sometime between 1930 and 1934, the couple moved to Denver and lived there the rest of their lives.
 One of Nellie and James' sons, Merle Adkins, married Faith Cornett. Faith was a niece of James Adair, Susan Pearl Nash's third husband.

Jessie Maude Miller was the seventh girl born in the family, in 1884. In 1902, at the age of 18, she married Leonidas Frederick Brown. She and Leonidas had twelve children, two girls and ten boys. Unlike several of the other girls, Jessie did not migrate to Colorado. She and her husband moved to Arkansas sometime between 1925 and 1930 and lived there the rest of their lives. She died in 1930 at the age of 46; he outlived her by 36 years and died at the age of 90.



The youngest daughter, Frankie Jane, was born in Winfield, Kansas, in 1886 and married William Partin in 1906. They had three children and were divorced in 1930, shortly after they had moved to Roseburg, Oregon. In 1951, Frankie married Jesse Richardson in Oregon. He died in September, 1959 at age 78 and she died in 1969 at age 82.