• General Notes

  REFN: 8
  The following is taken from obituary notice:
  "Died at his home in Marengo, on Monday morning, Nov. 12, 1906, Fred
  Miller, age 57 years, 11 months and 1 day.  
  Mr. Miller's death was not unlooked for as he had been sick for a
  number of months past, and his malady failed to yield to treatment.
  Fred Miller was born in Brunswick, Germany, January 11, 1849, son of
  Frank Miller, a stonemason by trade.  In 1851 the latter came with his
  family, consisting of a wife and three children, to America.  They lived
  in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, New York where the father died in
  1854.  In August, 1862, the family came to Iowa County and located at
  South Amana, residing there three years and then moving to Marengo.  Fred
  Miller was the youngest of three children born to his parents and at the
  age of thirteen years began the work of a stonemason with his step-father
  Henry Keye.  At the age of 17 he engaged in farming, and at the time of
  his death he was the owner of considerable farming land in Iowa County.
  On the 9th day of August, 18871, Mr. Miller was united in marriage
  to Miss Christena Klever, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Klever, of Pilot
  township, and to them were born four children:  Mrs. John H. Tiernan, of
  Fillmore township, Mrs. Ed Pope, of Troy township; Mrs. R.A. Simmons, of
  Honey Creek township, and Mrs. Walter Smith of Hartford township, all of
  whom, together with the wife, survive to mourn his departure.
  Funeral services will be held at the Presbyterian church this
  afternoon at 2 o'clock, services being conducted by Rev. Fred B. Tucker
  of the M.E. church and the burial, which will be under the auspices of
  the Masonic Lodge, will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. 
  The family have the sincere sympathy of all in the hour of
  bereavement."

Details of Fred's family with Christena Klever