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Pinkney Story Miller

Birth	:	23 Mar 1827 Miller County, Missouri, USA
Death	:	19 Jun 1912 Olean, Miller County, Missouri, USA
Burial	:	Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.3667700, -92.5300800
Description	:	Pinkney died in 1912; here is his Death Certificate. Pinckney S. Miller, the first male white child born in Miller County and for whom the county was named, died at his home in Olean Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock after an illness of a short duration of old age and a complication of diseases. Deceased was 85 years, 2 months and 26 days old. Mr. Miller was born March 23rd, 1827. In 1848 he was first married to Miss Lucy Ann McKenzie to which union seven children were born, six daughters and one son, five of the daughters... Read More	Pinkney died in 1912; here is his Death Certificate. Pinckney S. Miller, the first male white child born in Miller County and for whom the county was named, died at his home in Olean Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock after an illness of a short duration of old age and a complication of diseases. Deceased was 85 years, 2 months and 26 days old. Mr. Miller was born March 23rd, 1827. In 1848 he was first married to Miss Lucy Ann McKenzie to which union seven children were born, six daughters and one son, five of the daughters survive. His first wife departed this life twenty years ago and he was remarried to Miss Ceilia S. Powell on May 30th, 1899, who also survives. The surviving children are Mrs. L.D. Atkinson, Olean; Mrs. Ben Hines, Spring Garden; Mrs. W.M. Long, Rock Enon; Mrs. Z.O. Bacon, Eugene and Mrs. Samuel Starling of Olean. Besides the children, deceased is survived by twenty-nine grandchildren, thirty eight great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. He was a member of the Christian Church, vice-president of the Miller County Exchange Bank and prominent in other business and social circles of Olean. He was also numbered among the best known and most highly respected citizens of Miller County. Funeral services will be held at Olean today (Friday) at 1:00 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Edmund Wilkes, after which the remains will be laid to rest in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery four miles south of Olean. Published in the Russellville Weekly Rustler, Friday, June 21, 1912 ___________________________________________________________ "Pinckney S. Miller, farmer and stockman, of Miller County, Missouri, was born in what is now Miller County (then Cole County), Missouri in 1827, being the fourth of fourteen children born to William and Sarah (Mulkey) Miller, who were born in Virginia and North Carolina, October 23, 1795 and December 13, 1800, respectively . . . P.S. Miller, whose name heads this sketch, was the first male white child born in what is now Miller County, and was educated in the select schools of the latter county. He aided his father on the farm, and on November 16, 1848, was wedded to Miss Lucy A. McKenzie, who was born in Cole County, and ever since has resided on the farm where he now lives, which consists of 320 acres, 120 of which were given him by his father. All the land is under fence, and over 160 acres are under cutivation. He raises a good grade of cattle, hogs, and sheep, and is considered one of the prosperous farmers of the county. He is a democrat in politics, and in 1879-80 was sheriff and collector of Miller County, and in 1883-84 filled the office of collector only...... Mr. Miller was residing in the county when it was first organized, in 1836, and the first county court was held in his father's house, also the first circuit court. The county was named in honor of his father and brothers. Mrs. Miller is the daughter of John and Agnes (GIBSON) McKENZIE, who were born near Rockingham, North Carolina, and immigrated to Cole County, in 1829. The father followed farming until his death in 1871. His wife died in 1870." [Agnes died in 1867 followed by John in 1868. T.N.] (Published in the Goodspeed book, 1889) ___________________________________________________________ (Mr. P. S. Miller of Eldon was in the city Saturday attending to matters of business. Mr. Miller bears the distinction of being the first male child of civil race born in Miller County, the county being named for his father, William Miller, who took to the legislature the petition asking for admission. His father also erected the first log cabin in the county, having come on from Virginia in the year 1825. Prior to that he was a captain in the Black Hawk war. Mr. Miller is still a man of activity and one of the successful citizens of his county. He recalls many of the people and incidents of the past. (May 23, 1902 Newspaper Article from the Russellville Rustler, Russellville, Cole Co., MO -- History of Cole County from State Tribune) ___________________________________________________________ THE MILLER FAMILY OF MILLER COUNTY, MISSOURI Boyd Miller Sr. was an Irishman who came to America prior to the Revolutionary War. He served under General George Washington. Boyd settled in Greenbriar County, Virginia and married Mary Story. They had 2 children, William Miller born 1795 and a daughter (name unknown). After Mary's death, Boyd married Elizabeth Stephenson and they had several more children including Boyd Jr., Elijah, Jacob, Jefferson, Samuel, John, Anna, Hannah, and Elizabeth. In 1809 Boyd moved his family to Kentucky and stayed until 1815. During this time, Boyd served in the War of 1812 serving with the Kentucky Militia. Circa 1815, they came to the new frontier, sometimes called "Upper Louisiana" and settled in the young city of St. Louis. In 1818, the Millers moved and settled for a short time near Meramec. For some reason they did not linger there long and moved on to the Moniteau/Cole counties region of Central Missouri. Circa 1819, William and his brother, Boyd, bought the old Factory Fort which stood near the Missouri River about 30 miles west of Jefferson City. By 1821, they moved to the Spring Garden area of present Miller County. The best I can determine, the nephew of Boyd Miller Sr. was John Miller, who became Missouri's 4th governor in 1825. My conclusion was drawn when I found an old obituary of Charity Miller Clay, niece of William Miller and daughter of Boyd Jr. In her obituary it stated she was a second cousin to Governor John Miller. Boyd Miller Sr. died about 1824 and was buried at the place where he settled when he came to central Missouri (Old Factory Fort), now called Marion. Many of the Millers who came south into Cole & Miller counties are buried in the Spring Garden cemetery. For a few years, the Millers had been 'squatters' on the prairie land near Spring Garden before they officially filed a land patent in 1826. William Miller married Sarah Mulkey in Cooper County, MO on 21 August 1820. Sarah was a daughter of John & Polly (Lewis) Mulkey of Rutherford County, So. Carolina. William was born in Virginia 23 Oct 1795 and died in Miller County on 7 Feb 1878. Sarah was born in So. Carolina 13 Dec 1800 and died in Miller County 2 May 1884. Both are buried in the old Spring Garden Cemetery. The father of Sarah, John Mulkey, is buried in a lone spot near present-day Mt. Pleasant in Saline Township. There is evidence that other graves could be there also. Boyd Miller Jr. married Isabella Mulkey, sister to Sarah. Isabella and Boyd married in Cole Co., MO on March 10, 1825. John Mulkey, father of Sarah and Isabella, was born in Rutherford Co., SC in 1768 and was closely related to Phillip Mulkey, one of the first Campbellite preachers (later called Disciples of Christ) to come into central Missouri. Rev. Mulkey pastored the Spring Garden church, organized in 1840. William Miller patented many acres of land along the Osage River in Equality Township in April 1833 and it was on this land he built his one-room log cabin in 1834 where he, Sarah and their children lived for a few years. I believe the old log cabin, hidden for many years inside the walls of the Tellman house, was the oldest structure standing in Miller County before it was destroyed by fire in the early 1980s. After 3 years of crop failure, due to high water covering his corn fields, William finally decided to move and trade the land back for his old homeplace near Spring Garden. Three of William's sons continued to farm on the Spring Garden prairie after his death in 1878. The children of William and Sarah (Mulkey) Miller included: Jennetta (Witten); Mary (Stephens); Cerena (Stephens); Delila (Williams); Margaret (Witten); Caroline (Jones); Isabella (Shipley); Pinkney S. Miller; Boyd Miller; John Mulkey Tate Miller; Thomas Hart Benton Miller; and Sarah Miller. The Miller family played an important role in the settlement and organization of the county. William Miller carried a petition, with many signatures, to Missouri's state legislature to request that Miller County be formed from land north of the Osage river (then Cole County) and an equal amount from the south side (then Pulaski County) and he was instrumental in the final success of county organization. Within the walls of William Miller's log cabin, the wheels of government began to grind on May 1, 1837. It was there, over 160 years ago, that five men met with William Miller and his family and held the first session of the Miller County Court. William Ernest Miller, a grandson of William and Sarah (Mulkey) Miller, was still alive in Etterville, MO (Saline Township of Miller County) in 1990 when I wrote my book, PIONEER FAMILIES OF MILLER COUNTY, MISSOUR, not far from where his ancestors homesteaded all those years ago. He passed away a few years later. I visited with William Ernest Miller before his death and he realized he had a wonderful heritage. Who among you today can say that when your grandfather was born, George Washington was serving as the first President of the Unites States? In only three generations, the William Ernest Miller's ancestral family had lived under the leadership of 42 Presidents from Washington to Bush!! ___________________________________________________________ Peggy Smith Hake [author of the above] was born in Miller County, near Iberia, at the end of the Great Depression of the mid 1930s. She was born on a farm in southwest Richwoods Township on land that had been homesteaded by her great, great grandparents, John Levi and Nancy (Keeth) Whittle who came to Miller County from Edmonson County, Kentucky in the mid 19th century. Her ancestral roots are deeply embedded in the land and the history of Miller County. Peggy is the daughter of G. Oliver Smith and Verlie A. (Wyrick), both natives of Miller County. She is a graduate of Iberia High School and spent 12 years in the Iberia school system. For several years she lived in Kansas City and reared her children there. While in Kansas City, she was employed with Indian Springs State Bank of Kansas City, Kansas where she advanced to associate vice president. In 1979, she moved back to her home area near Iberia and spent some time in politics, serving as the county's first woman county judge and commissioner.

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Where is Pinkney Story Miller's memorial?
Pinkney Story Miller's memorial is located at: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Eldon, Miller County, USA.
When did Pinkney Story Miller death?
Pinkney Story Miller death on 19 Jun 1912 in Olean, Miller County, Missouri, USA
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Latitude: 38.3667700
Longitude: -92.5300800

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Lucy Ann McKenzie Miller

(1830 - 1892)

Siblings

Children

Sarah Agnes Miller Atkinson

(1850 - 1927)

Mary Malinda Miller Hinds

(1852 - 1929)

Isaphena Miller Long

(1854 - 1938)

Fannie Thomas Miller Bacon

(1858 - 1935)

Lou Ann Miller Starling

(1860 - 1940)

John F Miller

(1862 - 1881)

Margaret Marinda “Maggie” Miller Weaver

(1865 - 1898)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3667700, -92.5300800

2. Mount Vernon Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3624992, -92.5606003

3. Salem Cemetery
Saline Township, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3691232, -92.5697260

4. Salem Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3697014, -92.5714035

5. Eldon Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3642006, -92.5868988

6. Olean Cemetery
Olean, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4131012, -92.5413971

7. Green Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4116200, -92.5645700

8. Allen Cemetery
Olean, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4150009, -92.5008011

9. Hite Cemetery
Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4039001, -92.5935974

10. Etter-Walker Cemetery
Burris Fork, Moniteau County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4333700, -92.5525400

11. Walker Cemetery
Moniteau County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4338989, -92.5522003

12. Farris Cemetery
Moniteau County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4369900, -92.5380000

13. Artz-Wenzel Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.2980995, -92.5622025

14. Jackson Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery
California, Moniteau County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4447900, -92.5286500

15. Taylor Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3443985, -92.6303024

16. Harbison-Russell Cemetery
Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.2990000, -92.4633500

17. Skinner Cemetery
Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.2806015, -92.5481033

18. Gray Cemetery
Moniteau County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4536018, -92.5456009

19. Gageville Cemetery
Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3161011, -92.4330978

20. Dooley Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3191400, -92.6353500

21. Colburn Cemetery
Eldon, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4246300, -92.6275500

22. Spring Garden Cemetery
Spring Garden, Miller County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3922005, -92.4111023

23. Phillips Cemetery
High Point, Moniteau County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4430300, -92.6125300

24. Bruce-Lewis-McGahan Cemetery
Enon, Moniteau County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4667500, -92.5172100