Alexander Miller was born May 2, 1822 in Buchylvia, Scotland. He married Jean Wilson and they were parents of 10 children. They came to America in 1870 by steamship to New York. They boarded a train for Cedar Rapids, Iowa and then to an uncle’s home near Scotch Grove in Benton County. They remained there for several years and then in 1879 their son, William, came to Antelope County, Nebraska and staked out a homestead in Frenchtown. He returned to Iowa and the family came to Nebraska in 1880, taking four homesteads. With ten or twelve other Scottish families, they worked together building frame houses for each family and with two years built the Elkhorn Valley Church. William was one of the first businessmen in Orchard, Nebraska, operating an implement and hardware store. The other children were: John, Anna, James, Alexander, Jane, Ellen, Agnes, Margaret, and Walter. Anna married Sam Lichty. Jane married Harmon Lichty, Ellen married James Napier, Agnes married John Napier, Margaret married Elbert Odreal and Walter married Laura Davis. Walter was a carpenter and they lived in Ewing, Nebraska until 1926 when they moved to Plainview, Nebraska. They had two children, Mamie who married Roy West and Kenneth who married Lucy Voorhies.
Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in Dec 2007