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Christian “Chris” Miller

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Birth	:	9 Mar 1841
Death	:	10 Jan 1934
Burial	:	Riverside Cemetery, Three Oaks, Berrien County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.8446999, -86.6089020
Description	:	Civil War veteran Private, Co. C, 19th Indiana Infantry Pension #28,020, filed January 31, 1863 The following obituary was published in the Port Angeles (WA) Evening News on January 11, 1934: A long adventurous career ended Wednesday when death claimed Chris Miller, 93 year old Civil War veteran, freight train driver in the early days of Colorado and Washington state and Sequim pioneer. Death was due to the infirmities of old age. The late Mr. Miller's history reads like a romance. Born at Ridgeville, IN March 9th, 1841, he enlisted in the Union forces of the Civil War in 1861. He was wounded 5... Read More	Civil War veteran Private, Co. C, 19th Indiana Infantry Pension #28,020, filed January 31, 1863 The following obituary was published in the Port Angeles (WA) Evening News on January 11, 1934: A long adventurous career ended Wednesday when death claimed Chris Miller, 93 year old Civil War veteran, freight train driver in the early days of Colorado and Washington state and Sequim pioneer. Death was due to the infirmities of old age. The late Mr. Miller's history reads like a romance. Born at Ridgeville, IN March 9th, 1841, he enlisted in the Union forces of the Civil War in 1861. He was wounded 5 times in the first 6 months he was in the Army. The last wound, a severe one in the shoulder, was received in the same battle in which he had 2 brothers killed and he was invalided out of the Army. Immediately after the war, Mr. Miller married Elizabeth Bading in Indiana and 2 children, Mrs Annie Hinds, Seattle and a son Herman, now deceased, were born to the couple. Mrs. Miller died and Mr. Miller took his 2 children who were infants and drove a mule team from Indiana to Canyon City Colorado and engaged in freighting between that town and Leadville, during the great gold rush days that made that camp one of the liveliest ever known. It was early in the 80's that Mr. Miller came to Washington Territory and built a sawmill at Auburn. He was maried to Miss Myra Wright in Auburn, April 4th, 1887 and lived there 5 years, where 2 children, Mrs. Austin Smith of Sequim and Frank Miller, now deceased, where born. From Auburn, Mr. Miller moved to Sequim in 1892 and settled on what is now know as the Ray Cays Ranch where he started a sawmill and operated that mill for 2 years, then he moved to the Hardgrove Ranch where 2 more children, Mrs. Olive Farrar, Seattle and George Miller of Colorado, were born. After living on the Hardgrove Ranch for several years, Mr. Miller operated a sawmill on the Evanson place unitl the death of his second wife, Dec. 1918, when he moved to Sequim to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Austin Smith and he was married again on August 9th, 1924 to Mrs. Matilda Brown of Sequim who survives him. Mr. Miller has the distinction of having owned the first automoble in Sequim. He drove that first car up until a few years ago when he bought a coupe and he operated that vehicle up until a few months before his death. Mr. Miller, who at the time of his death, was one of the few survivors of the Civl War in this county, had one of the most interesting careers of any of our citizens. He had spanned the continent, was wounded in the Civil War, saw stirring days of the Colorado gold rush and was a pioneer of this state and of Clallam County. The sturdy old man kept his vitality almost to the last and although old, was among the first to accept the changes of modern civilization. His mind was keen and he had many stories to tell of pioneer days. Years ago, Mr. Miller made arrangements for his burial which is to be a military one at Port Townsend next Sunday at 2pm. He was a member of the G.A.R. and of the Masonic Order. Surviving relatives are the widow, Mrs. Chis Miller, Sequim, a daughter, Mrs. Austin Smith, Sequim 2 other daughters, Mrs. Annie Hinds and Mrs. Olive Farrar of Seattle and a son, George Miller of Colorado.

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Latitude: 41.8446999
Longitude: -86.6089020

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Maria L. Wright Miller

(1858 - 1918)

Siblings

Children

Nettie Elizabeth Miller Smith

(1889 - 1960)

Frank Rarig Miller

(1891 - 1922)

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