Miller - Jacob
Source: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Montgomery County, Indiana (DAR)
Jacob Miller was born 1755, Louden County, Virginia. He died 25 Jul 1839 and buried in the Masonic Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana(Stone). He married Margaret Dick in 1782 and died in 1863. Children: John died in 1844; George died 1846; Isaac; Mary; Teny; Eliza.
Source Page 253, Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, 1938.
Battles: Seige of York
Applied for Pension from Jefferson County Kentucky 10-14-1819
Died 7-25-1839 Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Buried Old Masonic Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana
Wife: Margaret Dick
Known Children:
John
George (died age 55 on July 14, 1846
Mary (b abt 1789)
Isaac
Tenny
Eliza
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Source: Crawfordsville Star, April 12, 1877 p 1
The lintel of Jas. Lee’s new business house on Washington Street is a yellow poplar plate from a house built by Isaac Miller on the lot adjoining the Shermen (sic) House in 1822. The wood was perfect, and as may be supposed thoroughly seasoned. Mr. Miller was a Revolutionary soldier and the grandfather of Jacob Miller of this city, himself an aged man.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 23 Feb 1900 p 9
In an article about Eleazor Wilhite, a local tailor and one of the first to come to Crawfordsville and lacked a bit being 90 years old at his death, Eleazor tells about knowing Jacob Miller : “With the Millers came old Jacob Miller, a Revolutionary War soldier. He was then an old man and lived to be over 90, dying along in 1838. I heard him tell many stories of the fight against the king and he was a prime old talker, too. He had served the whole seven years and was with Washington at Valley Forge and at the surrender of the great Cornwallis. Of this last he liked to talk and grew really eloquent as he described the glorious days. But of Valley Forge and of the suffering when the Delaware was crossed he would talk but little, merely saying they had suffered many things. He was a native of Virginia and a man of many talents besides being a pure patriot. There were two other men here in the very early days, Daddy Mason and General Jack Warren, both of whom claimed to be Revolutionary soldiers, but Mr. Miller did not believe them. After he came here he built a stout cabin, larger than most of the others and it still stands. It is on Market Street, just east of the Sherman house. It was weather boarded finally and old Mrs. Dobson still lives in it. When Mr. Miller died he was buried in the Old Town cemetery, but was later buried in the Masonic Cemetery, I think. Old Mrs. Shevlin who yet lives here is his granddaughter.” – thanks so much to “S” for all her great obit work on this site