Individual Details

There is a very old stone in the Eagle Village Cemetery, Boone Co IN.  It appears to perhaps be an old military marker - it has no dates, just "S. S. Miller, Co. F, 86th IND INF."
He was apparently in the Civil War - I did find the same information on Ancestry, except his name was given as Sylvanus S. Miller.
In the Indiana Marriage Collection - 1800-1941 on Ancestry: 
Sylvenas S. Miller, married Nancy E. Taylor, 20 Jul 1855, Boone Co, IN
Sylvanus S. Miller married Anna Ayres, 5 May 1868, Marion Co.  [an accompanying note says he was age 10, or born about 1868 - surely an error!]

Not this Sylvanus:
The only Sylvanus Miller I've been able to find in census records after 1860 is a Sylvanus in Harrioson Twp, Boone Co, in 1880 - he was age 36 and born in IN -says his father born in VA and his wife was a Mary C., age 34.  So if this is the right Sylvanus, he may have married still another time. The children were John L. 9, Annie V. 6, Thomas F. 4,and Claudus age 1.  However, FindAGrave suggests this is a different Sylvanus Miller, born 1844 in Harrison Co IN and married Mary C. Wiseman. An obituary states he was the son of Valentine and Sarah Hays Miller.


I could not find any similar name in 1870.

Birth	1835	Indiana
Death	Bef 1887

Father	Thomas Putnam Miller (1812 - 1891)
Mother	Eliza Meek (1813 - 1838)
Sibling	William M. Miller (1833 - 1887)
Sibling	James Miller ( - 1887)