Indiana American History and Genealogy Project-Bartholomew County





BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY BIOGRAPHIES
"The Oldest Person In The County"


Mrs. Mary Magdalen Miller is supposed to be the oldest person in this county. She was born November 10, 1774, in Stokes county, North Carolina, and was the daughter of Jacob Crause. Her father served through the revolutionary war, and was wounded several times, and fought his way through the British lines with stones to keep from being taken as a prisoner. Mrs. Miller was married to Jacob Miller in 1800, and is the mother of ten children, five sons and five daughters. Three of the boys are ministers of the gospel, and two exhorters. All are still living but one of the daughters. Mrs. Miller has sixty-eight grand-children, one hundred and forty-one great grand-children, and six great great grand-children; and can truly say, "Arise and go to my daughter, for my daughter's daughter has a daughter. " Mrs. Miller and her husband moved to Indiana in the fall of 1837, and bought a farm four miles east of Hope, where they lived a few years, sold out and lived with their children up to 1865, since which time they have lived with Joseph Steenbarger, who married one of their grand daughters. Mr. Miller died in 1866, after a married life of sixty-six years, during which time he was an active minister of the gospel. Mrs. Miller retains good health and a strong memory of the scenes of her youth, and has been a professor of religion ever since she was sixteen years old, and now only awaits the pleasure of Him who has protected her through the long life she has passed.
(Columbus Republican, 1873 or 1874?)



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