John Miller is the son of Christian E Miller & Catharine Wiseman. He married twice:
1st - Sophia Clendenin on 26 Jan 1806 in Shenandoah County VA.
2nd - Sarah Henderson on 23 Oct 1823.
Birth, death & burial per various sources available on www.ancestry.com and from researcher Jenna_Rousch when she posted the following:
going west
Posted 22 Oct 2011 by Jenna_Roush
John Miller traveled west to the Kanawha Valley in 1795 to make his fortune with forty pounds. He stoppped at Ft. Clendenin, where he met his future wife. He later settled in Gallipolis where he found but two other people who could speak English, a Colonel Safford and a Mr. Murry. In order to converse he had to learn French and German. Here he followed the business of a hatter until 1810 when he abandoned it for farming, which was more to his taste. January 26, 1806 he married Sophia Clendenin. In 1810 he moved his family across the Ohio to Virginia where he purchased a part of the farm known as "Elwell", home of Judge C.P.T. Moore. In the valley between the hill and river he built a brick house one and one half stories high with big rooms and a wide hall on the first floor. The Elwell place was given to John Miller's eldest son Cristopher, who sold it to Judge Moore. His family moved to Teays Valley in 1819 and bought 1000 acres on the Richmond and Lexington turnpike. In 1831 they moved to the Kanawha Valley, four miles from Point Pleasant (last move). This farm is called Locust Hill, and five miles further, another called Beech Hill. The two together contained about nine hundred acres. On June 12, 1838 he divided his land and slaves among his children of his first wife, except the Kanawha land and nine negroes which he retained for his second wife's children. He was a master mason for over forty years. John died of quinsy on March 19, 1846 and is buried at Steenbergen cemetary, but has no marker.
1st - Sophia Clendenin on 26 Jan 1806 in Shenandoah County VA.
2nd - Sarah Henderson on 23 Oct 1823.
Birth, death & burial per various sources available on www.ancestry.com and from researcher Jenna_Rousch when she posted the following:
going west
Posted 22 Oct 2011 by Jenna_Roush
John Miller traveled west to the Kanawha Valley in 1795 to make his fortune with forty pounds. He stoppped at Ft. Clendenin, where he met his future wife. He later settled in Gallipolis where he found but two other people who could speak English, a Colonel Safford and a Mr. Murry. In order to converse he had to learn French and German. Here he followed the business of a hatter until 1810 when he abandoned it for farming, which was more to his taste. January 26, 1806 he married Sophia Clendenin. In 1810 he moved his family across the Ohio to Virginia where he purchased a part of the farm known as "Elwell", home of Judge C.P.T. Moore. In the valley between the hill and river he built a brick house one and one half stories high with big rooms and a wide hall on the first floor. The Elwell place was given to John Miller's eldest son Cristopher, who sold it to Judge Moore. His family moved to Teays Valley in 1819 and bought 1000 acres on the Richmond and Lexington turnpike. In 1831 they moved to the Kanawha Valley, four miles from Point Pleasant (last move). This farm is called Locust Hill, and five miles further, another called Beech Hill. The two together contained about nine hundred acres. On June 12, 1838 he divided his land and slaves among his children of his first wife, except the Kanawha land and nine negroes which he retained for his second wife's children. He was a master mason for over forty years. John died of quinsy on March 19, 1846 and is buried at Steenbergen cemetary, but has no marker.
John Miller is the son of Christian E Miller & Catharine Wiseman. He married twice:
1st - Sophia Clendenin on 26 Jan 1806 in Shenandoah County VA.
2nd - Sarah Henderson on 23 Oct 1823.
Birth, death & burial per various sources available on www.ancestry.com and from researcher Jenna_Rousch when she posted the following:
going west
Posted 22 Oct 2011 by Jenna_Roush
John Miller traveled west to the Kanawha Valley in 1795 to make his fortune with forty pounds. He stoppped at Ft. Clendenin, where he met his future wife. He later settled in Gallipolis where he found but two other people who could speak English, a Colonel Safford and a Mr. Murry. In order to converse he had to learn French and German. Here he followed the business of a hatter until 1810 when he abandoned it for farming, which was more to his taste. January 26, 1806 he married Sophia Clendenin. In 1810 he moved his family across the Ohio to Virginia where he purchased a part of the farm known as "Elwell", home of Judge C.P.T. Moore. In the valley between the hill and river he built a brick house one and one half stories high with big rooms and a wide hall on the first floor. The Elwell place was given to John Miller's eldest son Cristopher, who sold it to Judge Moore. His family moved to Teays Valley in 1819 and bought 1000 acres on the Richmond and Lexington turnpike. In 1831 they moved to the Kanawha Valley, four miles from Point Pleasant (last move). This farm is called Locust Hill, and five miles further, another called Beech Hill. The two together contained about nine hundred acres. On June 12, 1838 he divided his land and slaves among his children of his first wife, except the Kanawha land and nine negroes which he retained for his second wife's children. He was a master mason for over forty years. John died of quinsy on March 19, 1846 and is buried at Steenbergen cemetary, but has no marker.
1st - Sophia Clendenin on 26 Jan 1806 in Shenandoah County VA.
2nd - Sarah Henderson on 23 Oct 1823.
Birth, death & burial per various sources available on www.ancestry.com and from researcher Jenna_Rousch when she posted the following:
going west
Posted 22 Oct 2011 by Jenna_Roush
John Miller traveled west to the Kanawha Valley in 1795 to make his fortune with forty pounds. He stoppped at Ft. Clendenin, where he met his future wife. He later settled in Gallipolis where he found but two other people who could speak English, a Colonel Safford and a Mr. Murry. In order to converse he had to learn French and German. Here he followed the business of a hatter until 1810 when he abandoned it for farming, which was more to his taste. January 26, 1806 he married Sophia Clendenin. In 1810 he moved his family across the Ohio to Virginia where he purchased a part of the farm known as "Elwell", home of Judge C.P.T. Moore. In the valley between the hill and river he built a brick house one and one half stories high with big rooms and a wide hall on the first floor. The Elwell place was given to John Miller's eldest son Cristopher, who sold it to Judge Moore. His family moved to Teays Valley in 1819 and bought 1000 acres on the Richmond and Lexington turnpike. In 1831 they moved to the Kanawha Valley, four miles from Point Pleasant (last move). This farm is called Locust Hill, and five miles further, another called Beech Hill. The two together contained about nine hundred acres. On June 12, 1838 he divided his land and slaves among his children of his first wife, except the Kanawha land and nine negroes which he retained for his second wife's children. He was a master mason for over forty years. John died of quinsy on March 19, 1846 and is buried at Steenbergen cemetary, but has no marker.
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