[or-roots] No Millers in Atlas

[Leslie Chapman]

Thanks Pat;

I am going to have to revisit this story with cousin Brad, his middle name
is his grandfathers given name more or less, in all the Censuses they stick
an extra vowel in it somewhere, I haven't gone back before 1880 yet looking
for them, so may have a clue as to what the basis of Dad's story was, as I
say they are in Lane county, specifically in Saginaw from 1880 to 1920
Census so if Auntie was born up north her mother must have been visiting
kin. I need to talk to brother Dennis I guess, it seems to me like Dad took
him to see "the house" it is actually just off the freeway a mile or so east
of the murder creek exit.

Incidentally if you don't recognize that name, it is because it isn't on the
maps, its actually Scio exit, but is called by that ugly name because so
many people have died in the fog there on the freeway, the state used to
have an early warning system a few years back, but the liability lawyers
told them if someone died while the sign wasn't lit, or someone slowed down
because it was lit appropriately and got rear ended by some idiot the State
would be the go to "deep pocket" victim in any lawsuits so they quit using
it.

OK off the sop box, thanks again for looking, I just love these little
mysteries.

Les C

Subject: RE: [or-roots] 1878 Linn Marion Co atlas


Les

Well, actually, nothing.

There is a "Millers' Station. A small village on the railroad, five miles
north of Albany. It possesses
one store which does a lucrative business with the surrounding country.
There are two warehouses for grain
with a capacity of 60,000 bushels. It serves as a shipping point for the
district."

There also, as an aside, is a "Miller Cemetery" north of Silverton, where
almost all of my family is
buried, near Scotts Mill. There were Millers early in the Mt.
Angel/Silverton part of Marion County. (i.e.
1850s or so) Somewhere I have something on them, but it is covered by three
feet of paper!

If this is a possibility, I can at least give you a reference.

Pat