Mary Elizabeth ROWLAND

  General Notes:

Document: The license for Mary Elizabeth "Minnie" Rowland and David Alfred Miller verifies their marriage on February 21, 1882, attested to by Edmund Forney, the minister who performed the ceremony.

A long way from Washington County, Maryland--where he was born--David Alfred Miller worked on the farm of Minnie's parents in Ogle County, Illinois, when the 1880 census was taken and where he and Minnie married in 1882.

Something I have always enjoyed about trying to document an individual for every Federal census in his or her lifetime is seeing how two people, such as David and Minnie, came together. Sometimes both individuals arrived in a specific county from different distant locations, met, then married, spending the remainder of their lives in that same area or, as a married couple, moving on to a different distant locale.

From DeeAnna Allum Granston


1858 BIRTH of Mary Elizabeth Rowland ("Minnie")

1860 CENSUS, Illinois, Ogle County, Pine Creek Township, P. O. Polo ("Mary," age 2, with parents) ("Roland" in some census indexes)

1870 CENSUS, Illinois, Ogle County, Pine Creek Township, P. O. Dixon, Woosung & Polo ("Mary E.," age 11, with parents) ("Roland" in some census indexes)

1880 CENSUS, Illinois, Ogle County, Pine Creek Township ("Mary E.," age 21, with parents) (In the Rowland household is David A. Miller, age 25, born Maryland, "Works on farm"; in 1882, Mary Elizabeth "Minnie" Rowland would marry David A. Miller)

1882 MARRIAGE of Mary Elizabeth "Minnie" Rowland and David Alfred Miller on February 21 in Ogle County, Illinois at the home of the bride's parents by Rev. Edmund Forney


See "David Alfred Miller" for additional information

Mary married David Alfred MILLER on February 21, 1882 in Ogle County, Illinois. (David Alfred MILLER was born on August 29, 1855 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland and died in June 1908 in Kidder, Caldwell County, Missouri.)