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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 25 Aug 1766 Tulpehocken / Berks / PA Death: 06 Mar 1846 Tulpehocken / Berks / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Served in Capt Shepler’s Co, Berks Co. PA
Additional References:
PA Archives, 3rd Series, Vol 6, pg 292
Spouse: Maria Salome Gilbert Children: Anna Maria;
Johannes Miller was born on 25 August 1766, in Tulpehocken Township (now Jefferson Township), Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Matthias & Susannah Catharina (Mueller) Mueller. Johannes Miller was the oldest male child of a family of seventeen children. Matthias Mueller was a farmer/ tanner and operated a leather tannery in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. After the Revolutionary War, Matthias along with his 4th wife and most of his many children relocated to Rockingham County, Virginia. Johannes Miller remained in Tulpehocken Township and continued in the tannery business.
As a teenager during the Revolutionary War, Johannes Miller served as a private in the Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia. He and his father Matthias served in Captain Battord’s Company, and he also served in Captain Henry Shepler’s Company.
On May 30, 1789, in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania., Johannes married Maria Salome Gilbert (1772-1854) who was born in what is now Douglass Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of famous “Fraktur Artist”, Conrad Gilbert & Anna Elisabeth Stoltz. Johannes was the father of ten children:
Johannes, Jr.
Samuel.
John.
Salome.
Margaret.
Elizabeth.
Catharine.
Henry.
Anna Maria.
Matthew.
Like his father, Johannes was a farmer and leather tanner and operated his tannery his entire life. He died on 6 March 1846, in Tulpehocken Township, probably at his homestead. Johannes and Maria Salome Miller are buried at the old cemetery at Christ Little Tulpehocken Church, Jefferson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery is only a mile or so from where Johannes Miller’s tannery was located.
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