Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: John Prior MILLER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 18 Feb 1809 in Greene Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 28 Sep 1889 d
  • Burial: Cassopolis, Michigan u


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Adam Rev MILLER Birth: Abt 1784 in Pennsylvania Death: 2 Sep 1854 in Edwardsburgh, Michigan
    • Mother:
  • Sarah PRIOR Birth: 1787 in Pennsylvania Death: 20 Dec 1850 in Edwardsburgh, Michigan

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Sarah MILLER Birth: Abt 1829 in Ohio
  2. Adam MILLER Birth: Abt 1832 in Michigan
  3. Martha MILLER Birth: Abt 1834 in Michigan
  4. Lydia MILLER Birth: Abt 1836 in Michigan Death: 1898
  5. Rensallan MILLER Birth: Abt 1842 in Michigan
  6. Susannah MILLER Birth: Abt 1845 in Michigan
  7. Oliver P MILLER Birth: 20 Feb 1847 in Jefferson Twp, Cass Co, Michigan
  8. Leander MILLER Birth: Abt 1849 in Michigan

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Census 1850, Michigan, Cass Co, Jefferson, p14. M432-349. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/004194647 image 114. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: 1850 MI Cass Jefferson 14].
  2. Bartz, Richard E, and Fern Bly Liverance, Bly and Related Families: Book 1: Descendants of William Teft Bly with some ancestry, St Paul, MN: Author, 1999. NYPL APV (Bly) 00-10617. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/833992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bartz BLY p[0-9]*].
  3. Evans, Douglas J, Evans Family, WorldConnect db=douglasjevans, visited 5/26/2004. Author address credje at mchsi dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Evans 12/31/2002].
  4. Goodspeed Brothers, Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph Counties, Indiana, Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, 1893. NYPL IVD (Elkhart Co) 85-1737. Available at http://archive.org/details/pictorialbiograp00inchic. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GoodspeedBros ElkhartCoIN p[0-9]*].
  5. Nelson, Maggie, Miller family, private email 5/15/2002. Author address: olelena at brainerd dot net Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Maggie Nelson 5/15/2002].
  6. Waterman and Watkins, History of Cass County Michigan. Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co, 1882. NYPL IVH+ (Cass Co) (History of Cass Co). Available at http://archive.org/details/historyofcasscou00wate. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Waterman CassCoMI p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Bartz BLY p407, Bartz BLY p419, Douglas Evans 12/31/2002]
age 41 in 1850 [Ref: 1850 MI Cass Jefferson 14],
place:
[Ref: Bartz BLY p407, Bartz BLY p419, Douglas Evans 12/31/2002]
Pennsylvania [Ref: 1850 MI Cass Jefferson 14],
parents:
[Ref: Bartz BLY p407, Douglas Evans 12/31/2002, GoodspeedBros ElkhartCoIN p397, Maggie Nelson 5/15/2002, Waterman CassCoMI p82]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Bartz BLY p407, Bartz BLY p419, Douglas Evans 12/31/2002]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Bartz BLY p407, Bartz BLY p419]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary SHRUM
date:
[Ref: Bartz BLY p407, Bartz BLY p419, Douglas Evans 12/31/2002],
names:
John P MILLER & Mary ___ [Ref: 1850 MI Cass Jefferson 14],
child:
[Ref: 1850 MI Cass Jefferson 14, Maggie Nelson 5/15/2002]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret LAGETT
date:
[Ref: Bartz BLY p407, Bartz BLY p419, Douglas Evans 12/31/2002]
Research Notes:
entered ministry [Ref: GoodspeedBros ElkhartCoIN p397]

1850: located in Jefferson Twp, Cass Co, Michigan. Value of real estate $5000 [Ref: 1850 MI Cass Jefferson 14]

8 children by first wife, and 4 by second [Ref: Bartz BLY p419]



Pedigree of John Prior MILLER
          /-----Abraham MILLER
 /-----Adam Rev MILLER
|         \-----Mary (MILLER)
John Prior MILLER
|         /-----Nathaniel PRIOR
 \-----Sarah PRIOR
          \-----Abigail ROSE



Descendants of John Prior MILLER
1. John Prior MILLER m1. Mary SHRUM m2. Margaret LAGETT
m. Mary SHRUM
m. Margaret LAGETT