The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical and genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley families from 1729-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost and Clarence Earl Frost

Call Number: R929.2 P375

190 - MARGARET ANN PEFFLEY (Daughter. of No. 189) married in Pettis Co. Mo., at the home of her mother, Sept. 25th, 1875, DANIEL WHITEFIELD MILLER, born near Lileton, Green County, Kentucky, Feb. 27th, 1851, died at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Jan. 8th, 1935 (Son of JOSEPH MILLER and SUSANNAH KELLEY THOMAS). Both are buried in the Pines Cemetery, Opportunity, Wash.

Joseph Miller was born Feb. 18th, 1797, died in Benton Co., Mo., Mar. 20th, 1870. Susannah Kelley was born in Barren Co., Ky., Nov. 19th, 1809, died May 2nd, 1870, Benton Co., Mo. Susannah was the daughter of Giles Kelley and Martha DeJarnette. Martha was a daughter of DANIEL DEJARNETTE and JUDITH JOHNSON. (See No.209). Martha Ford DeJarnette was born in Cumberland Parish, Luenenburg Co., Va., June 24th, 1774, died 1816 in Barren Co., Ky.

Anna received her education in the country schools of Putnam Co., Ind. She and her brother Frank DeJarnette were the champion spellers of the county. A shopping trip to Greencastle was a great adventure in those days. She was an expert seamstress and made up beautifully the expensive cotton prints of those days. She was a member of the Christian Church all her life and one of its faithful, active workers. She was a woman of boundless energy and she loved to have many people about her. Her home was always the popular gathering place in the community.

When they were married Daniel and Anna went to live with her widowed mother, moving with her, after the birth of their first child, to Dade Co., Mo., in 1876. Here Daniel built a house on Anna's forty acres and improved it. In 1881 they sold this land and bought the "Colgrove Place" one and one half miles west of Lincoln, Benton Co., Mo., where they lived until 1884, when they went to Sedalia for a short time. After the birth of their daughter MYRTLE MILLER, they took the train to Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, arriving there May 7th, 1884. They located at Deep Creek, fifteen miles west of Spokane Falls, where they ran a restaurant for two years. Their patrons were mostly people going through by stage-coach to the Big Bend country. During the next four years Daniel farmed and did a great deal of carpentry work in Spokane during the boom days after the great fire.

In 1891 they moved to the Big Bend country where Daniel preempted 160 acres of bunch grass land, ten miles south of Wilbur, Wash. After six years of the ups and downs of wheat raising with drought, low prices, and squirrels to fight, they moved to a homestead eighteen miles northwest of Spokane on the banks of the Spokane River where they raised fruit. After fourteen years this farm was sold to the Washington Water Power Co., and is partly submerged by Long Lake. The family moved to Spokane where the children had been attending public and High School. All were graduated from the Lewis and Clark High School.

Issue:

1 - MAUD MILLER, b. 6-19-1876, Pettis Co., Mo.
2 - EARL MILLER, b. 4-17-1878, Dade Co., Mo. near Arcola.
3 - MAY MILLER, b. 3-10-1880, near Arcola.
4 - MYRTLE MILLER, b. Sedalia, Pettis Co., Mo. 3-25-1884.
5 - LESLIE MILLER, b. 8-7-1888, Deep Creek, Wn., d. 5-22- 1936, Los Angeles, Calif.
6 - VIVA MILLER, b. 3-5-1892, near Wilbur, Wash., d. 3-25- 1897. Buried in the Pines Cemetery, Opportunity, Wash.