Sarah Ann Miller

F, (8 June 1827 - 6 June 1917)
     Sarah Ann Miller was born on 8 June 1827.1 She was the daughter of Jacob Frederick Miller and Susannah Updegraff. Sarah Ann Miller married, at age 17, John Von Roth, age 23 on Sunday, 14 July 1844 by the Reverend P. Lantz.2 Sarah Ann Miller died on 6 June 1917 at Salladasburg, Mifflin Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, at age 89 years, 11 months and 29 days.1 She was buried on 9 June 1917 in the Anthony Baptist Church Cemetery, located in Anthony Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.1
     She and John Von Roth appeared on the census of 30 July 1850 at Mifflin Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Sarah Ann Miller and John Von Roth appeared on the census of 4 September 1860 at Mifflin Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Sarah Ann Miller and George Abonis appeared on the census of 26 August 1870 at Mifflin Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Sarah Ann Miller and George Abonis appeared on the census of 14 June 1880 at Mifflin Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The following is from a newspaper clipping in the back of Abraham Stabler's Family Bible:

Sarah Ann Rhote, widow of John Rhote, died Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Abraham Stabler, of Salladasburg. She was 90 years old and left two daughters and one son. She was a member of Calvary Baptist church of this city. The funeral took place at the home of her daughter at Salladasburg yesterday morning.

Second newspaper clipping:

Sarah Ann, widow of John Rhote, died Wednesday at 12 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Abraham Stabler, at Salladasburg. If she had lived two days longer she would have been 90 years old. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Abraham Stabler and Mrs. William Steinbacher, and one son, J. H., of this city. Fourteen grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren, a brother, Abram Miller, Hepburnville, and a sister, Miss Susan Miller, of Williamsport, also survive. She had been a member of the Baptist Church for 75 years, being a member of the Calvary church, this city, at the time of her death. The funeral will take place from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Abram Stabler, at Salladasburg, on Saturday, at 10 o'clock. Interment in Anthony Cemetery.

Children of Sarah Ann Miller and John Von Roth

Last Edited=17 Nov 2009

Citations

  1. [S2] Family records from Abraham Stabler Family Bible, The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues, with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Psalms and Revised New Testament (Philadelphia [Pennsylvania]: National Publishing Company, 1885); original owned in 2005 by Daniel Stabler, (Cogan Station, Pennsylvania). This Bible originally belonged to Abraham Stabler (1845-1923) being handed down on his death to his son Pierce Albert Stabler (1871-1941) and remained in the Stabler household until his death. At this time his son Frederick Ulmer Stabler (1907-2005) owned the Bible until the time of his death at which time it passed to his son Daniel Leroy Stabler.
  2. [S14] John F Meginness, History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (Baltimore, Maryland: prepared by Lycoming Historical Society; Gateway Press, Inc., 1990 reprint of 1892 original), p. 1143.