Pat Miller

Ancestors

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Biography

Only child. Child of the wild 1960's. Art College. Photographer. Writer. Worked in retail and vintage retail. Happily retired. High School Photo

High School

My parents John Russell Miller and Evelyn Alberta Stielow

Happy Couple 1943

Family Photos by Amateur Photographer

Family life in 1950s to early 1960s as photographed in Black and White by my father John Russell Miller. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:John%20Miller's%20Black%20&%20White%20Photos

Easter Blues

Genealogy

I began searching for my roots around 1980, which at that time featured a lot of letter writing, microfilm reading and inter-library loans. My cousin Gloria Miller was also searching and we began combining our efforts. As the years passed and we got computers we were in touch daily by email. She lived in Florida and I lived in Montreal. The emails made the distance between us disappear. Gloria died in 2009 and I put the computer away. In 2016 my best friend's daughter, who I've known for 20 years, gave me a DNA test on Ancestry as a Christmas gift. After that I started a tree on Ancestry. I found WikiTree in 2018 and understanding your different mission than Ancestry, I began moving the tree over, one person at a time with proof. No person goes in without a record. I try to give them a biography when I can. In the meantime I'm improving the Ancestry tree, always learning. I love this stuff. It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle. It's detective work. It's history.

My Genealogy Buddy, my much-missed Cousin Gloria Miller

Portrait of Gloria Miller

I Like to Walk

I walk everyday in winter, bundled up against the snarling wind with a long black and white scarf, 40 years old. I walk in the drenching rain of spring under the shelter of a scarlet umbrella, given to me by a friend dying of cancer who said I had enough panache to use it. I walk in the steady heat of summer, straw hat barely hiding my ruddy face, always listening for the drilling sound of woodpeckers probing the deep-grooved bark of tall trees. I walk among the yellows, oranges and reds of autumn with their maple leaves spreading across lawns as if to hide the incorrect color of grass. The high-flying geese come and go, never silently. The lake glistens with a thousand sparkles or hurls its foamy waves against the shoreline rocks. I like to walk.

Lakeshore

The lake near where I live, photographed on one of my walks.

My Photos

Places: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Patpics

Fairfax, Vermont

My Garden: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:FlowerPat

Daylily Quilt

Memories

I have to thank Eowyn Walker for her Question of the Week: Any ghost stories in your family tree? (Oct. 2021) I had a memory of breaking into a spooky, abandoned house that was supposed to be haunted when I was barely ten years old. The experience with three close friends lingered in my mind some 60 years later. A better place for memories like this and on other subjects was a free space page. I need to do this before I'm a ghost myself. I am including photos and illustrations with the memories. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Memories

Halloween Decoration

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by P. Miller at registration.
• Resting place for source on ancestors:40 . Record of the last Will and Testament of Robert Mills and proved and recorded as a Will of Real and Personal Estate this eighteenth day of June , One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine - State ofew York , Dutchess Surrogate Court . --- In the matter of proving the Bill --- of Robert Mills deceased ⎬ Dutchess County Surrogates Officess : Be it remembered that hereto fore upon due application for that purpose to the Surrogate of said Dutchess County , Citations were issued by said Surrogate to the hills and next of kin of said deceased , which said Citations with the admissions and proofs of said thereafter returned to said Surrogate and are as follows , to wit : The People of the State of New York : By the grace of God free and Independent . To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern and especialy . To George Miller of Canada , John ℗ Miller of Perry Centre , Genesee Luson do of Benjamin Pollock , Earl Jaycox & Mary his me , and Phebe Mills of Lyons , Wayne County , Joseph Barritt Mercy his wife of Utica Oneida County James Miller supposed to reside in the western part of this State , but whose particular place of is unknown ; Henry waters & Eliza his wife & Abraham Miller of Fishkill & Robert of Robert Mills deceased , Greeting : Whereas , Robert Mills late of the town of Fishbill in the County of Dutchess , deceased , as is alleged has lately died leaving a last Will and Testament relating to real and personal estate ; and Reuben Miller and Executor therein named , has applied to the Surrogate of said Dutchess County for the prose said Will . on and each of Law on hereby cited personally to be appear at a Surogates Court to be held before our Surrogate of the of Dutchess at his office in Poughkeepsie in said Dutchess County on the eighteenth day of June next , at ten oclock in the forenoon of that day , then and there to attend the Probate of the said last Will and Testament of said deceased . In Testimony whereof , we have caused the seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed . Witness James Hooker Esqr Surrogate of our said County of Dutchess at Poughkeepsie this twenty with day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine . State of New York , James Hooker Surrogate Philo R Cole of the City of Albany , being he is foreman in the office of the Albany ┃ Argus , the paper published by the printer to the State , and that the notice of which the annexed is a printed copy has been regularly published in said Albany Argus , once each week for six weeks successively , commencing on the third day of May last past . Sworn before me this 11th day of June 1839 for P.M Burt Commissioner of Deeds ⎬ Philo R. Cole --- The People of the State of New York . By the grace of God free and Independent To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern and especially , To Mary Mills , now , 1 Harry Vanderwater & Eliza his wife , Abraham Miller , of Fishkill , Robert Miller of La - Grange , Catharine Widow of Wm D Hunt , Robert Major , and George W Pudney & Mary Ann his wife of Poughkupse , Dutches & County , and Silas Haight of the same place , Guardian ad litem of Henry Miller a minor , heirs & c of Robert Mills deceased , Greeting : Whereas , Robert Wills late of the town of Fishkill in the County of Dutchess deceased , as is alleged has lately did leaving a last Will & Testament relating to real and personal estate : and Reuben Miller an Executor therein named , has applied to the Surrogate of said Dutchess County for the proof of said Will : You and each of you an hereby cited , personally to be and appear at a Surrogates Court to be held before our Surrogate of the County of Dutchess , at his Office in Poughkeepsie , in said Dutchess County , on the eighteenth day of June next , at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day , then and there to attend the Probate of the said last Will and Testament of said deceased . In Testimony whereof , we have caused the Seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed Witness , James Hooker Esquire Surrogate of our said County of Dutchess , at Poughkupsie this twenty ninth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine . James Hooker Surrogate . admit due since of the within citation . Dated April 29th 1839 . Silas Haight Guardian adlitem .