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Descendants of George Miller

3. SARAH JANE² MILLER (GEORGE¹)² was born October 06, 1782². She married GEORGE EUBANKS². He was born Abt. 1780 in Cheraw District, SC², and died 1838 in Chesterfield Co. SC².

Notes for SARAH JANE MILLER:
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1850 Chesterfield Census lists a Sarah Eubanks, age 70, F, with Elizabeth Eubanks, age 45, F living with her, p. 155, 870

More About SARAH JANE MILLER:
Fact 2: October 14, 1999²

Notes for GEORGE EUBANKS:
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These Eubanks records were taken from internet. Many of these appear to have moved on to Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Also from copy of pp. 181-182 from "The Heritage of Union Co., NC" sent to me by John Smith, North Carolina. My interest for Clara Funderburk is the Eubanks who stayed on in Chesterfield Co., SC

Quoted from The Heritage of Union Co. NC" submitted by Cris Russell Eubanks, p. 181
"The original spelling of Eubanks in Germany was Ewbanks, which is where the first Eubanks came to America from. Some settled in Virginia, and later in Chesterfield Co. SC; it was from here that they came into Union Co. NC. They served in the Revlutionary War, War Between the States, WWI and WWII.

"My sixth great grandfather who came from Germany was Joseph Eubanks, born in the 1700's; his wife's name is not known. His son Jon, was born in Germany, and died in Chesterfield Co, SC. He is buried in the Eubanks cemetery in Chesterfield Co. (this cemetery has been destroyed.

"George Eubanks, son of John, was born in Chesterfield Co., SC and married Sarah Jane Miller, daughter of George Miller and Elizabeth Singleton (she was Penn. Dutch) George and Sarah lived in Jefferson, SC..."

More About GEORGE EUBANKS:
Fact 2: October 14, 1999²

Children of SARAH MILLER and GEORGE EUBANKS are:

	i.		THOMAS³ EUBANKS², b. Abt. 1795².
	ii.		SARAH EUBANKS², b. Abt. 1796².
	iii.		JOHN EUBANKS², b. Abt. 1798².
	iv.		ALLEN EUBANKS^3,⁴, b. Abt. 1799⁴; m. MARGARET (ROLLINGS) ROLLINS⁴, June 26, 1829 ^5,⁶; b. Abt. 1809⁶.

Notes for ALLEN EUBANKS:
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1850 Chesterfield Census Lists as follows:
Allen Eubanks, 51,m 500, SC
Margaret Eubanks, 41, F, SC
Thomas C., 17, M, SC
Martha A., 15, F, SC
William C., 13,M, SC
Mary E., 10,F, SC
John, 8, M
Sarah, 6,F, SC
Margaret L., 3,F SC

The following is quoted from "The Heritage of Union Co, NC", p. 181, submitted by Cris Russell Eubanks

"It was there (Jefferson, SC) that their son, Allen (my 3rd great grandfather) was born in 1799 and married on June 26 1829 to Margaret Rollings, born 1809. Allen and Margaret Eubanks had nine children
1. Thomas Canady (1832-1908) m. Nancy Arant on Feb. 10 1859
2. Martha A. b. 1835
3. William C. born 1837
4. Mary b. 1840
5. John C. (my second great grandfather
6. Sarah b. 1844
7. Margaret E. b. 1847
8. George C. b. 1850
9. Susan J. b. 1856

end of quote"

	v.	ELIZABETH EUBANKS⁶, b. Abt. 1801⁶.
	vi.	WILLIAM EUBANKS⁶, b. Abt. 1803⁶.
14.	vii.	MICHAEL SYLVESTOR EUBANKS, b. Abt. 1805, Chesterfield Co. SC.
	viii.	LAVINA EUBANKS⁶, b. Abt. 1807⁶.
	ix.	ALICE (ALLIE) EUBANKS⁶, b. Abt. 1809⁶; d. 1889⁶; m. CHARLES (BIRD) BYRD⁶; b. 1804⁶; d. 1876⁶.
15.	x.	NOAH EUBANKS, b. Abt. 1810.
16.	xi.	ADAM EUBANKS, b. Abt. 1818.

4. MICHAEL² MILLER (GEORGE¹)⁶ was born January 20, 1784 in Lancaster, SC⁶, and died December 21, 1874 in Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC⁶. He married (1) FRANCES WELSH⁶ January 18, 1810 in Chesterfield Co., SC⁶. She was born May 05, 1782 in Lancaster Co. SC⁶, and died May 12, 1852 in Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC⁶. He married (2) EMILY W. BILLEAUX⁶ March 05, 1856 in SC, possibly Chesterfield Co.⁶. She was born February 08, 1839 in SC⁶, and died February 18, 1915 in SC⁶.

Notes for MICHAEL MILLER:
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He first settled area that is now Jefferson, once part of Craven County, then Cheraws District , now Chesterfield Co., SC.

Served as a Lt. under Capt. James Douglas in his Co. of SC Militia of Infantry under Lt. Co. Adam McWillie during the War of 1812

(undocumented)

By 1819 he had est. his store on land that one day would become Jefferson. Area was then known as Miller's Mill, later Millersville, becoming Jefferson around 1870. His house is the oldest structure in town built circa 1810, now the Fanny Lowery Memorial Library

Between 1810 and 1819 there was a Miller's Store at what is now Jefferson. He lived in a doublelog cabin located on the hill back of the Miller cemetery.

Later he had constructed a house now (1950) occupied by Fanny Lowery Memorial Library

From John Smith Notes:

"Michael Miller was a Lt. in Capt. James Douglas's Co., SC Militia, War of 1812, a co. of infantry under Lt. Co. Adam McWilie. He served frequently as an officer in court martials, etc. See Pension File PF WC-22696. He was a farmer. He also started a store in the early 1800's in Jefferson, SC. His tombstone is in the cemetary at Jefferson, SC. It reads "Michael Miller, born December 28, 1784, died December 21, 1874. In His day was quite a Prominent Citizen. He served his country as a Lieut. in the War of 1812, and at the time of his death had 50 great grand-children, and two great great grandchildren. Aged 89 yrs. 11 mths. & 23 days. Michael was about six feet tall, had dark hair and dark eyes and had a dark complexion. These notes were compiled by Mrs. Ben C. Hough from records of Mr. John Welsh, Monroe, NC"

From Eleonore Crespo notes on the internet "From Buchal to Younger and Inbetween:

Biography:
Michael was a farmer, but he also opened a store in Jefferson, SC called" Miller's Store" , from 1810-1819. He served in the War of 1812 Military as Lt. in Captain James Douglas' Company, South Carolina Militia, an Infantry company under Lt. Col. Adam McWilie. Michael Frequently served as an Officer of the Court in Court Martials.

More About MICHAEL MILLER:
Fact 1: Served as Lt. in War of 1812⁶
Fact 2: Operated Miller's Store, Jefferson, 1810-1819⁶

Notes for FRANCES WELSH:
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Two birth dates seen
from the Gardner book b. 1788 d. 1841 m. 1810 Michael Miller b. 1784 d. 1874
Had 5 May 1782 as birth date - don't know where it came from

More About FRANCES WELSH:
Burial: Miller Cemetery⁶

More About EMILY W. BILLEAUX:
Fact 2: October 14, 1999⁶

Children of MICHAEL MILLER and FRANCES WELSH are:

MARY "MOSELY" F.³ MILLER⁶, b. October 17, 1810, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC⁶; d. December 20, 1885⁶; m. ALEXANDER MCMILLAN⁶, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC⁶; b. May 14, 1800⁶; d. March 19, 1869⁶.

More About MARY "MOSELY" F. MILLER:
Fact 1: Alt. spelling: Mosley⁶
Fact 2: Alt. death date: 12/29/1885⁶

More About ALEXANDER MCMILLAN:
Fact 2: October 11, 1999⁶

17.	ii.		STEVEN DECATUR (STEPHEN) MILLER, b. January 14, 1813, Chesterfield Co., SC; d. June 23, 1852, Chesterfield Co., SC, on his plantation near Lynches River.
	iii.		JACKSON MILLER⁶, b. September 11, 1814, Lancaster or Chesterfield Co. SC⁶; d. May 18, 1886, Palo Pinto Co. TX⁶; m. FRANCES FUNDERBURK⁶; b. April 23, 1820, Lancaster Co., SC⁶; d. August 27, 1893, Palo Pinto Co, TX⁶.

Notes for JACKSON MILLER:
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Jackson Miller moved to Texas and took his entire family except one son, Dr. Robert Miller, father of in 1950, Ed Miller

More About JACKSON MILLER:
Fact 1: Oran Cemetery, Palo Pinto Co., TX⁶

More About FRANCES FUNDERBURK:
Fact 1: Oran Cemetery, Palo Pinto Co. TX⁶

iv.

JAMES MADISON MILLER⁶, b. April 07, 1816, Chesterfield Co., SC⁶; d. February 02, 1865, Chesterfield Co., SC ^7,⁸; m. FRANCES SHEHORN BLAKENEY⁸, 1835, Chesterfield Co., SC⁸; b. July 07, 1819, Chesterfield Co., SC⁸; d. July 26, 1881, Chesterfield Co., SC⁸.

Notes for JAMES MADISON MILLER:
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He was captured and killed by the Yankees just a few weeks before Lee surrendered. The James M. Miller Chapter of UDC was named after him. Was a guard at the Florence Stockade (compared to Andersonville as Yankee Prison Camp in Civil War)

James Madison Miller served in the army of CSA. He was going home on leave from the Florence stockade, where he was a guard, when he was captured by the Union Army. He was then executed by a firing squad in retaliation for the killing of a Northerner. He had no part in the death of this person. A monument was erected to him by the daughters of the American Rev. (may be daughters of the Confederacy) See info in Chesterfield District Genealogy Pub. Vol. 1 No. 2 Summer 1998)

From William J. Raley book, "The Fabric of a Family"
The following account of the execution of James M. Miller by Yankee soldiers was published in the Lancaster, SC and other papers. It was written by the late W. D. Trantham of Camden, SC.

"I have read with interest the articles of Mr. Forde and others in the recent issues of the Sunday News in reference to the shooting of James Miller by Sherman's army in March, 1865 in retaliation for the killing of a Federal soldier by supposed bushwhackers. Mr. Miller lived near Jefferson in Chesterfield Co. SC and I knew his brother, the late Major John S. Miller and many of his neighbors and friends, among them some of those who participated with him in the casting of lots. Some years ago a newspaper was placed in my hands by a son-in-law of James Miller in which was an account of the shooting of Mr. Miller, purporting to have been written by an officer connected with the affair and present at his death. I have forgotten the name of the officer, and of the newspaper, which I think was published in Lancaster or Chesterfield, SC, and reporduced from the article from a Western paper. This paper was in my portfolio, which was mislaid, lost or stolen about two years ago.

"It is staeted that the dead body of a Federal soldier belonging to a Western cavalry regiment, I think from Michigan, was found where he had evidently been murdered by bushwackers, that the Federal Commander ahd determined to resort to retaliation to prevent such killings, and General Francis P. Blair, who commanded the 17th Army Corp, issued orders for the casting of lots for one man to be put to death for the cavalryman aforesaid.

"My informant did not know all who participated in the casting of lots, but among them were Mr. R. B. Clanton now living in Chesterfield Co., Mr. Robert Griffith and others who knew James Miller. I have talked with and corresponded with others about the cruel tragedy, and from them and the account by the Federal Officer before mentioned my information was obtained. One or more of the participants said it came as a great surprise to all who were made to cast lots, and one of them declared that he never before or after found it such a task to stretch forth his right hand to draw a little piece of paper out of a hand. James Miller drew the fatal lot. He was a man between forty-five and fifty years of age and had been captured a few days before some distance west of Cheraw while on his way home on furlough from Florence, SC where he had been engaged in guarding prisoners. He protested that while he sympathized with his State in her struggle, and had given of his means for the support of the cause, he was over age for active service, and had not fired a gun in the war. But he was told that the order was imperative. He begged to be allowed to communicate with his wife and children, but this privilege was denied him. He then asked to confer with such of his friends and neighbors as were captive with himself. To those he gave directions for his wife, asking that she be told that he was not coming home, and advising her about the farm and about the childen, just as if he was going off on a journey to be absent for a long time.

"He then made some requests of thsoe who were about to shoot shim. He asked, in the first plasce, that he be not bound, either hand or foot, saying he was not going to run, that he was prepared and not afraid to die. He then asked that he be not blindfolded, saying he wished to look into the eyes of those who were to shoot him. And lastly, he begged that he not be shot in the face, declaring that God has given him his face and that in all his life he had never done anything of which he was ashamed. He was marched off a short distance, the firing squad drawn up, the guns discharged as one and James Miller lay dead, as much a hero as if he had died at the cannon's mouth at Gettysburg, in the charge up Snodgrass Hill, at Chickamaugua, or at the bloody angle at Spottsylvania."

More About JAMES MADISON MILLER:
Burial: Methodist Church Cem. Five Forks at Pageland SC⁸
Fact 1: Five Forks Cemetery, near Pageland⁸

Notes for FRANCES SHEHORN BLAKENEY:
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Her last name was also Shehorn. Her mother (Leah) married twice. Her mother's first husband's last name was Shehorn. He mother's second husband was William Blakeney, Jr. Frances had a sister, Charolette (Charlotte?), who married Travis Evans.

More About FRANCES SHEHORN BLAKENEY:
Burial: Methodist Church Cem. Five Forks at Pageland SC⁸

18.	v.		JOHN SIMPSON MILLER, MAJOR, b. March 21, 1818, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC; d. March 23, 1881, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC or was it 1888.
	vi.		HARRIET MILLER⁸, b. May 01, 1820, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC⁸; d. January 13, 1893, Lancaster Co., SC⁸; m. JOHN RUSHING WELSH⁸, June 01, 1836, By Jacob Carnes, Wit. Al Funderburk & Silas Ingram⁸; b. November 22, 1813, Chesterfield Co., SC⁸; d. August 12, 1892, Possibly Lancaster Co., SC⁸.

Notes for HARRIET MILLER:
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Harriet Miller and John Rushing Welsh were first cousins.

More About HARRIET MILLER:
Burial: Old 1st Presby. Church Cem., Lancaster SC⁸

Notes for JOHN RUSHING WELSH:
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He was a 2nd Lt. in Co. H of the Lancaster Invincibles (Civil War)
He and Harriet were first cousins.

More About JOHN RUSHING WELSH:
Burial: Old 1st Presby Church Cem, Lancaster, SC⁸
Fact 2: October 14, 1999⁸

Children of MICHAEL MILLER and EMILY BILLEAUX are:

vii.

MARY ELIZABETH³ MILLER⁸, b. May 04, 1857, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co. SC⁸; d. April 15, 1938, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co. SC⁸; m. JOHN LINDSAY LOWRY⁸, January 04, 1872, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co. SC⁸; b. November 17, 1849, Hornsboro, Chesterfield Co. SC⁸; d. April 12, 1914, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co. SC⁸.

Notes for JOHN LINDSAY LOWRY:
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From "The Fabric of a Family" by William Lindsay Raley, Jr.
John Lindsay Lowry played a significant role in the development of his home community, Jefferson SC. He was a signer of the petition to incorporate the town.

He was a large land-owner and a farmer and was prominent in the business, education and religious life of the community. He was the Vice President of the Jefferson Bank, Chairman of the Jefferson School Board of Trustees and for many years an Elder of the Presbyterian Church of Jefferson.

Census records for 1850, 1880 and 1900 indicate he was born in SC.

More About JOHN LINDSAY LOWRY:
Fact 2: October 14, 1999⁸

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LAURA FRANCES MILLER⁸, b. August 29, 1867, Lancaster Co., SC⁸; m. SANDY BAKER⁸; b. Abt. 1860, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC⁸.

Notes for SANDY BAKER:
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He was from near Jefferson

More About SANDY BAKER:
Fact 2: October 14, 1999⁸

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