Elizabeth Miller (1799-1874)

LINE: A1 Johann Michael (Mueller) Miller | B6 Johann Michael Miller, Jr. | C7 Philip Jacob Miller | D3 Daniel Miller | E1 Stephen Miller

F2 Elizabeth Miller, born August 14, 1799 Campbell County, Kentucky, died March 23, 1874 Jackson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, married August 24, 1816, John Rumbarger, born July 2, 1796 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, died February 13, 1883 Jackson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, son of George Rumbarger and Anna Margaretha Stoever.

John Rumbarger, farmer, P. O. Farmersville, born in Lancaster County, Penna., July 2, 1794; is a son of George and Margaret Rumbarger, natives of Pennsylvania, but who emigrated to Ohio and located the farm where John now lives, in the summer of 1806, being among the first pioneers of this township. Here he labored and toiled clearing up his farm, enduring the many hardships of that early day, and lived and died on the same farm upon which he first located. He was the father of two children, one only now living-John-who still resides upon the old home place; is now nearly eighty-five years of age and has made a continued residence here of seventy-five years, a period of time almost unprecedented.

Mr. Rumbarger was married August 24, 1816, to Elizabeth Miller, who was born in Kentucky, August 14, 1799; issue, eleven children; nine now survive-Michael, Katharine, Mary, Eli, Elizabeth, Anna, Christiana, Hiram and Henry. His wife departed this life March 23, 1874. Mr. Rumbarger has seen the rough side of pioneer life, living for several years a close neighbor of the Indians and wild beasts, the settlers being few and far between; when they had to go ten miles to get their grist ground, no schools and no churches. But he has lived to see great changes take place under the progressive hand of civilization. The mighty forests have disappeared and waving fields of grain appear in their stead; fine churches and schools dot the land, and comfort and plenty prevail. These changes are so great that could those venerable ancestors be here and behold these beautiful homes and fields of this county, they could scarcely believe that it was the same country where they once lived and endured so many trials and hardships; and our present and future generations cannot give too much praise and honor to their memory for the first hard strokes they gave to ward bringing this country to its present flourishing condition, Henry now has charge of the old home place, with whom his aged father now lives; he was born here July 10, 1839; was married October 31, 1871, to Mrs. Eliza J. Leias. [sic, Leis] Mrs. Leias, by her first husband, had two children, Louisa Anna and Sarah Catharine.

--History of Montgomery County, Ohio, W. H. Beers Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1882, pp 348-349.   

During the time frame they wed, many marriages for some reason were not recorded in Montgomery County where the event most likely occurred. While the record is silent, it is likely that John and Elizabeth were members of the Lutheran Church. John's great grandfather Johann Casper Stöver II [1707-1779] was one of the first Lutheran ministers in the American Colonies, settling north of Lebanon, Pennsylvania shortly after emigrating from Germany in 1728, where he formed the Hill Lutheran congregation. His charge was large, extending southward into Virginia.

John and Elizabeth are buried Germantown Cemetery in Germantown, Ohio.

Children of Elizabeth Miller and John Rumbarger:

The Miller Family Tree is a collection of information gathered over the past 50+ years by:
Karleen & Tom Miller of Morrisville Pennsylvania, and Gale Honeyman of the Brethren Heritage Center.
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Tree Outline of Miller Generations