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| Margaret Hughes to Ebenezer Miller 13 Apr 1826:"Sister Sally Miller's family was very well the last time I heard from them. All her children is married but her youngest son, Ebenezer. He still lives with his Mother. James also lives with his Mother, but he lived with his father-in-law last year. He married a girl of the name of Ann Foster. Stephen and Joseph married sisters, their names were Sassers." Zilpah McGinty to Susan Miller, 18 June 1843: "The friends and relations are all very well in this section at present, mothers health has been very good for two or three months past, much better than it was during the winter. Phillip appears to be entirely recovering from that strange afflication of his head, he and Eliza were over at Cousin James and Ebenezers a short time since, they were all very well, Cousin James has two children and is talking of sending the oldest one over to the female Academy at Fayette, but I expect it is all talk for a year or two any how, Cousin Stephens two daughters have just got home from school. Eliza says they are splendid looking girls and the oldest quite accomplished, but she is a Campbellite. Cousin Eb has but one child, I think his wife a very fine woman indeed, they are to be over the first July to stay a month or two here and in Copiah." In the 1840 Census of Tensas County, Ebenezer Miller is listed adjacent to James Miller and Jane Williams as follows: Head of Family Ebenz Miller Males 1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 (males 0-5, 30-40, 60-70) Females 1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0 (females 0-5, 40-50) It is probable that between 1843 and 1850 both Ebenezer's first wife died. In 1850 Census of Tensas County, Ebenezer Miller is listed as 50 years old, occupation planter. No wife or children are listed--instead his household consisted of James R. Wilson, overseer, and Wilson's wife and two children. Based on the 1852 letter from Zilpah McGinty to Susan Miller below, I now believe that Gorton Miller and Ella Miller, who were listed in the McGinty household in the 1850 Census, were Ebenezer and Emily Church's children. Zilpah McGinty to Susan Miller, 19 May 1851: "Cousin Ebenezer is married again too & taken his children & I was very sorry to have to give them up. I was so much attached the them & they were such interesting children. He married a Mrs. Russell of Grand Gulf, a very nice smart woman indeed. She is thirty five has no children of her own & is very religious a Methodist & you know that suits Cousin Eben. But he had only known her about three month. I received a letter from him not long since & he writes that she is well calculated to fill the place she occupies. He brought her to see us & took all the children home & has a teacher in the house for them." Zilpah McGinty to Susan Miller, 13 December 1851: "...we never see a Miller in creation since Cousin Eben took his children home, but we hear from them over there pretty often. Cousin Eb is delighted with his nice wife that he cannot leave her any more. I reckon I have heard that she is a most excelent woman & that the children love her as well as if she was there own Mother & have heard it from different persons so I presume it is so. He has not wrote for some time." There are two children in the household of Zilpah McGinty in the 1850 census. Gorton Miller 4, and Ella Miller 2. Both are listed as born in Louisiana, which indicates they are members of the "Louisiana Miller" family. I had previously assumed they are children of Robert Miller and Emily Jane Miller, but the 1852 and 1860 Zilpah McGinty letters are persuasive evidence that they are instead the children of Ebenezer Miller and his first wife, Emily Church. Zilpah McGinty to Susan Miller, 26 March 1860: "I have heard nothing from our Water Proof relations for some time. Cousin Eben has moved to Madison Parish away back from the river. His daughters are still at Huntsville Alabama & Gorton is at Oakland." 1860 Census, Ward 7, Delhi P.O., Carroll Parish (16 June 1860) 32 33 Eben Miller 61 M Planter 29,025 49,000 Miss. Judith Miller 50 F Housewife 2,500 Miss. Mary Miller 17 F Student La. Cornelia Miller 15 F Student La. Joseph G. Miller 13 M Student La. Ebenezer Miller's plantation adjoined that of his brother James Miller--see Louisiana Genealogical Register, vol. ? page 4-6, which quotes from the Ordinances of the Police Jury of the Parish of Tensas, from 1843 to 1853 concerning the establishment of road districts in 1843: "Art. 167. District No. 33. To commence at the line between James and Ebenezer Miller's plantations and extend to the line between Thos. J. Buck and E. Loyd Wailes' plantations, and that the hands of W. E. Hall, Jas. Miller, B.R. Miller, T. J. Buck, J. and H. McCullough, J. P. Mason, G. W. Baynard, Gorton and Co., Eben Miller and E. P. Pollard we appropriated to work said road. Art. 172. District No. 38. To commence at the line between T. J. Buck and Lloyd Wailes and extend to the line between John and E. J. Tullis' plantations, and the the hands of E. J. Tullis, Est. A. Hunt, J. Wood, R. Y. and W. A. Skinner and T. C. Hall be appropriated to work said road. | ||||||||||
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