Just in time for Christmas: The tombstone of Peter Miller (1779-1845)

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Peter Miller was born Pennsylvania 10 Aug 1779, died Stark County, Ohio, 11 June 1845. He married first, at Pennsylvania, ca 1800, Rosanna Kimmerling, born 17 Sept 1781; died 17 June 1813, dau. Ludwick and Anna (Bonewitz) Kimmerling. Peter married second, Columbiana County, Ohio, 29 Dec 1813 by James McCracken, Mary Stewart, born ?Maryland, 1786; died Paris Twp., Stark County, Ohio, April 1855.

Seven children were born to Peter and Rosanna; five to Peter and Mary. Twelve children survived at the time of Peter's death.

Our many thanks to David Brower for sharing the image, included here with his permission.

Select Sources
[1] LVene (Smith) Thomas, Miller Ancestral Chart, c1997, 26 pp., supplied by Thomas (1910-2004), Iowa, correspondence to GJ, 1997; based on her family knowledge and research, c1935-1997, about Peter Miller's descendants. According to her son, John, the obituaries, wills and other documents that LVene saved are maintained in three ring binders, which he inherited upon her death (int. of J. H. Thomas, February 2008); the collection includes only a few of the many letters she received from relatives over the years; reports date of birth and death for Peter Miller, Rosanna Kimmerling (as d. 17 June 1803 [sic]), birth and death for Mary Stewart; father of Rosanna Kimmerling; various children's births. LVene (Smith) Thomas was a descendant of Peter Miller by his son, John Miller m. Rebecca Firestone Carle.
[2] Date of Miller-Kimmerling marriage estimated based on the birth of their first child, Samuel Miller, b. 26 Sept 1801. Place of Miller-Kimmerling marriage as Pennsylvania based on where Rosanna's father lived at about the time of their marriage and where Peter and Rosanna's first four children were born.
[3] Will of Peter Miller, dated 8 June 1845, probated Stark County, Ohio, 17 Jun 1845; filed Stark County wills B: 374. The will calls out the names of Peter's 12 known children and provides the names of his daughters' husbands.
[4] Clifford T. Wig, "Family Tree of Daniel Miller and Lucinda Baker, " Canton, Ohio, 1986,  FHL film no. 1321475 Item 8. Clifford Wig's grandson descends of Peter Miller by the his son, Daniel Miller. Wig reports Peter Miller b. 1779, d. 11 June 1845.
[5] Mrs. John L. (Helen) Preston (1899-1988), genealogical file, charts and research notes, c1930-1980. Helen was born at Ross County, Ohio; she and John lived at Chillicothe from about the time of their marriage until the early 1950s. They traveled to various towns and counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania in search of evidence about John's ancestors. 
[6] Subsequent correspondence with Jack Stover, e-mails of 27 Dec 2010, citing Stark County Chapter OGS, Cemetery Inscriptions ... Vol. 1 (15 Feb 1982), p. 346, reports "Peter Miller (d. 11 June 1845; a 66y)." [GJ Note: If Peter Miller was ae 66 at the time of his death and also born on August 10th, then he was born in 1778, not 1779 as most of our family histories suggest. ]