Ross County OhArchives Obituaries.....Miller, Thomas July 17, 1821 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ralph Cokonougher rcokon@hotmail.com April 22, 2006, 3:53 pm Widow's Pension application of Ann Miller, as reported in "Frederick's Findings". Vol. 1, #4, 1988, Lineage Search Assc.,, Arlington, Va. Ann Miller applied for a widow's pension in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on 22 October 1838, age 71 years, 2 months, stating her husband (sic Thomas Miller) had enlisted (sic) as an ensign on 16 May 1777, was promoted to Lieutenant on 4 April 1778 and discharged on 31 December 1781 (According to Gwathmey, Miller was transferred to the 1st Virginia Regiment, service that neither Thomas nor his widow mentioned, on 12 February 1782; he gave no date for Thomas' discharge). She said her husband was a native of Cecil County, Maryland, where two sisters - Agnes Williams and Deborah Miller - and a brother John M. still resided near Farmington Post Office and Port Deposit. She had married Miller in Chesterfield County on 7 August 1784, resided in Cecil County for perhaps two years before returning to Chesterfield County and Virginia, then MOVING TO CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, WHERE THOMAS HAD DIED ON 17 JULY 1821. She further stated she knew of no living witnesses to her marriage except 2 brothers, but the elder Archer Ball was now senile and the younger Isham Ball was at the time of her marriage too young to remember. Ann's application was supported by testimony from Thomas T. Miller and Isham Ball, both dated 10 November 1838. Ball's affidavit stated he was the youngest child of James and Susan Ball of Chesterfield County and a resident of Powhatan County, Virginia. Miller's affidavit mentioned a previous affidavit of 3 January 1825 that established Thomas Miller was the son of Samuel Miller of Cecil County, Maryland, and had died at the home of Stephen Cessna. The pension file (W7454) did not contain the date or place of Ann's death. It did, however, contain letters of inquiry from: 1)Thomas Cecil Miller (7 June 1897); 2) Mrs. H.C. Johnson (4 March 1898); 3)Lynn Chapman (27 April 1903); and 4)Virginia A. Speir (3 October 1920). Miller also received a bounty, issued 19 December 1791, for 200 acres (BLWt. 1516), which he assigned to Daniel Parker. Due to the burning of Washington during the War of 1812 no papers from his application for that land survive and thus no additional information survives." Additional Comments: The above information on Ross County, Ohio resident, and Revolutionary war veteran, Thomas Miller is more of a record of a death than an obituary, and is from "Frederick Findings", Volume 1, No. 4, Fall, 1988, a publication of Lineage Search Associates, P.O. Box 9688; Arlington, Virginia. "Frederick Findings" states, on the reverse of its title page, "Attribution: As it is the desire of the editor and publisher to make more widely available the material and information we publish, we ask only proper attribution of 'Frederick Findings' as a source if it is used in any form." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/ross/obits/miller362nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb