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 925, Vermont Township
Abraham Miller, farmer, sec. 2; P. O., Ipava; was born in Pa.,
in 1803; his parents were Abraham and Catherine (Bender) Miller, the
former an agriculturist, who moved to Ohio in 1815 and died in 1827, in
Clermont Co., that State; the latter migrated to Vermont tp. in 1836
and died in 1842. Abraham, the younger, grew to manhood in Ohio, where
he married Miss Mary G., daughter of Robert Dobbins, and has had since
the following-named children: Eliza J., who married John Cadwallader
and resides in Bushnell township, McDonough Co.; Mary, who married
Cyrus Bartholomew, and after his decease John Ross; Robert M., who
married Mary Cadwallader, and after her decease Miss Sarah Ackerson;
and Amanda Ann, who married Jesse Wiley, of Hancock Co. Robert M. was
severely wounded at the battle of Murfreesborough.
