HISTORY  OF CLAY COUNTY              387

relatives. he journeyed westward to Ohio, camping and cooking by the
wayside during the six weeks traveling. In this colony was Mr. Millers
widowed grandmother, her seven sons and her two daughters. Christian
Miller located first in Medina county but two years later joined the
remainder of the colony in Summit county, he bought land in Copley
township. and while he worked at his trade of a stone mason his sons
improved a good farm, on which he and his family lived until 1860 In
September of that year he sold out and came to Indiana. locating near
Lancaster  Owen county. where he resided two years. Coming then to
Clay county, he bought land in Harrison township and on the small
patch which had been cleared built a log cabin for himself and family.
He was successful in adding to the improvements of his property, and a
few months later erected a larger house of hewn logs in which he resided
until his death, August 25. 1866. He married Elizabeth Mill, who was
born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and died in Clay county, Indiana.
June 5, 1892, aged seventy-three years. Her father, John Mill, was born.
reared and married in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, but spent the later
years of his life in Medina county. Ohio. Of the union of Christian and
Elizabeth Miller nine children were born, namely Isaac, the special sub-
ject of this sketch Esom, who died at the age of twelve years Charles
enlisted during the Civil war in Company K. Forty—first Indiana Volun-
teer Cavalry, and was killed in battle at Triune, Tennessee, when but
nineteen years old William Messiah died in childhood Jacob died when
two years old Almira Stisanna and Amanda.
    But five years old when his parents removed to Ohio. Isaac Miller
was there educated, attending school quite regularly during the winter
terms until twenty years of age In 1860 he came with the family to
Indiana, and on September 10, 1861 , enlisted in Company K, Forty—first
Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, which was attached to the Second Indiana
Cavalry,, and was sent south. He subsequently veteranized, and was with
his regiment in all of its marches, campaigns and battles . At West Point.
Georgia, he was captured by the Rebels. but after twenty-four hours of
captivity he with two comrades escaped. Swimming the Chattahoochee
river, they found themselves in a strange country, but knowing that they
must go towards the northeast took the sun for a guide, and in ten days
rejoined their companions, who had supposed them dead. At Selma,
Alabama, while charging the breastworks of the enemy, Mr. Miller was
wounded in the left foot, and for sometime was unable to wear a boot,
but he being mounted he kept with his command just the same. During
the time that he was in the service, Air. Miller was in Kentucky, Ten-
nessee, Louisiana, Alississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. and
took an active part in eleven general engagements, including tbe battles
at Pittsbtirg Landing and Chickamauga, and those of Sherman on his
march to Atlanta and on to the sea. With his regiment he was honorably
discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, in July, 1865. Previous to enlisting,
Mr. Miller had learned the trade of a stone mason under his father’s
instructions, and after his return home worked at it for awhile, at the
same time doing more or less farming. Succeeding to the ownership of
the old homestead in Harrison township on the death of his father, he has
since resided here. He has made improvements of an excellent character,
including the erection of a substantial set of frame buildings and the
setting out of fruit and shade trees, greatly enhancing the value of the
estate and adding to its attractiveness.