Dade-Polk County GaArchives Deed.....Miller, James - Prior, Ephrane (or Ephraine) W. November 14 1856 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cynthia Forde rebjar@direcway.com May 20, 2004, 9:24 am Lot # 246, Dist. 10, Sec. 4, 160 Acres Written: November 14 1856 Recorded: February 24 1857 Submitter: The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Vold Forde 25487 Old Howth Road Hempstead, Texas 77445 Copied by Sue Parham Forrester HC-65-Box 715 Cloudland, Georgia 30731 Copied: 17 May 1990 Clerk of Superior Court Office Dade County, Georgia Book ‘D’ p. 362 LOT #246 (Dist. 10, Section 4) 160 Acres 14 November 1856 Sale: Ephram W. Prior to James Miller The State of Georgia Polk, County This indenture made this fourteenth day of November, 1856 between Ephram W. Prior of the one part and James Miller of the other part witneseth that the said Prior for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars to him in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged both bargained and sold to the said Miller all of that lot of land known as N. 246 in the 10th district and 4th section lying in the county of Dade and being the lot drawn by the said Ephram W. Prior containing one hundred sixty acres more or less the title to said lot of land I bind myself my heirs and will forever warrant and defend the same to the said James Miller his heirs and asignes in fee simple and forever given under my hand and seal this the fourteenth day of 1856. Test. Charles G. Knight John Miller Ephram W. Prior (seal) Georgia Dade County Personally appeared before me Robert H. Tatum, Notary Public for said county, John Miller, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he saw the within deed signed sealed and delivered by Ephraine W. Prior for the purposes therein named that he saw Charles G. Knight sign the same as a witness and that deponent also signed the same as a witness sworn to and subscribed before me this second day of January 1857. R.H. Tatum Notary Public John Miller Registered Feb. 24th 1857 H.L.W. Allison, Additional Comments: James Monroe Miller was b. April 11, 1827 TN, d. Oct. 1, 1864, Johnson Island Prison Camp, Ohio. He married(July 24, 1851, Trenton) Elizabeth Catherine Killian b. Apr. 11, 1834, d. March, 21 1864 He was the son of John Miller and Nancy Mary Wilson, b. born in TN. The Millers removed to Dade County, GA ca. 1835 where they raised a family on the farm now known as 'the old Lambeth place." The family purchased land between 1835 (although we have no record) and 1859; they began to sell about that time and migrated to Arkansas. James, along with his brothers, served the CSA; he died in a prison camp. his parents raised their children after his wife died. Excerpt from THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM THOMAS KILLIAN 8/14/1996 M. LUTHER KILLIAN 1155 SIMMS HTS. RD. KINGSTON SP. TENNESSEE 37082 Elizabeth Catherine, the youngest child of William and Elizabeth Killian, married James Monroe Miller. They left Dade County about 1860, with their children, William Samuel, Nancy Elizabeth, and their newborn baby, John 'Nelson" and James' parents and other relatives The Miller families were heading to Texas but settled in Polk county, Arkansas in the town of Mena. James was fighting in the Civil War when Eizabeth gave birth to their fourth child, Robert Morgan. In the winter of 1864-65, elizabeth left her children with her father-in-law, John Miller, and went to lok for James. accompanying her was Mary Jane, James' sister. After traveling by horseback during the harsh winter, Elizabeth returned to Mena where she soon died of pnuemonia apparently never knowing that James had died the previous October in a prisoner-of-war camp at Johnson Island, Ohio. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb