Dade-Walker County GaArchives Deed.....Morgan, Rud A. - Miller, James May 3 1857 ************************************************ 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, 10:44 am Written: May 3 1857 Recorded: May 15 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 17 May 1990 Clerk of Superior Court Office Dade County, Georgia Book ‘D’ p. 380 LOT #246 (Dist. 10) 160 Acres 3 May 1857 Sale: James Miller to Rud A. Morgan Georgia, Walker County This indenture made this third day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty seven between Rud A. Morgan of the County Dade and State of Georgia of the one part and James Miller of the same county and state aforesaid of the other part. Witneseth that for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars in hand paid by the said Rud A. Morgan the receipt thereof is fully acknowledged the sealing and delivery of these presents hath bargained and sold and does by these presents grant bargain and sell unto Rud A. Morgan all that tract or parcel of land known and distinguished as Lot No. 246 lying in the Tenth District and Fourth Section of Dade County one hundred sixty acres be the same more or less and James Miller do for myself, my heirs and asignes warrant and forever defend the right and title of the hereby described land against my self and all other persons laws fully claiming the same unto Rud A. Morgan, his heirs and asignes for eve in fee simple signed sealed and delivered in the presence of: Thomas T. Morgan E. S. Rogers Clerk Superior Court James Miller (seal Registered May 15th, 1857 H. L. W. Allison D. Clerk Additional Comments: JOHN MILLER - Source: Western Arkansas Autobiographies: George R. Miller John Miller was born to James Miller in Tennessee in the year of our Lord, 1803. His father, James was Scotch Irish and a Staunch Presbyterian whose immigrant father settled near Charleston, South Carolina in 1758 . In 1826, John Miller married Nancy Mary Wilson, of Tennessee, the daughter of Joseph Wilson, a farmer and a trader. Nancy Mary and John are listed in the 1830 Federal Census of Monroe County, Tennessee. In 1835, the Millers and their children purchased $3000.00 worth of land in Dade County, Georgia., Dist. No. 21, near Rising Fawn. John Miller was a county and probate judge as well as a substantial farmer according to a biography by his son, George R. Miller, of Polk County, Arkansas. Early records show they were of the Presbyterian Denomination who later embraced the Methodist Episcopal church. Five of the sons served the Confederacy; Joseph died in a prison camp. A daughter, Elizabeth, died giving birth to her first daughter. She is the only Miller buried in the beautiful Miller Cemetery located on the plantation. Elizabeth was married to Casper Tatum. The daughter of Elizabeth and Casper, Nancy Tatum, was raised by the Tatums initially, but is buried in Arkansas near her Miller grandparents. Four of the sons married women from Dade County: George R. Miller married Martha Davis, Joseph married her sister, Sarah Davis. James married Elizabeth Killian; John Thornton Miller married Sara L Russell. Federal Census p. 125, TN599343463 1850 US Census, Dade County, Georgia; p. 13 A- District No. 21, August 25, 1850 by Stephen L. Pace 169-169 John MILLER, 46, m. farmer, value of real estate owned: $3000.00 born: Tennessee Married within the year (this must be an error... or it refers to one of the children) Mary, 44, f, b. Tennessee - cannot read or write Mary, 13, f, b. Georgia John, 10, m. b: Georgia William, 8, m, b: Georgia Columbus, 5, m b: Georgia Hiram, 3, m. b: Georgia James, 22, m. Farmer, b: Tennessee (married Elizabeth Catherine Killian) Joseph 20, m. Farmer, b. Tennessee George, 16, m, Farmer, b: Tennessee This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb