Jacob MILLER

Family 1 : ?

  1.  George MILLER, b. March 1753, Hampshire (now Shenandoah) Co., VA; d. BEFORE OCTOBER 1829, Shenandoah Co., VA; m. Elizabeth MILLER, b. ABOUT 1754.
  2.  Anthony MILLER
  3.  Jacob MILLER
  4. +Barbara MILLER

 

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Notes:

From Forerunners: A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families Their Kith and Kin, by Harry M. Strickler (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1925), p. 259, footnote:

Barbara Miller was the daughter of Jacob Miller, Sr., founder of Muellerstadt (Woodstock).

 

 

From Hardy Co., VA Estate Sale, Febuary 1822:

HARDY CO (W) VA WILL BOOK , VOL 3 (1819-1824), p. 143: Estate Sale for George Wilkins, 12 Feb 1822. Buyers include Abraham Barb, Abraham Fravel, Benjamin Fravel, Reuben Fravel, William Fravel, Anthony Miller, George Miller Sr., Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller of Shenandoah, John Miller, William Miller, Michael Trumbo, Caty Wilkins, Lydia Wilkins and others. Adms: George Wilkins and Jacob Wilkins.

 

 

There was also a George Miller who is probably related. From A History of Shenandoah County Virginia, by John W. Wayland (Shenandoah Publishing House, Strasburg, VA: 1927), from a caption of a picture of an old bible on p. 70:

THIS OLD GERMAN BIBLE was mutilated by the Indians when they killed George Miller, his wife, and several of his children near Strasburg in 1764. An attempt was made to burn the house by placing a coal of fire in the Bible and closing the leaves; but the heavy lids weighted with the family cat, which had also shared a bloody fate, smothered the fire... This old heirloom, a souvenir of tragedy, is carefully perserved by Mr. Levi Miller, a descendant of George Miller, one of whose sons escaped the massacre.

 

 

 

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