ELIJAH MILES. Of the many prominent and esteemed citizens of Buffalo township, the name of this family ranks among the first. Elijah Miles was a son of Elijah Miles, who was born in the State of Virginia in 1765, and in his later years removed to Canton township, Washington Co., Penn. He died August 27, 1834, in Ohio, on his farm (where he was settling up his business affairs), honored by all who knew him. His wife and four children survived him at the date of his death. John died in 1891, in Marietta, Ohio, at the age of eighty-five years; Mary died January 20, 1837, in the twenty-eighth year of her age; Nancy died April 13, 1837, in the twenty-sixth year of her age. Their mother, Elizabeth, died at the age of sixty years.
Elijah Miles, our subject, the only surviving one of the four children, was born in Canton township, Washington Co., Penn. He moved to Keokuk county, Iowa, in 1855, and came back to Buffalo township, Washington Co., Penn., in 1856, where he permanently settled. Elijah Miles was married in 1862 to Caroline, daughter of Lewis Snyder, and the children born to this union were Mary, wife of Frank M. Caffey, of Buffalo township, Elizabeth and John.
Lewis Snyder, father of Mrs. Caroline Miles, was born in 1801 in Germany. He was well educated, and became a soldier in the German army. He was married to Catherine Mary Cook, and the children born to them were Caroline, who was born October 6, 1835, in Germany, and came with her parents to America; and Charles, George, Louisa, Lewis, William, Catherine and Frank, born in America, the last named being now deceased, the only one in the Snyder family that has been taken away. The living children of this family are all residents of Washington county, Penn. In 1844 Mr. Snyder came to America with his family, and first settled on a farm in Franklin township, Washington Co., Penn., where he made his permanent home.
Text taken from page 1213 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).Transcribed February 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project.
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