Dawson County, MT

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Submitted by:
Gene Hutson
fishrus@cableone.net



Daniel F. and Sarah (Coblentz) Miller Children Hold Reunion


A reunion was held by the D.F. Miller children on the 4th of 
July 1963 on the home farm 5 miles east of Bloomfield, now 
owned and operated by Jens Scarpholt.  

Those present were Samuel Miller and family of Wolford, North 
Dakota, Nathan Miller and family of Miles City, Montana, 
Mose Miller of Pistol River, Oregon, Sadie (Miller) Kauffman and
family, Ezra miller and family, Daniel Miller, Clara (Miller) 
Scarpholt and family all of Bloomfield also an aunt and a 
number of cousins.

The program was given in the afternoon, several vocal 
and instrumental numbers were given also some speeches were made.

Mose Miller told how the D.F. Miller and Eli Chupp families 
in 1904, traveled in covered wagon from the Turtle Mountains 
area in northern North Dakota to Snowden where they crossed the 
Missouri River on a ferry and up the Yellowstone Valley to 
the 13 Mile Creek and on to where they settled.

He and Ammon Chupp, only 8 year old boys, rode horseback 
and drove their herd of cattle and horses all the way.

Mose Miller told how a Post Office was established and was 
called Adams, then in 1908 it was moved to a store 5 miles 
farther west. There the name was changed to Bloomfield Post
Office.