Miller, Abner bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 924-925, Vermont Township
Abner Miller, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 23; P. O., Vermont; was born in Noble county, O., in 1836; his father, Stephen Miller, was also a native of the Buckeye State, where he married Phoebe Ross and had 5 children, - Elijah, Amos, Abner, Mary J. and Sarah A. In 1855 the family moved to this tp. and Mr. M. died in Aug., 1878: Mrs. M. is still living, upward of 73 years old: Abner was in his 18th year at the immigration to this place; in 1859 he married Ethelminda Walker, daughter of Jesse Walker, who settled in this township in 1853. Children: Jonathan L., Mary A., Frances E., Josephine, Emma, Lewis, Jesse G. and Howard, besides one deceased.