Bartholomew County IN Archives Biographies.....Miller, Francis 1802 - 
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

FRANCIS MILLER.

   Francis Miller, an old and prominent resident of Bartholomew county, was a
native of Henry county, Kentucky, and was born on the 10th of April, 1802. He
was the eldest of a family of eight children born to Ephraim and Jemima (Allen)
Miller. The parents were both natives of Virginia rand were early residents of
Kentucky. In 1821 the family came to Bartholomew county, Indiana, where, amid
the stirring scenes of pioneer times, the early manhood of the subject was
passed, having been nineteen years of age when he became a resident of Indiana.
In his native state he attended a few terms of subscription school in the old
fashioned log school house, with puncheon benches and greased paper windows, and
by diligent application obtained a good knowledge of the branches usually taught
in those days. When his father settled in Clay township, Bartholomew county, the
country was wild, and his first experience in his new home was assisting in the
erection of a diminutive log cabin, barely large enough to shelter three persons
and -the few household goods and farming implements necessary to begin life in
the back-woods. Hard work and its attendant privations were the common lot for a
few years, but in time the farm was cleared, Francis bearing his full share of
the labor necessary to develop and bring the same under cultivation. He remained
with his parents until his twenty-fifth year and then was joined in marriage
with Miss Matilda May, of Kentucky, daughter of Gabriel May, the ceremony having
been solemnized in February, 1827. For one year after marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Miller lived with the former's parents, but at the end of that time moved to his
own place, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, in section 20, which he had
previously purchased from the government. Here they lived for many years and
brought the place up to a high standard, making many substantial improvements,
the farm ranking among the best in the township.

   The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Miller: Gabriel E., Umphrey,
Henry C., George A., William, Elizabeth, Susan Matilda and Nancy. Mr. Miller was
for many years a member of the Christian church and in every walk of life he was
an exemplary citizen and a true type of the courteous gentleman. Politically he
was a Republican.


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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER


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