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Note: West Virginia, Marriages Index, 1785-1971 Name:�tab�Christian Miller Gender:�tab�Male Spouse's Name:�tab�Catherine Widmire Spouse Gender:�tab�Female Marriage Date:�tab�1831 Marriage Place:�tab�Morgan, West Virginia, United States 1830 Not Stated, Morgan, Virginia Census Pg 19 Christian Miller 50-59*** 1 male under 5 2 males 5-9 2 females under 5 1 female 20-29 1850 District 42, Morgan, VA Census Pg. 17, Aug 28 Christian Miller 43 Farmer $2000 VA*** Catharine (Widmeyer) (wife) 40 VA 8 children all b. VA: William 18, Washington 16, both farmers Joshua 13, Ann 11, Franklin 7, Hyrum 5, Levina 4, Marthy 3 and Mathias 6/12 (male). 1860 District 2, Morgan, VA. Census Pg. 26, no date William Miller 27 farmer VA Mary (wife) 29 Eliza (dau) 2 NEXT: Christian Miller 55 farmer $8812 VA*** Catherine (Widmeyer) 53 VA 7 children: Franklin 18, Hiram 16, both farmers S. (female) 12, Martha J. 10 Matthais (male) 9, Joseph 7, and Jefferson M. 5. 1870 Rock Gap Township, Morgan, WV #7 Hiram Miller 24 Farm laborer Maria (wife) 29 2 children: Florence 2, and Lewella 1/12. NEXT: Catharine 60 Wd (Widmyer) Miller 3 children: Jane 21, Joseph 19, and Jefferson 11 Catharine Miller is the mother of Hiram Miller. Following Catharine Miller's listing is one for 38 year NEXT: William Miller Farmer Mary (wife) 39 4 children: Eliza 11, maria 9, May 7, and Laura 5 Louisa Miller 27 Eliza Hobdy 31 NEXT: John Youngblood 27 Farm Hand Levina (Miller) Youngblood (wife) 22 Nancy Foutch 12 Christian Miller 1864 From the Library of Congress: website: www.Chroniclingarmerica.loc.gov Old Newspapers: Daily Intelligencer dated 24 Sept 1864 image #3 Provost, The Murderer- The following are the proceedings of the Military Commission in the case of private Joseph Provost, now confined in the Athenaeum, in irons, awaiting his sentence. Specifications -- In this, that he, the said Joseph Provost, a private in company A, First New York Volunteer Cavalry, an enlisted soldier in the service of the United States, did, on or about the nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the county of Morgan, State of West Virginia, and within the lines of the Military Department of West Virginia, enter the dwelling house of one Christian Miller, a peaceable citizen of said county and State and did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, willfully and of his malice aforethought, and in violation of the laws of war, shoot, with a revolver in his hand, then and there held, the said Christian Miller by which shooting as aforesaid, he, the said Joseph Provost, did inflict upon the head of the said Christian Miller two mortal wounds, of which said mortal wounds, or one of them, he, the said Christian Miller, afterwards, to wit: On the day and year and place aforesaid, did die. To which charge and specification the accused pleaded " Not Guilty " The Commission having maturely considered the evidence addressed , finds the accused, Joseph Provost, private of Company A, 1st New York Volunteer Cavalry as follows: Of the specifications of charge, " Guilty" Of the charge, " Guilty " And the Commission does, therefore, sentence him, the said Joseph Provost, private, 1st New York Volunteer Cavalry, " To be hung by the neck until dead, at such time and place as the General commanding shall direct - two thirds of the members of the Commission concurring therein. Provost is to be executed in Cumberland tomorrow, the Commanding General having so directed. Daily Register dated 29 Sept 1864 image #3 Joseph Provost, a private of the first New York Cavalry, who was recently taken from this city to Cumberland, who is charged with murdering, in cold blood, a citizen of Bath, Morgan County, VA will suffer the penalty of death tomorrow. The Cumberland Alleghenian says " the condemned man is about twenty-five years of age, and presents rather a fine personal appearance". He is a native of Montreal, East Canada, of French decent, and has a father and sister residing at that place. He asseverates that he is innocent of the charge for which he is to suffer, but admits the he was with the party by whom the murder was committed. The Daily Register dated 07 October 1864 image #3 Execution of Joseph Provost - The Cumberland Alleganian of this week contains the following notice of the military execution of Joseph Provost, the condemned man who was for sometime in the Athenaeum in this city: The execution of Joseph Provost, for the murder of Christian Miller, in Bath, Morgan County, Va. agreeable to the postponement took place on Friday last. At a quarter past eleven o'clock the prisoner was brought out of the jail, accompanied by Rev. Father Brennan, of St Patrick's Catholic Church, his spiritual adviser. He was placed in the cart, on either side of which a file of guards was placed. A procession was then formed, consisting of all the cavalry troops stationed here, and at 20 minutes past 11 o'clock, it moved from the jail to the place of execution. Arrived there, the brief space intervening before the appointed hour was passed in solemn devotion, the condemned man participating with apparent fervor and contrition. A few minutes before 12 o'clock the noose was adjusted about the criminal's neck, he was placed upon the trap, and at precisely 12 o'clock the trap fell. The rope by some means became loosened from the ring which was attached to the cross beam of the gallows, and the condemned man fell heavily to the ground; he was immediately raised up however, and supported in again ascending the steps to the platform by the Rev Father Brennan. But a few minutes elapsed when the necessary arrangements having been made, the noose was a second time placed about his neck, and in a very brief space of time the unhappy man was launched into eternity. After hanging until life was extinct, his body was cut down and interred. Find A Grave site: Miller Cemetery, Berkeley Springs, Morgan Co., West Virginia Christian Miller BIRTH 1807 Morgan County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 19 Apr 1864 Morgan County, West Virginia, USA Others buried in this family cemetery: Minnie Elizabeth Miller Jackson 1/23/1874 7/29/1949 Catherine Widmire Miller birth & death dates unknown Infant Son Miller birth & death dates unknown Joseph S. Miller Jan. 30, 1852 Aug. 31, 1939 Louisa Permelia Bowers Miller Apr 20, 1841 Oct 17, 1918 Virginia Idabell Miller July 13, 1870 May 11, 1873 Miller Family Cemetery. Located about 7 miles south of Berkeley Springs, WV., off Rt. 522 beside Hank Aaron Road. It is presently a development but was the site of the Miller Family farm for several generations. Christian Miller is the oldest known grave but there are numerous graves unmarked. [NOTE: Researchers should search records at the Berkeley Sprs. courthouse & library for better information than what they are showing. Perhaps Christian Miller (born 1776 & died after 1840) may have been one or at least supportive of the Timberland Millers near Rt 522. But Christian Miller (1807-1864) and his family were known as the Sleepy Creek Millers. His grave would have been on his farm located there. The floodings of the Potomac River & Sleepy Creek ruined the family farm cemetery.) -
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