MILLER, John Jacob

The Weekly Arizona Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Friday Evening, October 12, 1877, page 2, column 2 Death 0f Uncle John Miller All the old settlers of Yavapai County are acquainted, more or less, with the history of the man whose name heads this sketch, and who died at Miller's ranch on the 19th inst., of paralysis, with which he had been afflicted for several months. Mr. Miller, with his two sons, Jacob and Samuel C. came here with the Walker party in 1863, and after passing through much hardship and many hair breadth escapes from Indian hostilities, including the celebrated siege at Burnt Ranch, where the old gentlemen and on other white man successfully defended themselves for several hours against a large band of Apaches, he emigrated to Oregon in 1866 where he remained until he returned to Prescott and took up his residence with his son where he remained until his death. Mr. Miller was born near the close of the eighteenth century, viz., in 1799 and has lived through more than three quarters of the 19th century having taken part in the settlement of several new states and territories and lead quite an eventful frontier life, in all the relations of which he has ever maintained the reputation of a man of the strictest integrity. Transcriber's note: Mr. Miller is buried at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona.