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MILLER Family History, Part V

Nancy (MILLER) WEAVER (1813-1894)

11HBG1. Nancy Miller was born June 25, 1813, in Ohio. She married George Weaver in 1835 in Montgomery County, Ohio. She and George had at least eight children:

11HBG11.	Elizabeth Weaver	(1836)	--	--
11HBG12.	Mary Weaver	(1839)	--	--
11HBG13.	Roxanna Weaver	(1844)	--	--
11HBG14.	Joseph Weaver	Oct 1844	--	--
11HBG15.	Perry Weaver	(1847)	(1850-1860)	(3-13)
11HBG16.	Jeremiah Weaver	(Feb 1850)	--	--
11HBG17.	Sarah J. Weaver	(1854)	--	--
11HBG18.	Martha E. Weaver	(1857)	--	--

The Weaver family moved from Ohio into Indiana during the early 1840's, settling in Hector, Noble Township, Jay County, Indiana, by the 1850 census.

George Weaver died at the age of 82 on November 27, 1893, in Wayne, Jay County, Indiana.

Nancy (Miller) Weaver died a year later in Wayne on December 2, 1894. She was 81 years old.

Mary Magdalena MILLER^Δ (~1814-<1870)

11HBG2. Mary Magdalena Miller^Δ was born about 1813 or 1814 in Ohio^{[Cen 1850]}, likely in Montgomery County. She married her first cousin, Abraham Miller^Δ on November 3, 1833, in Elkhart County, Indiana, where her mother had moved by 1833. They had at least five children. Children Martin, Elizabeth, and Emanuel were declared as "idiotic."^{[Cen 1870, 1880]}

1HBG21.	Martin Miller	(1835-1836)	(> 1880)	(>45)
1HBG22.	Esther Miller	(1836-1837)	(> 1900)	(>63)
1HBG23.	Elizabeth Miller	(13) Sep 1838	8 Jan 1899	(60)
1HBG24.	Noah MillerΔ	30 May 1841	14 Mar 1911	(69)
1HBG25.	Emanuel Miller	(24) Mar 1846	15 May 1882	(36)
--	George William Calvin Gerard	27 Jul 1857	3 Nov 1936	(79)
--	Isaac/Newton Gerard	(1858-1859)	(> 1880)	(>21)
--	Mary Gerard	(1860-1861)	(> 1870)	(> 9)

The Millers moved from Elkhart County southwest to Marshall County, Indiana, probably in the late 1840s.^{[Cen 1850]} They likely settled first in Polk Township,^{[Cen 1850]} then shifted slighly south to neighboring West Township,^{[Cen 1860]} and then east to neighboring Center Township.^{[Cen 1870]}

Mary Magdalena Miller died sometime in the 1860s.^{[Cen 1870]} She would have been in her late 40s or early 50s.

Abraham remarried to a the widow Mary Ann (Wyman) Gerard in July 1870. He was 59 years old and she was reported to be 42. She had three children from her first marriage who lived with them in Center Township, Marshall County.^{[Cen 1870]} By 1880 the Millers moved northwest to neighboring Polk Township with Abraham's three adult "idiotic" children, ages 31 to 45, and Mary's son "Newton" (presumably referring to Isaac). An 11-year-old "servant" named Mary Roberts lived with the family and attended school.^{[Cen 1880]}

Youngest son Emanuel died on May 15, 1882, at the age of 36, and was buried at the Blissville Cemetery, across the road from the Blissville Church of the Brethren in Polk Township.^[Grave]

Abraham Miller died on either April 11 or 19, 1896, in Polk Township at the age of 85. He was also buried at Blissville Cemetery.^[Grave]

After Abraham's death, Mary lived with her son George and his family at 1143 South Franklin Street in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. There George worked as a watchman at a wagon factory. All three of Mary's children were recorded as living.^{[Cen 1910]}

Mary (Wyman Gerard) Miller died 16 years after Abraham on May 21, 1913, at the age of 92. She was also buried at the Blissville Cemetery.^[Grave]

Daniel MILLER (1815)

11HBG3. Daniel Miller was born in 1815 in Montgomery County, Ohio. Nothing futher was know of him until autosomal DNA testing indicated that he may have been the Daniel Miller who married a woman from Virginia named Susannah by 1839 and had four children:

11HBG31.	George F. Miller	(1839-1840)	--	--
11HBG32.	James J. Miller	(1840)	--	--
11HBG33.	Daniel Y. Miller	Mar 1847	--	--
11HBG34.	Angeline Miller	(1850)	--	--

Daniel and Susannah are first found in the 1850 census of Putnam County, Illinois, with three sons. The elder two were born in Iowa Territory (which later gained statehood in 1846) and by 1846 or 1847 the family moved back to Illinois where Daniel was born.^{[Cen 1840]} Coincidentally, the Jesse and Ruth Kester family, which was connected to the Millers through the marriage of Daniel's younger brother David to Jesse's niece Sarah, was also located in Putnam County (Magnolia Township) in 1850 and recorded in the census 13 pages later.

By 1860, the Millers had resettled near Malden in Berlin Township, Bureau County, Illinois, roughly 30 miles north and across the Illinois River from Magnolia Township.

Upon his mother's death in 1865, Daniel received a fifth share of inheritance (less $100 he had received during his mother's lifetime) from among his five Miller siblings and his deceased half-sister Mary Ann (Fackler) Startzer. (His elder sister Nancy (Miller) Weaver did not receive a share.) This is the last known, confirmed mention of Daniel's relationship to his parents and siblings.

The family was not found in 1870. Reportedly all but son Daniel Y. were killed in explosion of a riverboat on the Mississippi River after the Civil War. Afterward only son Daniel was found in Kansas^{[Cen 1880]}; then Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho; 25 miles south to Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho^{[Cen 1900]}; and lastly in Goldendale, Klickitat County, Washington.^{[Cen 1910]}

David John MILLER⁶ (1817-1892)

11HBG4. David John Miller⁶ was born on December 2, 1817, in Ohio, likely in Montgomery County, and moved to Iowa Territory around 1840, soon after it became a territory in 1838. He marri ed Sarah Ann Kester⁷ by 1840 in Cedar County, Iowa Territory, and then began their family of as many as six children in Solon, Johnson County, Iowa Territory:

11HBG41.	Finetta A. MillerΔ	23 Feb 1841	9 Apr 1908	(67)
11HBG42.	Isaac Dennis Miller7	8 Dec 1843	25 May 1896	(52)
11HBG43.	Margaret Elizabeth MillerΔ	15 Sep 1854	3 Apr 1938	(83)
11HBG44.	John Valentine MillerΔ	24 Sep 1856	13 Apr 1940	(83)
11HBG45.	Mary Jane MillerΔ	4 Jan 1859	3 Jul 1940	(81)
11HBG46.	Sarah Ellen Miller	21 Mar 1861	6 Nov 1932	(71)

David, wife, and two young girls between the ages of 5 and 10 appear to have been enumerated adjacent to David's mother in Johnson County, Iowa, in 1840, however, there is no other record of two daughters born before 1840.^{[Cen 1840]}

The Millers have yet to be found in the 1850 census. By 1860, they had settled in the township to the east of Big Grove at Side Hill, Cedar Township (Township 81 North, Range 5 West), in the northeast corner of Johnson County, Iowa Territory.^{[Cen 1840]} Their real estate value was appraised in 1860 at $1,500, and personal property at $250.^{[Cen 1860]}

Except for eldest daughter Finetta, whose family had already set firm roots in Iowa, the rest of the Miller family joined a wagon train bound for California about 1870. As noted in a family narrative from 1935, the wagon train was attacked by Indians and son John Valentine had a "close call" when an arrow ripped through the crown of his hat.

Upon arrival in California the Miller family first settled in either San Luis Obispo or Santa Barbara County.

David and Sarah relocated to Oregon, possibly as early as 1871. They likely settled in Josephine County by 1879 when youngest daughter Sarah Ellen married in Josephine County, but may have migrated as early as 1871 when their middle daughter, Maggie, married in Jackson County to the east of Josephine County. The Millers settled in Slate Creek Precinct, probably up Redwood Highway (Highway 199) in the hills southwest of Grants Pass on the edge of what became Siskiyou National Forest, where daughters Mary Jane, Sarah Ellen, and their husbands had also settled by 1880.^{[Cen 1880]}

David John Miller died in 1892 in Table Rock, near Sam's Valley along the Rogue River in Jackson County, Oregon, just north of Medford. He was 74 years old.

Sometime after David's death, Sarah moved to back to San Luis Obispo. There she was hospitalized at the San Luis Obispo County Hospital by 1900.^{[Cen 1900]}

Sarah Ann (Kester) Miller died on June 29, 1902, in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California where some of her grandchildren lived. She was 83 years old. She is buried in San Luis Obispo.

Elizabeth (MILLER) BROCKERT (1820-1901)

11HBG5. Elizabeth Miller^Δ was born September 10, 1820, likely in Montgomery County, Ohio. She married Andrew Brockert, an immigrant from Bavaria, Germany, on March 4, 1843, in Iowa. She and Andrew had as many as nine children:

11HBG51.	Simon H. Brockert	(1843)	--	--
11HBG52.	Nancy Jane Brockert	(1845)	(1939)	(94)
11HBG53.	Maria Elizabeth Brockert	(1847)	--	--
11HBG54.	John Phillip BrockertΔ	20 Oct 1849	2 Aug 1928	(78)
11HBG55.	George Edward Brockert	Apr 1852	Dec 1891	(39)
11HBG56.	Sarah C. Brockert	(1855)	1940	(85)
11HBG57.	Jacob Andrew Brockert	23 Nov 1858	1934	(75)
11HBG58.	Marcus Richard BrockertΔ	23 Nov 1858	Feb 1942	(83)
11HBG59.	Mary M. Brockert	(1862)	(1956)	(94)

The Brockert family settled in Eliot, Louisa County, Iowa, by 1860 and stayed their throughout the rest of their lives.^{[Cen 1860-1880]}

Andrew Brockert died on August 23, 1891 in Oakville, Louisa County, Iowa, three days after his 70th birthday.

Elizabeth (Miller) Brockert died ten years later on August 30, 1901 in Oakville, 11 days shy of her 81st birthday.

George FACKLER (~1822-1839)

11HC4F. George Fackler was born about 1822 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. When he was about 10 or 11 his family moved to Elkhart County, Indiana, and after a couple years continued west to Ely, Linn County, Iowa.

George died in 1839 in Ely, at the age of 17. He is buried at the Fackler's Grove Cemetery across the Johnson County line in Big Grove Township.

Jacob C. FACKLER (Sr.)^Δ (1825-1911)

11HC4G. Jacob C. Fackler (Sr.)^Δ was born on July 18, 1825, along with his twin brother John, in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. He married Minerva Elizabeth Nicholson on August 26, 1851, in Louisa County, Iowa, and had 11 children.

11HC4GA.	Samantha A. Fackler	1852	Apr 1887	(35)
11HC4GB.	Mary Ann FacklerΔ	1 Dec 1854	14 Jul 1932	(77)
11HC4GC.	James A. FacklerΔ	7 Jan 1857	23 Jan 1917	(60)
11HC4GD.	Alice Nancy FacklerΔ	Apr 1859	8 Sep 1932	(73)
11HC4GE.	John Fackler	Oct 1861	1917	(56)
11HC4GF.	Zerelda Angeline Fackler	30 May 1864	5 Apr 1952	(87)
11HC4GG.	Sarah E. Fackler	15 Sep 1866	20 Jul 1940	(73)
11HC4GH.	Jacob C. Fackler (Jr.)	1869	1873	(4)
11HC4GI.	George R. Fackler	12 Oct 1871	25 Sep 1964	(92)
11HC4GJ.	David M. Fackler	Sep 1873	1920	(47)
11HC4GK.	William "Willie" H. Fackler	6 Jul 1874	23 May 1876	(1)

In 1860, Jacob and his family lived with his parents and two younger brothers, John and Samuel. His parents' farm in Big Grove Township was valued at $3,000.^{[Cen 1860]}

The Facklers moved to Sarpy County, Nebraska, southwest of Omaha, perhaps after Jacob's father's death in 1861 or 1862 and before the birth of daughter Zerelda in 1864.^{[Cen 1870]}

During the early 1890s, four children (Mary Ann, James, John, and Zerelda) moved further west to Cheyenne County, in the northwest corner of Kansas.

Jacob C. Fackler died on December 12, 1911, in Springfield, Sarpy County, Nebraska, at the age of 86. He is buried at Springfield Memorial Cemetery with son Willie.^[Grave]

Minerva Elizabeth (Nicholson) Fackler died five years later on December 27, 1916, at the age of 84. She is buried with Jacob and son Willie at Springfield Memorial Cemetery. Son George and his wife Nettie joined them later at Springfield Memorial Cemetery.^[Grave]

John FACKLER (1825-1904)

11HC4H. John Fackler was born on July 18, 1825 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, along with his twin brother, Jacob. Their family moved to Elkhart County, Indiana, when they were around seven years old and then continued west to Iowa where they finally settled in Big Grove Township, Johnson County, by 1840. John lived with his parents, probably until their deaths in 1861 and 1865.^{[Cen 1860]}

Later John moved southwest to Mohave County, Arizona Territory, where he worked as a stock farmer along Francis Creek, southeast of Kingman, by 1880.^{[Cen 1880]}

John did not marry and had no children.

John Fackler died on July 18, 1904, in Hackberry, Mohave County, Arizona. He was 79 years old.

Mary Ann (FACKLER) STARTZER (1826-1850)

11HC4I. Mary Ann Fackler was born in June 1826 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. She married John Rudolph Startzer, a German immigrant from Bayern (Bavaria), on November 14, 1846, in Big Grove Township, Johnson County, Iowa. They had two children:

11HC4I1.	Jacob Startzer	2 Dec 1848	20 Sep 1929	(82)
11HC4I2.	Emma/Emily/Anna Startzer	20 Apr 1849	25 Mar 1904	(54)

Rudolph Startzer immigrated to America in 1839, reportedly from Knittlesheim, Bavaria, Germany, and settled in Big Grove Township, Johnson County, Iowa, by 1841. His property is estimated to be roughly the south half of Section 6, about 3 miles west of Mary Ann's parents in Section 3.

Mary Ann (Fackler) Startzer died on July 24, 1850, at the young age of 24. Five months after her death, Rudolph remarried to Mary Ann's younger sister, Sarah Ann.

Months after Mary Ann's death, Rudolph continued on at Big Grove Township, not far from Mary Ann's parents. With him lived young Jacob and "Anna," his father "Windall" (Wendelin), and likely younger brother Peter. His estate was valued at $800.^{[Cen 1850]} The following January Rudolph remarried to Mary Ann's sister, Sarah Ann.

Michael FACKLER (1828-1899)

11HC4J. Michael Fackler was born about June 1, 1828, in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. He moved to Elkhart County, Indiana, when he was four or five years old, and then continued west to Iowa in 1837, where his family setttled in Big Grove Township, Johnson County, by 1840.

Michael did not marry or have any children.

In 1880, Michael was boarding with the John B. and Mary M. Moore family in Putnam Township.^{[Cen 1880]}

Michael Fackler died on February 1, 1899 at the age of 70. He is buried at Fackler's Grove Cemetery in Big Grove Township.

Samuel FACKLER^Δ (1830-1925)

11HC4K. Samuel Fackler^Δ was born on May 12, 1830, in Big Grove Township, Johnson County, Iowa. He married Malinda Dennis on April 5 or 7, 1860, in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, and had six children. After Malinda's early death, Samuel went on to remarry to Elizabeth (Watters) McGraw, a widow with four children, and have at least two more children:

11HC4K1.	John Wesley Fackler	28 Feb 1863	19 Jul 1948	(85)
11HC4K2.	James Isaac Fackler	23 Nov 1865	23 Feb 1868	(2)
11HC4K3.	Samuel Otis FacklerΔ	30 Sep (1866)	1937	(70)
11HC4K4.	Lydia Ann Fackler	4 Sep (1867)	8 Jan 1938	(70)
11HC4K5.	Laura Malinda Fackler	10 May 1869	12 Oct 1899	(30)
11HC4K6.	Mary Evelyn Fackler	29 Jul 1875	18 May 1937	(61)
--	Anna Myrtle McGraw	(1869-1870)	(23 Sep 1950)	(80 )
--	Mary Jane McGraw	(25 Oct 1871)	(25 Jan 1944)	(72)
--	William H. McGraw	(1873-1874)	--	--
--	Hannah T. McGraw	(1875-1876)	--	--
--	Stephen J. H(arrison) McGraw	Nov 1878	(18 Feb 1964)	(85)
11HC4K7.	Elizabeth "Lizzie" E. Fackler	Nov 1882	1967	(84)
11HC4K8.	David Charles Fackler	Nov 1885	1957	(71)

Before marrying Malinda, Samuel lived for a time with his younger brother Martin in 1856, just after Martin had married. They were enumerated next to their parents in Big Grove Township.^{[Cen 1856]}

The Fackler family settled in Putnam Township, near Banner Valley Post Office (modern-day Ely), southeast of Cedar Rapids. Malinda's young half-brother William Dennis was enumerated with the newlyweds in 1860.^{[Cen 1860]} They lived on in Putnam Township through 1870, when Malinda's father moved from Cedar Township to Putnam Township and lived adjacent to them.^{[Cen 1870]}

Malinda (Dennis) Fackler died March 9, 1880. Some report she had been living in Berkley, Boone County, northwest of Des Moines in central Iowa before she died. She was less than a month from her 40th birthday. Malinda is buried at Fackler's Grove Cemetery in Big Grove Township.^[Grave]

Samuel continued on in Putnam Township with his five children, ages 4 through 18.^{[Cen 1880]}

A year later, Samuel remarried to Elizabeth (Watters) McGraw, the widow of Martin McGraw, in Cedar Rapids in 1881. She was also affiliated with the German Baptist Brethren and had five children between the ages of about 3 and 13.^{[Cen 1880B]} Samuel was about 50 years old and she 38. Elizabeth went on to give Samuel at least two more children. The 1900 census noted that Elizabeth had six of seven children surviving at the time. Son Samuel and second cousins Charles F. and Jerome Fackler also lived nearby.^{[Cen 1900]}

In 1910, Samuel and Elizabeth were living with son David and his new bride Anna in Putnam Township.^{[Cen 1910]}

Elizabeth (Watters McGraw) Fackler reportedly died on August 3, 1919, in Iowa and was buried at the Dunkard Cemetery, near the Dry Creek church, Midway, Linn County, Iowa, reportedly the first German Baptist Brethren meeting house in Iowa, where her parents had been buried. Elizabeth was 77 years old.^[Grave]

Samuel continued to live with son David after Elizabeth's death.^{[Cen 1920]} Later he lived with daugter Lizzie Lentz and her family in North Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa, .^{[Cen 1925]}

Samuel Fackler died on February 20, 1925, at the age of 94 years, in North Liberty. He was a lifelong member of the German Baptist Brethren^{[Cen 1925]} and is also buried at the Dunkard Cemetery.^[Grave]

Sarah Ann (FACKLER) STARTZER^Δ (1833-1917)

11HC4L. Sarah Ann Fackler^Δ was born on May 9, 1833, in Elkhart County, Indiana. She married John Rudolph Startzer (Sr.), her elder sister Mary Ann's widower, on January 13, 1851, six months after Mary Ann's death. Sarah and John reportedly had 19 more children together!:

11HC4I1.	Jacob Startzer	2 Dec 1848	20 Sep 1929	(82)
11HC4I2.	Emma/Emily/Anna Startzer	20 Apr 1849	25 Mar 1904	(54)
11HC4LA.	George Startzer	(1850-1851)	--	--
11HC4LB.	Samuel Startzer	Jan 1853	--	--
11HC4LC.	Mary E. Startzer	22 Jul 1854	22 Jul 1854	(0)
11HC4LD.	Lydia Startzer	Mar 1855	7 Jan 1935	(79)
11HC4LE.	William Startzer	(Apr) 1856	25 Feb 1861	(4)
11HC4LF.	Valentine John StartzerΔ	25 Jul 1857	7 Nov 1941	(84)
11HC4LG.	John Startzer	(Dec 1859)	<1893	(<34)
11HC4LH.	Melinda Startzer	(1860-1861)	--	--
11HC4LI.	Frances Startzer	(1861-1862)	(> 1885)	(> 23)
11HC4LJ.	Peter Startzer	(1863)	(1927)	(64)
11HC4LK.	Louisa Startzer	(Jun) 1863	14 Sep 1863	(3 mos.)
11HC4LL.	Catherine Startzer	(20) Nov 1865	3 Jan 1866	(1 mos.)
11HC4LM.	Infant Startzer	(1866)	24 Dec 1866	(Infancy)
11HC4LN.	Ellen/Ella Mae Startzer	(1867)	(> 1885)	(> 16)
11HC4LO.	Rudolph J. Startzer, Jr.	26 Jun 1869	19 Feb 1945	(75)
11HC4LP.	Sarah Startzer	27 Jan 1871	4 Oct 1943	(72)
11HC4LQ.	Margaret Startzer	(1872-1873)	(> 1885)	(> 12)
11HC4LR.	Julia Startzer	(7) Jan 1874	23 Jan 1874	(16 days)
11HC4LS.	Finetta "Nettie" Startzer	(1874-1875)	(> 1885)	(> 9)

The Startzer property was in the southeast quater of Section 6, about 3 miles west of Sarah Ann's parents in Section 3.^{[Cen 1885]}

The Startzer family had 19 more children over the span of 24 years, 7 of whom died young and were buried along side Rudolph's first wife and Sarah's sister, Mary Ann, at Fackler's Grove Cemetery in northern Johnson County.

In 1856, Rudolph and apparent brother Peter were recorded to have produced 720 bushels of corn from 12 acres; 259 bushels of spring wheat from 11 acres; 200 bushels of oats from 5 acres; 75 bushels of potatoes from a half acres; sold 8 hogs for $58 and one head of cattle for $30; manufactured 100 pounds of butter; and produced $50 of domestic manufactured goods.^{[Cen 1856]}

Rudolph Startzer died on November 4, 1893, in Johnson County, Iowa. He is buried at Fackler's Grove Cemetery along with his first wife and 7 young children.

Sarah Ann (Fackler) Startzer died on January 5, 1917, in Big Grove Township, Johnson County, Iowa, and is also buried at the Fackler's Grove Cemetery with her husband, sister, and 7 young children. She was 83 years old.

At least three of the Startzer children moved west to California.

Martin FACKLER (1834-1909)

11HC4M. Martin Fackler was born on March 16, 1834, in Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana. When he was about 3 years old his family moved to Linn County and finally Johnson County, Iowa. He married Mary Ann Riegel, an immigrant from Bohemia in the Austrian Empire, on February 7, 1856, in Ely, Linn County, Iowa. They had three sons:

11HC4M1.	John J. Fackler	(1857)	(1896-1900)	(~40)
11HC4M2.	Edward Fackler	(1859)	1937	(78)
11HC4M3.	William S. Fackler	Oct 1868	--	--

The Facklers first set up home after their marriage in Big Grove Township, Johnson County, where they were enumerated next to Anton and Anna Riegel, presumably Mary Ann's parents, and Martin's parents. Martin's elder brother Samuel lived with them at the time, as did S. Henry Devantt, a 14-year-old boy who had been first enumerated with the Facklers in 1850. Martin, his father, and brother Samuel netted 254 bushels of spring wheet from 25 acres; 1,878 bushels of corn from 25 acres; 227 bushels of oats from 10 acres; 25 bushels of potatoes from a half acre; had 5 acres in hay and another 5 acres in meadow; and sold 27 hogs valued at $216. They also manfactured 150 pounds of butter.^{[Cen 1856]}

The Fackler family moved west to Ponoma, Los Angeles County, California, in the late 1900s.

Martin Fackler died on July 16, 1909, in Pomona, Los Angeles County, California. He is buried at the Pomona Cemetery and Mausoleum.^[Grave]

After Martin's death, Mary lived with her widowed daughter-in-law, Anna, and her son at 1060 South Garey Avenue in Pomona.^{[Cen 1910-1920]}.

Mary Ann (Riegel) Fackler died on February 8, 1930. She buried with Martin at the Pomona Cemetery and Mausoleum. Son Edward and two grandsons are also buried at the Pomona Cemetery and Mausoleum.^[Grave]