|--------
|
|---------
| |
| |--------
|
|------John MILLER ( - )
| |
| | |--------
| | |
| |---------
| |
| |--------
|
Reuben MILLER (1815, Kentucky - 1893, Iowa)
|
| |--------
| |
| |---------Reuben BALLARD (1748, VA or NC - 1820, KY)
| | |
| | |--------
| |
|------Beda BALLARD (1784 - )
|
| |--------Abraham BALLARD (1705, VA - 1754, NC)
| |
|---------Absilla A. ``Assala'' BALLARD ( - )
|
|--------Elizabeth SUMNER (1715 - )
The following is from an Iowa County, Iowa history book on Pilot Township:
The first settler in Pilot was Reuben Miller. He came from Illinois in the year 1845 and settled on Section 8, English township. He was a native of Kentucky. He laid off the town of Millersburg in the year 1852, June 28. In the year 1854 he built a water mill on North English River, put in burs and ground corn. The mill was just over the line in English township, but he had built a house and lived in what is now Pilot. He subsequently removed to the western part of the State, where he still lives. Reuben Miller was fond of the hunt, he killed deer by the score, he chased bears and trapped large game and took many otters and minks. He was a whole souled, good-natured honest man. One of his sons, Martin, accidentally shot himself through the head while preparing his gun for a hunt, on Christmas morning in the year 1862. Hezekiah, another son, died about fifteen years ago.
It also states that the first marriage in Pilot Township of Iowa Co., Iowa was that of Daniel Page to Beda Elizabeth Miller. Beda was Reuben's daughter.
There is a photo of Reuben and Nancy Ellen Miller. It was printed in the ``Millersburg United Methodist Church 1890--1990'' cemetery records and history. I have a very bad copy that is not even worth scanning or reproducing.
See also: http://www.familysearch.com/Search/af/ancestral\_file\_frame.asp?recid=32699384
Sources for this individual: @S335@ @S1549@ @S1285@ @S1233@ @S1422@ @S1553@
