Miller, Elizabeth
| Also Known As | Miller, Elizabeth |
| Nick Name | Eliza |
| Also Known As | Miller, Eliza |
| Gramps ID | I0864 |
| Gender | female |
Events
| Event | Date | Place | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sources | Notes | ||
| Immigration | 1837 | ||
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Parents
| Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father | Miller, John T. [I1814] | 1797-07-18 | 1864-01-15 | |
| Mother | Ach, Henrietta [I5823] | 1793-04-26 | 1860-10-03 | |
| Sister | Miller, Sophia [I1813] | 1817 | 1887 | |
| Miller, Elizabeth [I0864] | ||||
| Sister | Miller, Henrietta [I0038] | 1827-04-28 | 1900-10-18 | |
| Brother | Miller, John C. [I1811] | 1829 | 1917 | |
| Brother | Miller, Frederick [I1812] | 1833-01-08 | 1906-12-02 | |
| Brother | Miller, Johnathan [I1815] |
Families
| Family of Forst, Samuel and Miller, Elizabeth [F0529] | |||||||||||
| Unknown | Partner | Forst, Samuel [I0866] ( * 1824-11-17 + 1888-08-17 ) | |||||||||
| Children |
| Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
|---|---|---|
| Forst, John [I5853] | 1847 | |
| Forst, Eliza [I1804] | 1849-02-22 | 1902-02-27 |
Narrative
Note: Elizabeth (Miller) Forst
Very little concrete information is available for Elizabeth, first wife of Samuel Forst; her death prior to 1850 almost certainly contributes to the lack of records that can be found, and were it not for her connections on two sides of the family - she was the sister of Henrietta (Miller) Forst and married the older brother of George Washington Forst, my fourth-great-grandparents - there likely would have been little in family notes and oral history to function as a starting point for research.
Family notes put the Miller family's immigration to America at 1837, when the oldest child was about twenty and the youngest would have been a young child; all of them were said to have been born in Bavaria in southwestern Germany, and by 1850 the family was resident in Crawford Cty, Ohio, where Elizabeth was likely married to Samuel Forst around 1845 or 1846. Their first son, John, was born about 1847, and their second child, Eliza, was born in February of 1849. Samuel remarried in July of 1850, and was living in Liberty Twp, Crawford Cty when counted in the US Census in September of 1850 with his second wife and his oldest child, John - while Eliza was sent to live in Huntington, Huntington Cty, Indiana, with her paternal grandparents David and Mary (Schlosser) Forst. (Also living with David and Mary were the newlyweds George Washington Forst, Samuel's brother, and Henrietta Miller, Elizabeth's sister.)
No birth, death, or burial information has been found for Elizabeth, and I have not yet located any 1840 US Census record for her parents' household that might present some information on Elizabeth's potential age. It seems reasonable to assume she was younger than sister Sophia (Miller) Minnich, and older than sister Henrietta (Miller) Forst - there is a ten-year gap between those sisters. If we assume a birthdate in the early 1820s - say, 1822 to 1824 - then that puts her in her early-to-mid twenties at her presumed marriage date of about 1845 or 1846 (about the same age as Samuel), and in her mid-to-late twenties at the birth of her daughter Eliza, just before her death. It is possible that she was much younger, but the gaps between the birthdates of the other known siblings simply are not as large as that between Sophia and Henrietta, so I think it more likely that Elizabeth was born between those two.
It would be reasonable to assume she died and is buried in Crawford Cty, Ohio, but no information has been found to that end yet.