Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hancock Co.

W. B. MILLER, Hancock County, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., March 15,
1815, to Joseph and Mary (Booker) Miller.  The father was born in Virginia
in 1793, his father, John Miller, being a native of Germany.  The father
was a millwright by trade, and was a soldier in the war of 1812.  In 1822
he came to Kentucky, and settled in Shelby County, where he followed
stilling for three years.  He next moved to Daviess County, where he joined
the Methodist Church and subsequently became a preacher.  In 1860 he
removed to Ohio County, where he died in 1874.  The mother was also born in
Rockbridge County, Va., in 1792, and died in this State in the spring of
1855.  Our subject is the second of a family of nine children, of whom two
are now living: Joseph S., in Ohio County, and William B.  The latter began
life for himself at the age of twenty-five, at farming in Daviess County.
In the winter of 1854 he moved to Hancock County and settled at Lewisport,
where he remained three years.  He then bought a mill near Hawesville,
which he ran two years and then sold out.  He then erected a mill in
Hancock County, opposite Tell City on the Ohio, but remained there only one
year.  In 1879 he settled on his present farm, where he now owns about 108
acres.  Mr. Miller was married January 11, 1841, to Miss Rosa E., daughter
of Capt. Ben and Nancy (Graham) Duncan, natives of Nelson County.  Mrs.
Miller was born in Daviess County, Ky., November 5, 1824.  To her have been
born three children, of whom two are living: Nannie, wife of James Freeman,
and Cynthia, wife of John A. Freeman.  Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Subject served as assessor in
Daviess County three years; in 1861 and 1862 he served as sheriff of
Hancock County, and from 1876 to 1880 he served as assessor.

Miller Booker Duncan Graham Freeman
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Rockbridge-VA Germany Shelby Daviess Ohio Nelson


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