Miller Buirley, residing on Section 4, Wayne Township, was born in Shelby
County, Ohio, the date of his birth being July 25, 1833. His father, William
Buirley, was a native of the State of Pennsylvania, where he was reared and
married to Miss Elizabeth Kizer. They subsequently moved to Ohio, both
parents dying in Shelby County, at an advanced age. They reared a family of
eight children to maturity, of whom five sons are yet living. Two daughters
and one son are deceased.
Miller Buirley has followed farming and
carpentering all his life, and is now the owner of his farm on Section 4,
Wayne Township, which contains eighty acres of choice land. He has been a
resident of Jay County since the spring of 1861, and since the year 1866 has
resided on his present farm. He was married in Piqua, Miami County, Ohio,
July 1, 1855, to Miss Mary Conner, a daughter of James Conner, the father of
Irish descent and the mother of German ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Conner removed
from Pennsylvania to Miami County, Ohio when Mrs. Buirley was about sixteen
years old. Mr. Conner died in Shelby County, Ohio, in 1879 after which Mrs.
Conner lived with her daughter, Mrs. Buirley, until her death.
Mrs.
Buirley was the eldest of nine children, and of these only four are living –
Mrs. Buirley, Mrs. Rebecca Nash of Portland; George and Clara, the youngest
who is also living at Portland.
Of the nine children born to Mr. and
Mrs. Buirley eight are living – James W., Francis M., Annie J., Amanda E.,
Samuel M., Mary H., Sarah E., and Clara E. Alfred A., the youngest son, died
in his eighteenth year.
Biographical & Historical Record
of Jay County
Lewis Publishing Company, 1887
Transcribed by Jim Cox
Buried in Green Park Cemetery