Adam MILLER Jr.

  General Notes:

BIOGRAPHY: Adam Miller was born near Zanesville, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1819, and is a son of Adam and Sarah (Prior) Miller, who removed with their family to this county in 1830. He was reared to hard work and received a limited education in a subscription school taught in a log house, with slab seats, and a board supported on pins in the wall for writing desks. His teachers were of the "ox-gad persuasion." He was married in December, 1838, to Miss Mercy A. Mead, by whom he has had 8 children. Those living are Eli, Leeo, Anna and Julius. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and owns 30 acres of land. Mr. and Mrs. Miller and all their children are members of the Christian Church. ["History of St. Joseph County, Indiana", published 1880 by C.C. Chapman & Company, 971 pages] -- Note that the date of marriage conflicts with their Indiana marriage certificate.

NAME: Listed as co-Executor on the Will of the Rev. Adam Miller Sr. (his father-in-law) dated 21 Jul 1854.

  Research Notes:

-- "Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph counties, Indiana", published 1893 by Goodspeed Brothers, 775 pages
-- Find A Grave, Memorial # 81669513 (date of death listed on his Find A Grave memorial page does not exactly match the date of death on his headstone)
-- Miller Data (Journal) by C.E. Smith; privately held by Esther (Bly) Hietala, Grand Rapids, Minnesota (with additional material provided by Richard E. Bartz, Falcon Heights, Minnesota)

Adam married Mercy Ann MEAD, daughter of Eli B. MEAD and Hannah SNYDER, on 20 Apr 1839 in St. Joseph County, Indiana. (Mercy Ann MEAD was born on 17 Dec 1818 in Dearborn County, Indiana, died on 2 Feb 1901 in Rolling Prairie, St. Joseph County, Indiana and was buried in Mishawaka City Cemetery, St. Joseph County, Indiana.)