Stephen Miller was born 19 April 1810 in Muhlenberg County, KY. On 8 Sept 1831 he married Elizabeth Drake in Muhlenberg County. Elizabeth was also a native of Kentucky, having been born about 1813. Her father, Samuel W. Drake, was born in New York State.

Stephen Miller was a farmer, like his father. He bought from some of his brothers and sisters on 17 Oct 1855 their interest in 50 acres of the 100 acres his father had owned on Drake's Creek. His brother, 3acob, owned the other 50 acres. Stephen had lived in Ohio County, KY for some time before that. He is shown on the 1840 census in Ohio County.

He had 10 children, as follows:

By Elizabeth Drake, his first wife:
 1. Eliza Jane      b. 4 July 1832, m. Richard Fulkerson
 2. Mary Elizabeth b.12 3une 1833, m. William Berryman
 3. 3ohn b. 1 Sept 1834, m. Nancy Sisk, I Apr 1858  d. 22 Feb 1881
 4. Samuel D. b. 2 Oct 1835, m. Rebecca Landrum
 5. Sarah Ann b. 30 Dec 1838
 6. Louiza b. 17 Apr 1842, m. John W. Welch, d.1913
 7. Alfred Taylor b. 11 Oct 1846, m. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth  Smith
 8. William Garrett b. 18 Oct 1848, m. Louiza. Ross,14 Oct 1874, d. 19 July 1898
            BY Hester King, his second wife:
 9. Robert A. b. 1865, m. Cora E. Clark, d. 1921
10. Benjamin b. 1867, m. Sarah Slades, d. 1930

Elizabeth Drake Miller died 6 Dec 1853 according to the record in the old Miller family Bible now in possession of William Garrett Miller, a great, great grandson of Stephen Miller. I am glad I was able to make copies of the family record pages. Until then [ had not known when Elizabeth died. I am still not sure where she died, since, in 1850 Stephen was living in Ohio County. She died in 1853 and it was in 1855 he bought the 50 acres of the old Miller home place. Did she die in Ohio County or Hopkins County? I feel hers might well be one of the unmarked graves near where Frederick and Mary Miller were buried on the old home place.

On the census of 1860 for Hopkins County, Stephen Miller is shown with his two younger sons, Alfred, 13, and William Garrett, 12, Elizabeth Hawkins (occupation-domestic), and her son, Timothy.  On 26 April 1863 Stephen Miller married a second wife, Hester King, in Christian County, KY. His sons, Robert and Benjamin, were by her. I do not know when she died or where she is buried. She, too, may be in one of the unmarked graves on the old Miller homeplace, since there are no records of her burial in Hopkins County cemeteries.

On 13 December 1869 Stephen Married married a third wife, Mrs. Nancy (Heltsey) Wilson, widow of 3ames Wilson, In Hopkins County. He was 59 and she was 57 years old. She died 3 Nov 1875 and Stephen died only 18 days later, 21 Nov 1875. They are buried together in Prospect Cemetery, near Dalton, KY. On Nancy's tombstone is written: "Nancy--wife of James Wilson and Stephen Miller."

As mentioned In the article on Frederick Miller, there still stands today the white, wooden, two-storey house on the property Stephen Miller owned, and which undoubtedly Stephen built. A subsequent owner, C. A. Tinsley, who bought it in 1967, was told it was about 100 years old. A grand-daughter of Stephen Miller remembered being in the house when Benjamin Miller was a baby. He was born in 1867. That would make the time right. Benjamin was Stephen’s second child by his second wife, Hester King. The original building had an upstairs porch balcony, which is not there now. It was there as late as 1901, as shown in a picture following the article on William Garrett Miller, Stephen’s son.

Elizabeth Drake was the daughter of Samuel W. Drake, who was born about 1777 in New York State. He came, probably with his parents, to Kentucky and was married 16 Feb 1801 in Christian County, to Jane Waters, daughter of Thomas Waters.

Early in my research I had heard from a descendant of Samuel Drake that he had twenty-one children and raised nineteen of them. Later, through Information from another descendant, and my own research, I was able to learn the names of all nineteen. There were ten girls and nine boys.

It was his daughter, Margaret E. Drake, who married William E. Ross and became the mother of Louiza A. Ross, who married William Garrett Miller, the son of Margaret's sister, Elizabeth and our Stephen Miller. Thus it can be seen that there were double first cousins in the Miller and Drake families.

Samuel Drake was widowed 8 3an 1849. His wife, Jane, was buried in New Hope Cemetery near Moorman in Muhlenberg County. Some of his children continued in his household for a while, but when all were gone, in July, 1850, he made an arrangement with his daughter, Margaret, for his continued care. He deeded her some land for 'consideration of her support and comfortable maintenance the remainder of his life." He died before July, 1863, for on that date a court order appointed Abraham Bilbro, husband of his daughter, Cynthia Ann, as administrator of his estate.