Nancy J Miller

Abt 1824 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Nancy J Miller
  Born	Abt 1824	Virginia, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I10771	WVPioneers
  Last Modified	12 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	Stephen Kitts Miller,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Sarah [Miller],   d. Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Miller Family Monroe Miller's grandfather, Kitts Miller, came to America from Germany after he was grown. He served in the Colonial Army, in the War for Independence. He married and located in Meigs County, Ohio. He remained there a few years, then crossed the river and bought land below the mouth of Mill Creek. He raised a large family of children, of whose names I find: "Becky" Miller, married Charlie Shinn, who was an uncle of George Shinn, who lived on Grass Lick. Charles Shinn lived on Cow Run. Nancy Miller, married Washington Rader, who was a son of Michael Rader, Jr. Wash Rader sold goods for Nehemiah Smith in the first store in Reedy, in 1841. Lewis Miller, married Lydia Sayre, whose parents lived in Meigs County, Ohio. He later married Elizabeth (Betsy) Shinn, whose parents were native of Meigs County, Ohio, but who had settled on Mill Creek. Lewis Miller was for several years a member of the County court of Jackson County. His children, by his first wife: Rosalie, Perry, Hampton, and Monroe. By his second wife: Warren, Leander, Columbus, and Sarah E. Monroe Miller, the oldest son of Lewis Miller, was in 1905, a widower of seventy, and talked of "going west to grow up with the country." He laughingly told me there was no chance for him to get married here, as he was related to nearly all the women and girls on both sides of the river for many miles, they being of Sayre descent. Warren Miller was for a time in Athens University. He studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1871. He was Mayor of Ripley in 1884, was Prosecuting Attorney from 1880 until 1884. He also served in the House of Delegates, State Senate and Congress. The first settler at Buffalo was Joe Miller, who married Caroline Parsons. Afterward, he lived on the Davis farm, on the Right Fork of Reedy, above Greenbrier, being the first settler there. This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Mill Creek"
  Family ID	F4008	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George Washington 'Wash' Rader,   b. 9 Jul 1814, MA ,   d. 18 Sep 1868  (Age 54 years)
  Married	7 Apr 1840	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   [2]
  Notes	1840 Jackson, VA 1m 20-30 1f 10-15 1850 Jackson, VA # 443-448 Rader George W 36 M Farmer Va Rader Nancy 26 F Va Rader Elizabeth H 3 F Va Strally Barthemia A 19 F Va 1860 Jackson, VA # 460-428 George W, 46 Nancy J, 38 Elizabeth E, 13 Abraham G A, 7 [Alonzo] 1870 Mill Creek Dist,, Jackson, WV # 419 Nancy Jane 44 Abraham G A, 16 1880 Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia Page 429A l/w Alonza RADER Nancy J. RADER Mother F W W 57 OH PA PA John House, "Pioneers of Jackson Co": George W. Rader was born (from record on tombstone) July 9th, 1814, and died September 18th, 1868, aged fifty four years. He married Nancy Miller, a daughter of Kitts Miller, and Aunt of Judge Warren Miller. George W., commonly called Wash Rader, lived on the Charley Shinn farm, on Station Camp, where his daughter Ellen, who married Shinn, now lives. It is said that he built a cabin near where the pike crosses Joe's Run, when he first married. In letters to Abe Rader, who was in the west, written just after the war, he mentions a son, Alonzo, and two daughters, Ellen, who married Charley Shinn, and Eliza. These letters throw light on the conditions in Jackson County, just after the war. Wash and Abe Rader were Union men, the remainder of the family all being Confederates. Under date of May 21st, 1865, he writes – "We have had a very early spring, and we have had some very high waters. On the 9th day of May, the creek was over my floor, as it was in 1852. It was twenty three inches over my house floor (probably an old house nearer the water). I had a nasty time. It only took off three hundred rails for me. I am nearly done planting. I have about two acres to put in a the Gabbert place yet, and then I'm done. I have some corn that is large enough to work. My wheat and grass all looks well. Stock is high. I sold my big oxen the first week in May, for One hundred fifty dollars. They would have weighed a thousand pounds a piece. That was seven and a half cents a pound. The thieves is still a stealing horses, grain, chickens, meat, etc. I have Bill Harper's Charley, and two weeks ago Thursday night, some rascal stole him and took him off. I don't know where, and the next morning about seven o'clock, he came back. Two weeks ago they stole two horse from Tom Wilkerson, and I have not heard of them since." Under date of July 3rd, 1868, he writes – "The weather here is extremely hot for the last two weeks and very dry for two weeks today. I have been cutting wheat for two days, and I have just one hundred dozen cut. I will have fifty more, I think. Our county is almost taxed to death, my tax last year was Seventy three Dollars, and this year we are building a new bridge at Ravenswood, and we will have to pay Nine thousand dollars for the bridge. In the last two years, we have had to pay over Sixteen thousand dollars for bridges in the county. My taxes for township purposes is Thirty eight dollars this fall. I will be strapped, I know. There is a great deal of party strife here at present. Our Rebels feel very big since Johnson's trial is over." On the 4th of October, 1868, Charley Shinn wrote Abram Rader to announce the death of Wash, on the 18th of the previous month, after "laying sick" "about five weeks", he first "took" the "information of the brain", followed by "billious feaver" and "newmonia". Dr. "Bectal" "on Grass Lick" "tended on" him three weeks. He also states that the fall was so wet that "corn has pretty near all rotted". The water had been fifteen inches higher than ever before known.
  Children	1. Elizabeth Ellen A Rader,   b. 13 Nov 1846, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 11 Mar 1928, Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, USA  (Age 81 years)   2. Abraham G Alonzo Rader,   b. 9 Aug 1852, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 23 Jun 1940, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 87 years)   3. Mary Sarah A C Rader,   b. 5 Apr 1856, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 7 Oct 1859, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 3 years)   4. Ellen Rader,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S1205] Census. [S17] Marriage Records, Jackson Co, WV.