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- To do list:
1. check church records for Daniel in Ancaster and Illinois 2. What was going on in 1847 in Glen Ellyn, DuPage, Illinois that both Laura and her 2 yr old daughter died?
3. 1840 Census there was a Daniel Miller in Lee County, Iowa territory. age 20-30, 1 female age 20-30
Timeline for Daniel Miller:
What we know about Daniel Miller: Source
1810- May 10, Daniel Miller born Ancaster, Ontario, Canada tombstone
1834- Mar 12, Daniel Miller & Mary Book witnesses to marriage of Alem research by Ancaster Hist. Soc.
Kelly & Margaret Vansickle, Ancaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
(there was no marriage for Daniel in St. John Angelic church
records of Ancaster)
1844-1852, Daniel owned land in DuPage County, Illinois DuPage Co land records
1846 Mar 4, Daniel married Laura Crumb (bn New York) in DuPage Co. DuPage Co marriage rec.
1847 Daughter, Malica born, DuPage Co, IL findagrave
1849 Jan 17, Daniel & Laura sold 2 parcels of land DuPage Co. DuPage Co land rec.
1849 Jan 20, daughter Elmira born to Daniel & Laura in DuPage Illinois Elmira death rec.
1849 Feb 5, Daughter, Malica dies and is buried Forest Hill Cemetery tombstone, findagrave
1849 Laura Crumb Miller died in DuPage Co, IL, findagrave, Forest Hill, Cem, Glen Ellyn
1849 Mar 24, Daniel only sold land parcel in DuPage Co. DuPage Co land rec.
1850 Census list only Daniel, age 39, farmer bn Canada, Milton tnshp 1850 Census,DuPageCo,Il
1851 Traveled to Oregon or California?
1852 Jun 25, Daniel&Mary sold land in DuPage Co,from Wash Co,OR DuPage Co land rec.
1856 Jan 24, daughter, Matilda J., b in Oregon to Daniel &Mary 1860 Census, Napa Co, CA
and tombstone
1860 Jun 19, Census, Napa Co. Daniel, age 50, carpenter, bn Canada 1860 Census, NapaCo,CA
Mary J, wife, age 55, bn Ireland
Elmira, daughter, age 11, bn Ill.
Matilda J., daughter, age 5, bn Oregon
1864 Living in Napa as his daughter Matilda was in Liberty School Liberty School Exhibition
program presentation.
1870 Jul 14, Daniel age 60 farmer bn Canada living in Martinez 1870 Census CC Co, CA
Mary age 42 keeping house bn Canada
Matilda age 14 at home bn Oregon
1879 Feb 28, Daniel died, buried Brentwood, Contra Costa, CA tombstone
1880 4 Jan, daughter,Matilda, born to Matilda J &Isaac Huey Martinez Gazette news
article & tombstone
1880 Jan 24, Matilda J. Huey died, Contra Costa Co., CA tombstone
1880 Mary J Miller widow, wife’s mother living with Erasmus Grigsby 1800 U S Census
1900 Mary J. Miller,head,widow,age76,b Ireland 1900 Census CC Co. CA
Tilley Huey,granddaughter, single, age 20 bn CA
1901-Feb 12, Mary J. Miller died tombstone
Daniel Miller and Laura Crumb were married 4 March 1846 in DuPage County, Illinois. They were married nearly 3 years before their first child, Elmira, was born in 17 January 1849. Laura died shortly after the birth of their child. Laura had signed with Daniel to sell property in DuPage County just 3 days before giving birth.
Daniel Miller was born 10 May 1810 in Ancaster, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. Nothing is known about his family. He shows up in DuPage County, Illinois in land records as early as May 1843. He is there in the 1850 Census but without Laura or Elmira. In 1852 he and Mary sell land in DuPage County through an attorney as he is in Washington County, Oregon. It is not known when he and Mary married, but they had a daughter, Matilda, who was born in Oregon in 1856. Matilda died giving birth to her first child the same year Daniel, her father, died. Mary was born in Ireland and came to America in 1851. The family story is that Daniel came to California in 1852 in a covered wagon. (Did he go to California and then return to Oregon?) Daniel and Mary are in Yount, Napa County, California in the 1860 census. By 1870 they were in Contra Costa County, where both Daniel and Mary Miller died. They are both buried in the Union cemetery in Brentwood, Contra Costa County, California. Daniel was 69 years old.
Laura Crumb was born about 1824 in New York. She was the 4th of 11th children born to William and Anna Lewis Crumb. William died in 1947 in DuPage County, Illinois. Anna then married Willard Dingman in 1947 and they moved to New York. Both the Crumb and Lewis ancestors were from Washington County, Rhode Island. It is interesting to note that Laura's sister Harriet, who married James Stanton, lived in Oakland, California very close to where Laura's daughter, Elmira, lived during that same time period. Did they know each other? Laura Died in February 1847 in DuPage County, Illinois, shortly after the birth of her only child. She was 25 years old. Where she is buried is not known. There is no known picture of her.
birth and death info from Tombstone Brentwood, Contra Costa, California, Union Cemetary
http://www.paper-trail.org (there is a Daniel mentioned. Is it our Daniel? did he go to Oregon and come back to Illinois?)
1848People named (matching Soundex) Daniel Miller between 1847 and 1856. (1 results)
Family Name First Name Year Age Gender Origin Individual Type Party
Miller Daniel 1848 M Emigrant
Document mentioning Daniel Miller in 1848
Title Author Type Document Code
1848 Across the Plains Lee Other 48LEE01
The family story is that Daniel came to California in 1852 in a covered wagon. ( Did he go to California and then return, as his daughter, Matilda was born in Oregon in 1856?)
I have been to the cemetary where he is buried along with his 2nd wife, Mary, their daughter, Matilda, and her husband and their daughter. His first daughter, Elmira and her husband, Erasmus Grigsby, are also buried there in Brentwood, California.
Possible?
1840 United States Federal Census
Name: Samuel Meller or Daniel Miller]
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Township 68, Lee, Iowa Territory
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 2
1860 United States Federal Census Daniel Miller
Name: Daniel Miller
Age in 1860: 50
Birth Year: abt 1810
BirthPlace: Canada
Home in 1860: Yount, Napa, California
Gender: Male
Post Office: Sebastopol
Household Members:Name Age
Daniel Miller 50 Carpenter value of property $1200
Mary J Miller 35 (I read 33) born Ireland
Elmira Miller 11 born Illinois
Matilda J Miller 5 born Oregon
1870 United States Federal Census Daniel Miller
Name: Daniel Miller
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1810
Age in 1870: 60
BirthPlace: Canada
Home in 1870: Township 3, Contra Costa, California
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Martinez
Household: Daniel age 60 Canada
Mary 42 Canada
Matilda 14 Oregon
* (found 5/21/05 IL land record Daniel Miller Residence of Purchaser unknown,date of purchase-5/31/1843, 80 acres sec 10 T 39N R 10E Meridian 3 Aliquot or lot E2NW Dupage County, 1.25/acre $100 total price, type of land sale-FD, vol 686, page 56)
MILLER DANIEL purchaserNumber=0050248>SESW 03 39N 10E 3 08/01/1844 DUPAGE
MILLER DANIEL E2NW 10 39N 10E 3 05/31/1843 DUPAGE
MILLER DANIEL purchaserNumber=0050250>NWSE 10 39N 10E 3 03/28/1844 DUPAGE
MILLER DANIEL purchaserNumber=0050251>SESW 02 39N 10E 3 08/01/1844 DUPAGE
MILLER DANIEL purchaserNumber=0050252>NESW 10 39N 10E 3 03/28/1844 DUPAGE
Land in DuPage County, Illinois
Daniel Miller Grantee
Doc#1378 deed bk 3 pg 411 - 28 Oct 1844 80 acres +bldgs. $400 W1/2 NE1/4 sect 10 T39N R10E
3rd Prime Meridian
#4315 deed bk 10 pg 189 - 1 May 1845 (recorded Vol 25 p295 Gen Land office) certificate
#12398 public land sale 80 acres E1/2 SW1/4 sect 10 T39N R10E
#4316 deed bk 10 pg 190 - 1 Jun 1845 (patent recorded vol 30 pg 300 Gen Land office) cert #
15095 pub land sale - 80 acres NE1/4 SW1/4 + NW1/4 SE1/4
sect 10 T39N R10E
#4317 deed bk 10 pg 190 - 1 Sep 1845 (recorded Vol 32 pg 408 Gen Land office cert #16242
pub land sale- 40 acres SE1/4 SW1/4 sect 3 T39N R10E
#3504 deed bk 8 pg 407 - 7 May 1847 - 4.88 acres +bldgs. $11.67 part of W1/2 SE1/4 sect 3
T39N R10E
#3516 deed bk 8 pg 409 - 27 Sep 1848 - 67 acres + bldgs. $200, N1/2 of subdivision 8&9 sect
16 T40 R9E
Daniel Miller - Grantor
Doc #3841 deed bk 9 pg 262 - 17 Jan 1849 - 40 acres. $240, part of W1/2 NE1/4 sec 10 + part
of W1/2 SE1/4 sect 3 T39N R10E from Daniel and Laura
#3842 deed bk 9 pg 273 - 17 Jan 1849 - 80 acres. $150, W1/2 SE1/4 sect 10 T39N R10E
from Daniel and Laura
#5008 deed bk 11 pg 254 - 24 Mar 1849 - 37.25 acres $130, SE 1/4 SW1/4 sec 3 T39N
R10E from Daniel only
#5908 deed bk 12 pg 438 - 28 Jan 1852 - 67 acres, $800, N1/2 of subdivision 8&9 sect 16
T40 R9E from Daniel and Mary from Washington County, Oregon Terr.
#6350 deed bk 13 pg 200 - 3 July 1852 - about 257 acres, $1104, Daniel Miller by his
attorney in fact
*There seems to be about 230 more acres sold than acquired. Perhaps there was another parcel acquired previous to 1844.or perhaps there was another Daniel. was it a homestead?
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1810 - 1879 (68 years)
