A transcription of pages 195-469,
Family Histories from the Verdigre Centennial Book
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MILLER-MUELLER FAMILY

Gustav and Minnie Miller and William and Julie Eckert Mueller all emigrated from Germany. The Gustav Millers were from the Black Forest region of Germany. He was a woodcutter or lumberman by trade. They came to this country in 1872.

William Mueller filed papers February 24, 1874, in Dewey Precinct described as the Southeast Quarter of Section 2 in Wayne County, proving up on the claim in 1880.

Gustav Miller’s son Henry and William Mueller’s daughter Minnie were married March 25, 1896. Henry was born September 17, 1874, and Minnie was born May 5, 1876. L They had nine children, a baby boy died in infancy and the following: Ben, Irven, Roland, H. Ed, George, Elwood, David, and Kenneth. They lived in Wayne County near Hoskins until 1905 when they moved to a farm near Foster for one year. Henry Miller told of herding cattle all summer as a youngster on the Foster bottom land. In 1906 they settled in Section 22 of Walnut Grave Township, Knox County. In 1925 they moved to Witten, South Dakota. Minnie died January 5, 1946, and Henry died April 12, 1951.

Irven and Lillie Hines were married February 24, 1926, and lived here ten years, then on two other places before buying a farm one mile west of the Walnut Store in 1944. They moved to Verdigre in 1957. Irven and Lillie had four children: Dwaine Irven (May 7, 1928 - December 22, 1929); Donald Lee (born June 6, 1930); Marcella Mae (born July 22, 1937), and Virgil Henry (born August 16, 1943. Marcella married Joe L. Forejt (born January 22, 1931) on November 9, 1955, at Verdigre. (See other histories elsewhere). Irven Miller died November 11, 1973.

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