John Earl "Earl" Miller

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 107158619
• _UID: B352D122E91743A7BF7E0D198B6FE9DD05E9
• Occupation: 1903, Enniskillen Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; farmer, on family farm, aged 17
• Land & Property-Witness: Abt 1934, Bothwell, Zone Twp, Kent County, Ontario, Canada; purchasers of the Bothwell property abandoned the property
• Residence: 1942, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; rented half his house to a family named Fishers, with three children
• Land & Property: 1954, Bothwell, Zone Twp, Kent County, Ontario, Canada; sold the Bothwell farm

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107158619

Land & Property-Witness:
Role: Witness
"The farm at Bothwell fell back on Mother and Dad's hands. Earl took it over but the people living there for four years handn't paid the taxes, fixed fences and had left it in bad shape. Earl used up what cash he had and started to farm just when you couldn't make any money no matter how hard you worked."

Residence:
"I'm sure he didn't get much out of his rent money but the three children adored Earl who was the Rock in their storm tosssed life. They must have lived with him for ten years and really in spite of broken down verandas etc. they were good company for him."

Land & Property:
Earl finally sold the Bothwell farm in the fall of 1954. He lived there another year until the family could move in."

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 107158108
• Occupation: Sombra Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; contract to deliver mail delivered to Sarnia by train to different post offices along the river
• Religion: elder in the Presbyterian church
• _UID: 07926251B50F457EA34B418D909290D71811
• Location: Aft 1875, Enniskillen Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; a farm was purchased for John
• Residence: 1885, Enniskillen Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; built house on property
• Residence: 1926
• Land & Property: 1934, Windsor, Essex County, Ontario, Canada; house in Windsor was without tenants and became a burden
• Land & Property: Abt 1934, Bothwell, Zone Twp, Kent County, Ontario, Canada; purchasers of the Bothwell property abandoned the property

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107158108

Occupation:
post offices included:
Fromfield, Corunna, Mooretown, Courtright, Bickford and Sombra.

Residence:
Dad and Mother were living with Gord and had bought a new stove in January 1926. "The stove was new but the chimney was old and in bad shape. Mother was home alone when a fire started in the chimney and Mother couldn't get it out. The neighbours came, but having had little experience with fires and remembering that a dresser was full of bullets brought back from France as souvenirs. In fact I think the bullets had started to go off. So only a few pieces of furniture was carried out and it was badly water soaked and harmed by sitting out in the snow. But they rented the farm just south of the old house and moved in and began to farm the two farms."

Land & Property:
"The farm at Bothwell fell back on Mother and Dad's hands. Earl took it over but the people living there for four years handn't paid the taxes, fixed fences and had left it in bad shape. Earl used up what cash he had and started to farm just when you couldn't make any money no matter how hard you worked."

John married Eliza Jane "Betty" SmallDetroit, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States. Eliza (daughter of Small and Jane Martin) was born on 12 Sep 1861 in Michigan, United States; died on 10 Nov 1936 in Chatham Twp, Kent County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Sombra Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 107158269
• Religion: Enniskillen Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada
• _UID: 708F6D454207478EB797657555E8E2465C97
• Location-Witness: Aft 1875, Sombra Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; bought 10 acres on Canadian side of the river
• Location: 1914, Bothwell, Zone Twp, Kent County, Ontario, Canada; traded 100 acre farm at Bicford for 200 acres farm at Bothwell
• Land & Property-Witness: 1934, Windsor, Essex County, Ontario, Canada; house in Windsor was without tenants and became a burden
• Land & Property-Witness: Abt 1934, Bothwell, Zone Twp, Kent County, Ontario, Canada; purchasers of the Bothwell property abandoned the property

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107158269

Religion:
" Mother was too busy being a mother to attend church much. She had three verses for her life.
1 Be careful to entertain strangers. You might by chance be entertaining angels unaware.
2. Never harm a little child. It would be beter for you to have a millstone tied around your neck and thrown into the sea.
3. Never call your brother a fool. He who calls his brother a fool will burn in hell's fire.
- all verses in the bible!

Location-Witness:
Role: Witness


Location:
"When Grandmother Small left Mother the farm it had a couple of barns and a house too small for a big family. Dad was a good carpenter and loved that work. He built us a very nice frame house with four bedrooms upstairs, a living room, hall, dining room, kitchen and pantry and two bedrooms downstairs. It was a lovely home with lots of fruit and flowering trees. I loved that home but when we moved to Bothwell in 1914 I never saw it again. The people who bought it managed to burn it. The reason for trading was to be near a high school. It was too expensive to board children in Sarnia. We moved to Bothwell and in August 1914 the war broke out in Europe. Gord and Earl had some military training in Niagara-on-the-Lake so they enlisted at once.

Land & Property-Witness:
Role: Witness


Land & Property-Witness:
Role: Witness
"The farm at Bothwell fell back on Mother and Dad's hands. Earl took it over but the people living there for four years handn't paid the taxes, fixed fences and had left it in bad shape. Earl used up what cash he had and started to farm just when you couldn't make any money no matter how hard you worked."

Died:
"In November 1936, Mother when out with Earl to help pick up the potatoes she was afraid he was letting freeze. She took a sick spell and the Doctor said she should have her gall bladder out, so on Monday morning November 10, 1936 she was operated on but didn't come out of the operation. On the noon mail I had got a letter from her and supper I got the telegram that she was dead. She was buried from Doug's house."

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 107156877
• Occupation: Sombra Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; timber merchant
• _UID: 804825E8C3DF46F28D45FCB6BF60D112358E
• Residence: 24 May 1833, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
• Location: Abt 1875, Sombra Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; on the St Clair River
• Land & Property: 10 Mar 1883, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; bought Concession 14 Lot 1, Sombra Twp
• alt Death: 1 Dec 1886, Watford, Warwick Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

(Research):notes suggest born at Galt, ON but this may have been where he was baptised.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107156877

Occupation:
The land in Sombra township was covered with great big trees. The Millers bought the logs and shipped it (sic) to other ports on the St. Clair.

Residence:
Lanark Township Concession 3 Lot 21

Location:
land was "from the channel of the river, back Stanley Line about 1/3 mile". The plan was that the father would build a dock or peer (sic) out into the channel of the river where ships could stop.

Land & Property:
for Robert?

Died:
Event Description: Event Description: from John and Eliza Miller story

John married Jane "Anne" Morrison on 14 Aug 1860 in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. Jane (daughter of John Morrison and Mary Margaret McGregor) was born on 3 Feb 1837 in Dundas, West Flamborough & Ancaster Twp, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada; was christened on 14 Mar 1837; died on 22 Feb 1916 in Enniskillen Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Sombra, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 107157031
• Name: Anne Morrison
• _UID: DA18D36108CD48109AEF2E537461CB7F7C22
• Occupation: Aft 1888, Sombra Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; farm and timber business
• Travel - Arrival: 1903, Kansas, United States; traveled to Kansas to visit relatives

Notes:

(Research):Died at the home of Sarah Dingman with Sarah and her son John Hugh Dingman at her side. In honour of being grandmother of Earl and Gordon who were in the anadian Expeditionary Forces, Vance Stratton, the head of the regiment stationed in Courtright requested the privilege of giving her a military funeral.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107157031

Occupation:
"Grandma tried to hire help and carry on the farm. She got herself in an awful muddle so Dad decided to help his Mother carry on. It was very hard on Dad but he believed it was his duty and I don't suppose anyone ever heard him complain.

Notes:

Married:
Name:?tab?John Millen
[John Miller]
Age:?tab?25
Birth Year:?tab?abt 1835
Birth Place:?tab?Canada
Residence:?tab?Sarnia Township
Marriage Date:?tab?14 Aug 1860
Marriage Place:?tab?Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Father:?tab?John Millen
Mother:?tab?Janet Lyle
Spouse:?tab?Anne Morrison

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: C69F915E0AA74C189D6991F8F25AA17C6173
• Location: Aft 1875, Sombra Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; bought 10 acres on Canadian side of the river

married Jane Martin. Jane (daughter of David Martin and Ellen Douglas) was born about 1837; died about Jan 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: BA776576ED214EE8AD8AC07967AFEA8545E5
• Location-Witness: Aft 1875, Sombra Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; bought 10 acres on Canadian side of the river

Notes:

Location-Witness:
Role: Witness

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: FCB65F4106FD4EDD8EFCCFEA9FE2499F2CF4
• Land & Property: 1821, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; land grant
• Residence: 24 May 1833, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Concession 3 Lot 21.
• Census: 1861, Sarnia Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1871, Sarnia Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1873, Sarnia Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; C4 L3 - 100 acres purchased for $600.
• Census: 1881, Sarnia Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

(Research):1836 purchased 50 acres on C 3 L4 Sarnia Twp, Lambton County (date also recorded in notes from Lambton archives as 1834). He built a log cabin and stable, cleared the land and lived here until 1855.
1855 purchased 100 acres in C4 L4 Sarnia Twp.
William Miller recalls an elm tree 7 feet in diametr and an oak tree 6.5 feet, which was large but not unusual.
Religion: Presbyterian
Politics: Reform Party

Christened:
MILLER
JOHN
JOHN MILLER/HELEN GOODWIN FR1944 (FR1944)
M
07/10/1803
644/1
200 176
Glasgow

Died:
Name?tab?John Miller
Gender?tab?Male
Age?tab?83
Birth Date?tab?1801
Birth Place?tab?Scotland
Death Date?tab?21/03/1884
Death Place?tab?Lambton Ontario Canada
Religion?tab?Presbyterian
Cause of Death?tab?Heart Disease

John married Janet Lyle on 27 Apr 1830 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Janet (daughter of Walter Lyle and Margaret Halliday) was born on 14 Apr 1812 in Ironmacannie Mill, Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright, Scotland; died on 8 Apr 1872 in Sarnia Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Irwin Cemetery, Bunyan, Sarnia Twp, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: MMST-WSM
• _UID: 5EFF28790C5D4145BDB1B5AA44966ECCCE75
• Census-Wife of Head: 1861, Sarnia Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Wife of Head: 1871, Sarnia Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

(Research):I am descended from Janet Lyle and John Miller's son David Miller. His daughter, Agnes, is my great-grandmother. I don't know anything about the Main family other than what you know.

I visited Janet Lyle's place of birth last year. Ironmacannie Mill is exactly that, a grain mill with a miller's cottage at the side, in Balmaclellan Parish, Kirkudbright, Scotland. Her father was obviously the miller on the estate. I don't know where he came from, but I do know Janet's mother, Margaret Halliday, was a local girl.

Many Scots migrated to the US, Canada, and Australia in the early 1800s due to the enclosure acts in Britain. Our relatives migrated to Dalhousie Township in Lanark County, Ontario where many Scots immigrated in 1821.

John and Janet moved in 1836 to Lot 4, Concession 3, Sarnia Township, Lambton County, Ontario in 1836. John bought 50 acres from the local landowner Malcolm Cameron. He was the first to clear the land of the forest and later built a log house and stable on the plot. In 1855, they moved again when he bought 100 acres at Lot 4, Concession 4, Sarnia Township. Again, he had to clear the land of the virgin forest (but now he was 52 years old).

John died of heart disease in 1884. I don't know where he was buried. I know where Janet is buried, though. She is buried in the Irwin Cemetery. It is a tiny, country cemetery near the corner of Confederation Road and Brigden Sideroad in Sarnia. Her headstone spells her name as Jenet.

Sincerely,
Living van Hoogenhuize

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MMST-WSM

Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


Buried:
Irwin Cemetery, Sarnia Township, Ontario, Canada

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 1E95D2F6A4A64631A8DDF7681FAD7963C8D1

John married Mary Margaret McGregor about 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 88F9D754E49A4E67A61F423CD278841505A4

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 8EE9144E076F4C2DACCAEA398819170E2761

David married Ellen Douglas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: A0EF9DB85A584E768BA13C4A22549F6F90EB