CHILDREN

1886 Jan 26: Marriage license (#5674) on file at Grundy Co., IL.  Charles Miller is listed as a farmer living in Braceville, IL, who had been born in Seneca Falls, NY, a son of Jacob E. Miller and M.E. Egner.  Jane E. Prickett is listed as living in Coal City, IL, and as having been born in Erienna Township (Grundy), IL, a daughter of Charles Prickett and Adeline A. Holderman. Rev. John S. Keir conducted the ceremony, and the witnesses were Henry Curtis Stockwell and Andrew Frank (or Frances). (Henry Stockwell was also born in New York.  Stockwell later married Rosa Volmer on 10 Oct. 1889. Charles Miller was NOT a witness at Stockwell's wedding).   In the 1880 Federal Census Henry Stockwell is enumerated as living in dwelling 278 in Braceville, Grundy County, Illinois (ED 12, Page 36, Line 1) while the Charles Prickett family is enumerated in dwelling 281 on that same page.

1886 Nov. 26:  Frank Miller might have been born in Will County, IL, instead of Grundy County, IL.  His obituary indicates that his birthplace was Joliet (Will), IL.  I am suspicious that he might have been born in Braidwood (Will), IL, which is just across the Will County line from Coal City (Grundy), IL.

1888 Sep. 20:  George William "Bill" Miller was born in Coal City, IL.  His delayed birth certificate (filed 17 Jan. 1942) is on file with the Grundy Co., IL, county recorder #5006.  It indicates that his father, Charles E. Miller, was living in Coal City, was doing "general work", and had been born in Seneca Falls (presumably NY).  Jane Ellen Prickett is listed as a housewife who had been born in Morris, IL.  Rheuann Bergeron, Bill's aunt, attested to the accuracy of the birth certificate; she was living at 613 W. Olive St., Ft. Collins (Larimer), CO.

1889:  The Miller family moved to Yuma Co., Colorado.  Possibly homesteaded?

1890 May 26:  Deforest Hassinger "Harry" Miller was born in Vernon (Yuma), CO.

1892 Apr. 11:  Mae Blanche Miller was born in Vernon (Yuma), CO.  The name Blanche was in honor of Charles' sister, Blanche Miller.  [Velma Gibson Miller, 1041 Walnut St., Apt. 11-E, Windsor, CO  80550]

1897 Apr. 12:  Marion Miller was born in Vernon (Yuma), CO.

1898 Dec. 17:  Charles Miller received a land patent for his homestead in the SE ¼ of section 21, Township 1S, Range 45W of the 6^th prime meridian.  Charles neighbors were Joel Prickett to the west, Charles Prickett to the north, and Burt Prickett to the east.  While the plat book in the Yuma County Clerk’s office indicates that the patentee was “Charles E. Miller,” the actual patent in the Bureau of Land Management office web site lists the name as “Charles C. Miller.”

1898:  The Charles Miller family moved to Brush (Morgan), CO.

1899 Dec. 27:  Roscoe Miller was born in ? Vernon (Yuma), CO.

1900 Jun 14:  Federal Census, Precinct 16, Brush (Morgan), CO, ED 186, S 1, L 28, by Halbert Haslee.

1901:  The Miller family moved to Greeley (Weld), CO.

1903:  Bill started working with the Great Western Sugar Company during the beet processing campaign.

1910 Apr. 17:  Frank Miller married Florence F. Pitcock in Greeley (Weld), CO.  (License #4396, Book 4, P. 389, Weld Co., CO). Florence died before 23 July 1913.   (Continued on their family group sheet.)

1910 May 13:  Federal Census:  The Charles E. Miller family is enumerated at 1529 3rd Avenue, Greeley (Weld), CO, ED 272, S 29A, by Daniel J. Marah.  Charles had been doing "odd jobs" but had been unemployed for 28 weeks in the preceding year.  George W.  also did odd jobs and had been unemployed for 16 weeks, and Deforest H. had been doing odd jobs and was unemployed for 26 weeks.  Frank E. Miller and his new wife, Florence, are enumerated next door at 1527 3rd Ave.  Frank was a lineman for the telephone company.

1911:  The Charles Miller family moved to Kersey (Weld), CO.

1911 Sep. 6:  George William Miller began working continuously for the Great Western Sugar Company in Eaton (Weld), CO.

1912 Aug. 22:  George William ("Bill") Miller married Mary Irene Collins in Greeley (Weld), CO.  (License #4933, Book 4, P. 568, Weld Co., CO) (Continued on their family group sheet.)

1913 May 7:  Deforest Hassinger ("Harry") Miller married Dorthea Hjertman in Brighton (Adams), CO.  (Marriage record is on file with Adams Co. Clerk and Recorder)  (Continued on their family group sheet.)

1913 Jul. 23:  Frank Miller married Sylvia Flynn in Kansas City, KS.   (Continued on their family group sheet.)

1917 Mar. 3:  Marion Willard Miller married Marian Ester Neal in Greeley (Weld), CO.  (License #6202, Book 5, P. 403, Weld Co., CO).  (Continued on their family group sheet.)

1920 Jan. 12:  1920 Federal Census, Windsor, Weld, Colorado (SD 2, ED 231, Sheet 151A, enumerated by William Earl Nelson):

Name	Age	Birthplace	Father’s Birthplace	Mother’s Birthplace	Occupation
Charles E. Miller	67	New York	New York	New York	Laborer in factory
Jane E. Miller	65	Illinois	Ohio	Ohio
Roscoe Miller	21	Colorado	New York	Illinois	Laborer in factory

 

1920 Jan. 20:  The 1920 Federal Census enumerated the George William Miller family on Cheyenne Avenue, Eaton (Weld), CO (SD 2, ED 23, Sheet 6A, Line 18).  The family consisted of George W. (age 31, assistant superintendent at the sugar factory), Mary I. (age 27), and Floyd W. (age 3 9/12).  The family was renting their house.  The census taker was Agnes B. Schoonover.

1920 Jan. 23:  The 1920 Federal Census enumerated the Frank E. Miller family on Maple Street, Eaton (Weld), CO (SD 2, ED 238, Sheet 12B, Line 74).  The family consisted of Frank E. (age 34, sugar boiler at the sugar factory) and Sylvia U. (age 27).  The entry for both Bill and Frank indicate that their father, Charles E. Miller, was born in Pennsylvania. 

1921 Mar. 26:  Mae Blanche Miller married James H. Mundy in Ft. Collins (Larimer), CO.   (Continued on their family group sheet.)

 

1923 Nov. 28:  Roscoe Miller married Velma Florence Gibson in Greeley (Weld), CO.

Photo of Charles and Jane Ellen (Prickett) Miller, their children and their grandchildren taken in 1926.

1930:  About this time Frank and Bill Miller installed running water in the bathroom in Charles and Jane Ellen's house in Kersey.  Jane Ellen had a rain barrel at the corner of the house.  She kept the water to wash her snow-white hair and used bluing in the rinse water because she said it made her hair soft.  [Frances Miller Botts]

1930 Apr. 30:  Federal Census taken April 30, 1930 by Margaret B. Reid, Kersey Town, Weld County, Colorado, Pct. 10, Ed 62-19, SD 4, Sheet 3A, Page 164, 5^th Street, Family 63 – Miller, Charles E., head, owns house, valued at $1,500, no radio, not a farm, male, white, age 80, married at age 37, not attended school, reads and writes, born in New York, father born in New York, mother born in New York; Miller, Ellen J., wife, female, white, age 77, married at age 34, not attended school, reads and writes, born in Ohio, father born in Illinois, mother born in Illinois.  (Record found by Mary A. Denney).

1932 Jul. 6:  Charles E. Miller died in Kersey (Weld), CO, from a cerebral hemorrhage at 6:30 p.m.  His death certificate, #7076, is on file with the Colorado State Department of Health.  It indicates Charles' occupation as "marble cutter" and his mother's given name as "Bell".  Charles and Jane Ellen were living in a house located at the corner of Fifth St. and Campbell in Kersey.  Marion Miller later purchased this house. [Bonnie Miller Reinick, 22571 Weld County Rd. 55, Kersey, CO  80644]

1932 Jul. 7-8:  Article in The Greeley Tribune, p.  12:

CHARLES E. MILLER, 81-YEAR-OLD RESIDENT OF KERSEY, IS DEAD. 

Kersey, July 6--Charles E. Miller, since 1911 a resident of Kersey, died here at 6:30 Wednesday evening after seven weeks illness following a stroke of paralysis. 

Born June 28, 1851, at Seneca Falls, N.Y., where he lived until he was 18, working as a stonecutter, Mr. Miller in 1885 moved to Coal City, Ill., and in 1889 to Colorado, homesteading near Wray.  He left his homestead in 1898 and lived in Brush until 1901, when the family went to Greeley.  He divided the next ten years between working at the sugar factory and market gardening.  Since 1911 he had resided in Kersey.  He had retired from active work.

Mr. Miller was married Jan. 26, 1886 to Ellen Prickett, who survives him.  He is survived by several children:  George W. and Frank E. Miller of Eaton, Harry D. Miller of Greeley, Roscoe Miller of Limon, Marion Miller and Mrs. James Mundy of Kersey.  Funeral service will be at Sattley Funeral home, Greeley at 2:30 Saturday afternoon.

1939:  Jane Ellen Miller broke her hip and lived with Frank Miller and his family in Eaton.  [Frances Miller Botts]

1939 Dec. 12:  Jane Ellen (Prickett) Miller died in Kersey (Weld), CO, from myocarditis and chronic arteriosclerosis.  Her death certificate, #13025, is on file with the Colorado State Department of Health, and indicates that her birthplace was "Bridgewood, IL" (incorrect), that her father was Charles Prickett (correct) who was born in Indiana (incorrect), that her mother was "Adam Holderman" (incorrect) who was also born in Indiana (incorrect).  She was at Roscoe Miller's house when she died.

1939 Dec. 13:  Article in The Greeley Tribune:

MRS. JANE ELLEN MILLER, 85, OF KERSEY IS DEAD. 

Mrs. Jane Ellen Miller, 85, of Kersey died at her home Tuesday.  Survivors include six children:  F.E. and G.W. Miller of Eaton, D.H. Miller of Greeley, N.W. and Roscoe Miller of Kersey, and Mrs. May  Munday of Identa, Kan., two sisters, Mrs. Ruha Burgun of Fort Morgan and Mrs. Rose Clausen of Vernon, Colo., and two brothers, Bert Prickett and Jake Prickett of Vernon.  Funeral service will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Sattley Funeral Home chapel with interment at Eaton cemetery.

1954 July 10:  Frank Miller died in Washington.  Obituary in a local paper:

FRANK E. MILLER DIES FOLLOWING LONG ILLNESS. 

Frank Ellsworth Miller of 135 Whitman St., died at a local hospital late Saturday night following an extended illness.  He was 67.  Miller was born November 26, 1886, in Joliet, Ill.  He lived at Greeley, Colo., from 1902 to 1947.  Following his retirement as foreman of a large sugar plant at Greeley in 1947 he moved to Burns, Ore., and in 1952 to Milton-Freewater.  In April of this year, he and his wife Sylvia, moved to their home on Whitman in Walla Walla.  His survivors include his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Orville A. Botts of Stateline; two grandchildren, Blanche and Dale Botts, both of Stateline; four brothers in Colorado; and a sister in Kansas.  Funeral services have been scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 13, at the chapel of a Milton-Freewater funeral home.  Interment will be at the Milton IOOF Cemetery.

1960 May 9:  G.W. “Bill” Miller died of a heart attack while inspecting a privacy fence being built at a home located at the corner of Fifth Ave. and Bush St. in Brighton.

1960 May 12:  Article on page 1 of the Brighton Blade:

MILLER FUNERAL HELD HERE TODAY.  Funeral services were held this afternoon at the First Christian Church for G.W. (Bill) Miller of 276 S. 6th Ave., who died Monday evening.  Rev. Val Johnson, pastor of the church officiated at the service, and interment was made at Elmwood Cemetery.  Rice Chapel was in charge of arrangements.  Bill Miller was born at Coal City, Ill., on Sept. 20, 1888, and later moved to Colorado with his parents, settling at Wray.  After some time, the family moved again, this time to Greeley, where they lived from 1905 until 1912.  On August 22, 1912, he married Mary I. Collins, and the couple moved to Eaton where Miller was assistant superintendent of the Great Western Sugar Factory until 1946 when he was transferred to the Brighton GW plant, serving here as assistant superintendent until his retirement in 1953.  He was appointed building inspector for the city of Brighton in 1955, and was still serving in that capacity at the time of his death.  Miller was a member and a trustee of the First Christian Church of Brighton.  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mary I. Miller; a daughter, Mrs. Verna Kiefer of Brighton, and a son, Floyd W. Miller of Eaton.  Also surviving are three brothers, Marion Miller of Kersey, D.H. Miller of Greeley, and Roscoe Miller of Boulder; a sister, Mrs. Mae Mundy of Miltonvale, Kan., and five grandchildren.

1962 Oct. 9:  Marion Miller died in Kersey (Weld), Colorado.  Obituary in the Greeley Tribune:

MARION MILLER DIES SUNDAY.  Marian W. (Pop) Miller, 65, of Kersey, who retired July 1, as custodian of the Kersey School, died of a heart attack at his home Sunday morning.  He was born April 12, 1897, at Vernon and came with his family to Greeley in 1900.  He attended Greeley Schools.  He and Marian Neal were married in 1917 here.  Miller farmed and worked for the railroad before becoming the school custodian in 1934.  He was a member of the Kersey Methodist Church.  Besides his wife, surviving are three children, Charles L. of San Leandro, Calif., Roy W. and Mrs. Richard (Bonnie) Reinick, both of Kersey; a brother Roscoe of Boulder; a sister, Mrs. Mae Mundy of Miltonvale, Kan.; and 11 grandchildren.  Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday from Macy's Drawing Room with interment at Linn Grove Cemetery.

According to Charles Leslie Miller (son of Charles Egner Miller's son, Marion Miller): Charles Egner Miller told some things about the Erie Canal and all the good fruit they had in Pennsylvania.  He did talk about doing stone masonry work, but I have no idea where or when.  In fact they kept a stone Bible, carved from white marble on the table that he had made.  As far as I know they were never involved with any church.  The only information I have about his family is that his father died when he was quite young.  Later his mother remarried.  Grandfather did not get along with the stepfather and left home when he was around thirteen years old and he said he never went back home.  You must understand Grandpa had all us grandkids scared of him; I would have to say that he wasn't a loving grandparent.  We have thought that his family probably came from either Holland or Germany.  He still had the accent and sentence structure of the German language like, "Throw the cow over the fence some hay."  Pronouncing "W" as "V" and so forth.  One other story I heard about Grandpa.  In his younger days he was known to drink a few.  Kersey and Greeley were dry towns.  He would go to Evans, a wet town, with the horse and buggy.  When the saloon closed they would put him in the buggy, tie the reins up and turn the horse loose.  It would come all the way back home to Kersey with Grandpa asleep or "out".  Sometimes they wouldn't look for him until next morning.

 

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