Miller - Charles
Source: H. W. Beckwith History, Montgomery Co Indiana. Chicago: HH Hill.
Charles Miller (deceased) was born in New Jersey, in 1794, and moved with his parents to Ohio. There he was married to Nancy Moore, who was born in Ohio in 1800. About 1824 Mr. and Mrs. Miller emigrated to Montgomery county, Indiana, conveying their few traps and one child, Eliza, now Mrs. Henry Stonebraker, of Wayne township, in a wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen.
Mr. Miller entered 160 acres of land in Wayne township, built the fashionable log cabin, cleared his farm, improved it, and became a thrifty farmer. He died in 1853, leaving wife and eight children: Eliza, Elias, Ellis, Philander, Jasper, Irvin, Martha, and Mary, five of whom are living. His wife died in 1878. Both were members of the Regular Baptist church.
He was a life-long democrat. Jasper served three years in the civil war, returned, and died in 1866. Irvin Miller, son of Charles and Nancy Miller, was born in Wayne township, May 30, 1827. September 4, 1851, he was married to Sarah A. Gunendyke, daughter of Peter and Hannah Gunendyke, who came to Montgomery county about 1827 and settled about six miles north of Crawfordsville.
Her father was a native of New Jersey, and died in 1854. Her mother was born in North Carolina and is now living at the age of seventy-seven years. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Miller settled in Union township, but in 1853 they bought eighty acres in Coal Creek township, where they live. They have added till they own 200 acres, besides having given some to one child. They are well supplied in their old days. They have six children: Dorothy E., Martha H., James G., Susan A. (a teacher), Minerva, Mary, Caroline (deceased). Mr. Miller has been a life-long democrat.