Michael Benjamin Miller (1845-1923) - Find a Grave Memorial

Michael Benjamin Miller

Birth

30 Aug 1845

Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA

Death

15 Mar 1923 (aged 77)

Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA

Burial

Bayview Cemetery

Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA Add to Map

Plot

SECTION 4, Lot 16, Grave 7-A

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He was the son of Jacob Miller 1812-1880 and Mary Polly Gray Miller 1810-1849.

Marriage 1
Malinda Jane HULL b: AUG 1847 in Boone County, Iowa, USA
Married: 26 JUL 1906 in Nebraska, USA
Married: 3 JAN 1903 in Holt Co., Nebraska, USA
Children
William E MILLER b: ABT 1871 in Iowa

Marriage 2:
Mary Elizabeth Hull -1905,
Married: 13 JAN 1867 in Boone County, Iowa

Children of Michael and Mary:
Albert N. Miller 1867-,
William Edward Miller 1870-1944,
John W. Miller 1872-1888,
Edith Adehlia Miller 1874-1940,
Sara Amelia Miller 1876-1961,
Michael Bertrum Miller 1878-1935,
Charles Ernest Miller 1880-1966,
Frank Albert Miller 1882-,
Mary E. Miller 1886-,
James Harry Miller 1887-,
David D. Miller 1890-1890,
Jesta O. Blanche Miller 1892-1988

He lived in Beaver, Pennsylvania; Holt, Nebraska; Nevada, Story, Iowa, Paddock, Holt, Nebraska; Bellingham, Watcom, Washington.

40TH IA INFANTRY CO D .Military Service AUG 1865 Oklahoma
Note: mustered out as Drummer in Iowa Union Army. Company D, 40th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment BET 22 AUG 1862 AND 02 AUG 1865.

Michael Miller, chaplain of J. B. Steadman Post No. 24, of the G. A. R., and ten years a Bellingham resident, died at a local hospital yesterday afternoon at the age of 77 years. Death was due to a paralytic stroke suffered last Friday. Mr. Miller resided at 2634 Michigan street. In the civil war Mr. Miller served in an Iowa regiment and for fifteen years after the war's close he was pastor of a Methodist church in Nebraska. The survivors are the widow; five sons, William and Frank, of Bellingham; Michael, Charles and James H., of Nebraska; four daughters, Mrs. Edith Crook, of Nebraska; Mrs. Sarah Smith, Mrs. Mary Lamb and Mrs. Blanche Hayne, of Montana; one brother William, of Norfolk, Mont.; forty-four grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren.
From The Bellingham Herald, March 16, 1923)

1860 Census:
Jacob Y. Meiller 51, 1809, farmer, Bavaria, Germany [Anna's father]
Eleanor Meiller, 52, 1808, Pennsylvania
David Meiller, 19, 1841, farm laborer, Pennslylvania Michael Meiller, 15, 1845, Pennsylvania
William Meiller, 8, 1852, Pennsylvania,
Nevada, Story Co., Iowa

1883: Paddock, Holt Co., Nebraska

1920 Census:
Michael Miller 74
Melinda J Miller 72
William E Miller 49
Gertie E Hoyer 27
Wilmer J Hoyer 12,
Bellingham Ward 2, Whatcom, Washington