Otto Traugott Miller

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Otto Traugott Miller

Birth
Gordonville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
Death
24 Sep 1974 (aged 94)
Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Born Otto Traugott Mueller, son of Charles (Carl) August Mueller (Muller) and Pauline Friederike Henkel in Gordonville, MO.
On 30 Sep 1908 he married Lillie May Harmon in Allenville. The Rev. C.B. Ford performed the ceremony.
According to family lore the last name became "Miller" toward the end of WWI, when Lillie went out to the mailbox and changed the spelling.
Otto died suddenly while mowing his yard at the age of 94 years 5 months and 23 days.

Obituary in the Southeast Missourian Cape Girardeau, MO on 25 Sept 1974.

Otto Miller
Jackson – Otto T. Miller of Jackson, 94 years old, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon at 2:45 at the family home.
Mr. Miller was born March 31, 1880, at Gordonville. On Sept. 30, 1908, he was married to Miss Lillie May Harmon at Glen Allen. They farmed in the Gordonville area for many years, moving to Jackson in 1948.
Surviving: his wife; son, Otto L. Miller Jr., Jackson; five daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Headrick and Mrs. Edna Mae Allen, Jackson, Mrs. August Barranco, Columbia, SC, Mrs. Polly Nickerson, Kingston, NY, and Mrs. Carl Nickerson, Saugerties, NY; sister, Mrs. Pete Snell, Cape Girardeau; 17 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.
Service will be held Friday afternoon at 2 at the McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson, by the Rev. Earl E. Weis, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church. Burial is to be in Russell Heights Cemetery, Jackson.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 tonight.
Born Otto Traugott Mueller, son of Charles (Carl) August Mueller (Muller) and Pauline Friederike Henkel in Gordonville, MO.
On 30 Sep 1908 he married Lillie May Harmon in Allenville. The Rev. C.B. Ford performed the ceremony.
According to family lore the last name became "Miller" toward the end of WWI, when Lillie went out to the mailbox and changed the spelling.
Otto died suddenly while mowing his yard at the age of 94 years 5 months and 23 days.

Obituary in the Southeast Missourian Cape Girardeau, MO on 25 Sept 1974.

Otto Miller
Jackson – Otto T. Miller of Jackson, 94 years old, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon at 2:45 at the family home.
Mr. Miller was born March 31, 1880, at Gordonville. On Sept. 30, 1908, he was married to Miss Lillie May Harmon at Glen Allen. They farmed in the Gordonville area for many years, moving to Jackson in 1948.
Surviving: his wife; son, Otto L. Miller Jr., Jackson; five daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Headrick and Mrs. Edna Mae Allen, Jackson, Mrs. August Barranco, Columbia, SC, Mrs. Polly Nickerson, Kingston, NY, and Mrs. Carl Nickerson, Saugerties, NY; sister, Mrs. Pete Snell, Cape Girardeau; 17 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.
Service will be held Friday afternoon at 2 at the McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson, by the Rev. Earl E. Weis, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church. Burial is to be in Russell Heights Cemetery, Jackson.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 tonight.

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