Genealogie Wylie » Rev. John Miller DD [MNBr-sPs zDNA 56 HambrgBu]MHP5 (1825-1878)

Persönliche Daten Rev. John Miller DD [MNBr-sPs zDNA 56 HambrgBu]MHP5 

• Er wurde geboren am 24. Juli 1825 in York District, South Carolina ac.Quellen 1, 2, 3
• Er ist verstorben am 3. Juni 1878 in Wilcox County, Alabama ql, er war 52 Jahre alt.Quelle 3
• Er wurde beerdigt in Hamburg Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama.Quelle 4
• Ein Kind von Joseph Miller und Nancy Barnett Neely
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 13. August 2023.

Familie von Rev. John Miller DD [MNBr-sPs zDNA 56 HambrgBu]MHP5

Er ist verheiratet mit Sarah Pressly.

Sie haben geheiratet am 24. August 1846 in Cedar Springs, Abbeville District, South Carolina, er war 21 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Elizabeth Lorraine Miller  1847-1862
2. Joseph Neely Miller  1849-1910 
3. Samuel Patterson Miller  1851-1851
4. Nancy Barnette Miller  1852-1938 
5. Janie Patterson Miller  1855-1903 
6. John Hearst Miller  1858-1919 
7. Sarah Louise Miller  1858-1948
8. James Pressly Miller  1861-1906
9. Benjamin Meek Miller  1864-1944 
10. David Pressly Miller  1869-1899 

Notizen bei Rev. John Miller DD [MNBr-sPs zDNA 56 HambrgBu]MHP5

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1860
MILLER, JNO (1860 U.S. Census) Minister A.R.P.ALABAMA , WILCOX, REHOBOTH P OAge: 36, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: SCSeries: M653 Roll: 26 Page: 1060

John Miller Dr. Minister Birth month given in some family sources as "June"Birth day given in some family sources as "4th"Entered Erskine College 1840, graduated 1843Moved to Oak Hill in 1846 to serve as pastor of the Lebanon ARP church; served31 years in that positionPresident of Wilcox Female College (1867-72)Elected president of Erskine College in 1857 but declinedChaplain of Wilcox True Blues in Civil WarAll children who lived to that age attended collegeHusband or wife had sister named Mrs. TorbitNote of unknown origin: 10 children, 2 died in infancyLicensed to preach in 1845 in VirginiaIn 1846 he came on horseback from Virginia to Lebanon Church, Wilcoxcounty, Alabama. In 1853 & 54 he conducted a large school at SocietyHill in Wilcox county along with his pastoral duties. In 1858 her was electedpresident of Erskine College, but declined. In 1866 he purchased WilcoxFemale Institute at Camden, Ala., and for 5 years made it one of the firstinstitutions for women in southern Alabama. At the end of 5 years, hereturned to his people at Oak Hill as pastor.Marriage date give as 24 or 25Marriage place given as Abbeville, SC or Wilcox Co., ALWas licensed to preach in Virginia in 1845During the war he visited his young men at Port Hudson, Miss., and preached forthem for several months. The "Wilcox True Blues" presented him with a handsomeBible. (This Bible is probably in the possession of Mrs. Minnie Leah MillerPerdue.)Dr. Miller in his youthful ministry wrote his sermons in blank verse. He wasnot only of a philosophic but poetic frame of mind. He was not only a scholarbut an orator.

John Miller 1 1 1 SmartMatches
Birth: 4 Jul 1825 in York Co., S. C. 1 1
Death: 3 Jun 1878 in Wilcox C., Al. Hamburg Cem. 1 1
Sex: M
Father: Joseph Miller II b. 10 May 1781 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Mother: Nancy Barnett Neely b. 26 Aug 1795 in Ireland

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Spouses & Children

Sara Pressly (Wife) b. 24 Dec 1827
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Marriage: 25 AUG 1846 in Wilcox C., Al.
Children:
Elizabeth Lorraine Miller b. 30 Jun 1847
Joseph Neely Miller b. 14 Jul 1849 in Oak Hill, Al.
Samuel Pressly Miller b. 27 Aug 1851
Nancy Barnette Miller b. 27 Oct 1852 in Oak Hill, Al.
Jane Patterson Miller b. 20 Nov 1855 in Oak Hill, Al.
John Hearst Miller b. 11 Aug 1858 in Oak Hill, Al.
Sarah L. Miller b. 11 Aug 1858 in Oak Hill, Al.
James Pressly Miller b. 25 May 1861 in Oak Hill, Al.
Benjamin Meek Miller b. 13 Mar 1864 in Oak Hill, Al.
David Pressly Miller b. 27 Mar 1869 in Oak Hill, Al.

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JOHN MILLER, D.D.
1856 - 1867, 1871 - 1878
Dr. John Miller was born July 24, 1825, in York District, South Carolina; entered Erskine College in 1840; graduated in 1843; and was licensed in 1845; preached in Virginia in 1845, and came on horseback from Virginia to Lebanon Church, Wilcox County, Alabama, in 1846, and was installed pastor the same year. In 1846 he was married to Miss Sarah Pressly, youngest daughter of Dr. Samuel Pressly and Elizabeth Hearst Pressly. In 1853 and 1854 he conducted a large school at Society Hill, in Wilcox County, along with his pastoral duties, and in 1855 was elected President of Wilcox Female Institute, at Camden, Alabama. In 1858 he was elected President of Erskine College, but declined to accept. He was at different times moderator of the Synod, twice delegate of his church to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, and was member of a committee of his own church to revise the metrical version of the Psalms. He died June 3, 1878, pastor of his first and only charge, at Oak Hill, Wilcox County, Alabama, over which he was the under shepherd for about thirty years. He left a widow, since deceased, and five sons and three daughters, viz.: Hon. J. N. Miller and Hon. B. M. Miller, Camden, Alabama; Hon. J. N. Miller, Birmingham, Alabama; Mr. James P. Miller, Rosebud, Alabama; Mrs. Barnette M. Pogue, Gadsen, Alabama; Mrs. A. G. Brice, Chester, South Carolina; Mrs. Janie M. Dale, Oak Hill, Alabama, and David P. Miller, Camden, Alabama, since deceased. The degrees of A. M. and D. D. were conferred on Dr. Miller by his Alma Mater. In 1866 he purchased the Wilcox Female Institute, at Camden, Alabama, and for five years made it one of the first institutions of learning in South Alabama. At the end of five years, he returned to his people at Oak Hill, as pastor. During the war he visited his young men in the army at Port Hudson, in Mississippi, an preached for them for several months, and the "Wilcox True Blues" presented him with a handsome family Bible, which he greatly prized. He was a loyal and liberal friend of his Alma Mater. He had by virtue of subscription to the ante-bellum endowment of Erskine College a perpetual scholarship in the College and until that endowment failed by the disasters of the war, he kept a worthy young man there as the beneficiary of this privilege. The forgoing constitutes the outline of the work and achievements of Dr. Miller. When he graduated, Dr. Ebenezer Pressly, then President of Erskine, said, as Dr. Miller, a boy of eighteen years, took his seat after delivering his graduation speech, "I expect to hear from that boy." Dr. Miller in his youthful ministry wrote his sermons in blank verse - he was not only of a philosophic but poetic turn of mind. Hon. W. A. Lee, of Abbeville, South Carolina, a classmate of Dr. Miller, in writing a sketch of the class of 1843, said of the subject of this sketch, "He was a poet and a genius, with a mind singularly acute and philosophical, whose early promise has been amply verified in the achievements of after life. He came to Due West in the first flush of his early youth and bright with the glow of health and intellect and remained a model student to the close of his Academic career. After years of labor in pulpit, school room and college, as has been herein before recorded, he spent the closing years of his life as Pastor of his first and only charge, among the scenes of his early labors and in sweet accord with the youthful and dearest associations of his life." Dr. Miller was not only a scholar, but an orator. It is recorded of him that while he taught in school and college, he never ceased to preach each Sabbath, and that he was a man of great and recognized pulpit powers. His wonderful research and earnestness, his resist less force and amazing profoundness, attracted up to his death great admiration. "He loved the work of Pastor. He was devoted to the cause of the risen Savior." His people not only respected but loved him. He labored for them a lifetime, and the church he founded at Oak Hill stands as a memorial. It has stood like a rock in the cause of right now near a half century, true and loyal, not to Christ and his cause alone, but loyal to the distinct features of our denomination. Dr. Miller was too broad a man to be sectarian, but he was too true to be disloyal. It takes a special form and quality of loyal and moral courage to stand almost alone on the frontier for the peculiar tenets of our faith. With our ministers in the West, there is no touch of elbows as in the East.In the wall of the church at Oak Hill, to the right of the pulpit he occupied so long, is a marble tablet with the inscription: "To Rev. John Miller, D.D. Our Pastor for 30 years. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance." Rev. A. J. Witherspoon, D.D., himself then a citizen of Alabama, in giving an account of Dr. Miller's visit in 1875 to the Presbyterian General Assembly at New Orleans, as delegate from our church, said "that Dr. Miller was one of the foremost men in the pulpit of Alabama." When the history of old Lebanon on Prairie Creek, and Bethel at Oak Hill, and female education in Wilcox County, and Associate Reformed Presbyterianism in Alabama, and the great overshadowing cause of the gospel truth in Alabama, are fully recorded, the name of Dr. John Miller, D.D., will be interwoven with them all. -from the Centennial History of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1905

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Miller Family in Alabama History and Biography
MILLER, JOHN, Presbyterian minister and college president, was born June 24, 1825, in York District, S. C., and died June 3, 1878, at Oak Hill, Wilcox County; son of Joseph and Nancy Barnette (Neely) Miller, grandson of Samuel and Elizabeth (Neely) Miller of Scotch stock who emigrated from North Ireland to South Carolina near the beginning of the American Revolution and settled in the vicinity of the historic town of Yorkville. He was a graduate of Erskine college, Due West, S. C., and in 1857 was elected president of that institution, an honor which he declined, however not to his prejudice, for later his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of D. D. He removed to Alabama in 1846 to assume the pastorate of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Oak Hill, a position which he held for thirty-one years; president Wilcox female college, 1867-72; chaplain Wilcox True Blues, during the War of Secession. Married: Sarah, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth (Hearst) Pressly, who, prior to 1836, resided at Cedar Springs, Abbeville County, S. C., whence they removed to Wilcox County; granddaughter of David and Jane (Patterson) Pressly, and of Joseph and Jane Hearst of Abbeville. The Presslys are of English origin. Children: 1. Joseph Neely; 2. Mrs. Barnette Payne, Gadsden; 3. 4. (twins) John Hearst
and Sallle, married Brice, Chester,
S. C.; 5. Janie Dale; 6. James Pressly, merchant, Camden; 7. Benjamin Meek (q. v.); 8. Davis Pressly, merchant, Camden. Last residence: Oak Hill, Wilcox County.
MILLER, JOHN, lawyer, was born October 1, 1882, at Camden, Wilcox County; son of Joseph Neely and Minnie Frances (Bonner) Miller, both of Oak Hill in the same county, the former who was U. S. district attorney from 1893-97, and was a member of the constitutional convention in 1901; grandson of Rev. John and Sarah (Pressly) Miller and of Dr. Joseph Hearst Bonner, all of Oak Hill. His grandparents were from South Carolina originally, being Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Mr. Miller received his early education at Camden; was graduated at Erskine college, South Carolina, A. B., 1903, and studied law at the University of Alabama, 1909-10. He passed the State bar examination in March, 1911; became county solicitor of Wilcox County, January, 1917; and was elected to the State senate from the twenty-second district in 1919. He is a Democrat, a Presbyterian, a Mason, a Knight of Pythias. Married: November 28, 1911, at Fur- man, to Clyde Purifoy, daughter of W. Scott and Mary (Loeb) Purifoy, of that place. Children: 1. Minnie Loeb. Residence: Camden.
MILLER, JOHN HEARST, lawyer and judge, was born August 1, 1858, at Oak Hill, Wilcox County, and died January 2, 1919, in Birmingham; son of Rev. Dr. John and Sarah (Pressly) Miller (q. v.). Judge Miller was educated in the public schools of his native county and at Erskine college, S. C., where he graduated in 1880, second in his class, being awarded medals for debating, essay writing and proficiency in mathematics, serving as teacher of the latter subject at that college, 1882-88, and in 1895 receiving from it the honorary degree of A. M. He studied law at the University of Virginia and later took a special course at Johns Hopkins university. He returned to Alabama in 1888, and located in Birmingham where he entered upon the practice of the law. He served as city recorder, 1891-92; special judge circuit court of Jefferson County under gubernatorial appointment, 1907; elected November, 1912, judge of the city court of Birmingham for a term of six years, an office abolished by the legislature of 1915; elected one of the judges of the 10th judicial circuit. He was a director in the Traders national bank; member board of directors Homestead trust company and the Southern indemnity company. He was a Democrat and a Presbyterian. Married: June 10, 1896, in Birmingham, Eugenia, daughter of C. W. and Margaret A. Alexander of that city. Mrs. Miller died in March, 1899. Children: 1. Pressly Alexander, died young. Last residence: Birmingham.
MILLER, JOSEPH NEELY, lawyer, member Alabama constitutional convention of 1901, was born July 14, 1849, at Oak Hill, Wilcox County, and died in 1910; son of Rev. Dr. John and Sarah (Pressly) Miller (q. v.). He was educated in his home community and prepared for college, entering the University of Alabama in 1864. Later he attended Erskine college. Due West, S. C., from which he graduated with the degree of A. B., 1869, and was invited by his alma mater to be anniversary orator in 1881 and again in 1892 when he delivered the address at the semi-centennial of the Philoma- thean literary society; received the honorary degree of M. A., and was a trustee Erskine college. He read law under Gen. E. W. Pettus of Selma and Judge S. C. Cochran of Camden, and was admitted to the bar in 1873, beginning the practice in Camden. He was U. S. district attorney for the southern district with headquarters in Mobile, 1893-97. He was a Democrat; and a member of the Alabama constitutional convention 1901. He was a Knight of Pythias and for many years an elder in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church at Camden and in 1913 was a delegate to the Centennial Synod of the church at Winnsboro, S. ('.; delegate to the Pan Presbyterian council held in Liverpool, England, June, 1904. Married: (1) September 6, 1877, to Minnie Lee, daughter of Dr. Joseph H. and Sarah (Young) Bonner, of Wilcox County; (2) July 28, 1898, to Lena, daughter of Dr. Joseph and Elizabeth (Acre) Tucker of Mobile; (3) November 6, 1901, to Nellie Tucker, slater of his second wife. Children, by first wife: 1. Joseph B., lawyer, deceased; 2. twin of Joseph B., d. in infancy; 3. Sarah P., m. John M. Bonner, Camden; 4. John, m. Clyde Purlfoy, Camden; 5. Minnie M., m. Dr. J. Heustis Jones, Camden; 6. Annie B.; 7. Joseph N., d. young; 8. Elizabeth H., d. young; by third wife: 9. Lina T.; 10. Elizabeth H.; 11. James Pressly. Last residence: Camden.
MILLER, LAWRENCE

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