MILLER, Henry

Henry — KOGER, Anna Elizabeth. Anna (daughter of KOGER, John Nicholas and WILLHEIT, Maria Elizabeth) was born 2 Dec 1738; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. MILLER, Anna Barbara was born 10 Jan 1757; died Yes, date unknown.
2. MILLER, Christina was born 10 Aug 1766; died 10 Aug 1841, At Son Samuel's Home.
3. MILLER, Jacob was born 19 Jul 1769, Virginia; died Bef 5 Apr 1861, Virginia; was buried , Elk Run Cemetery, Elkton, Rockinham County Virginia.

Henry — ELIZABETH. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Adam (Mueller) Miller was born at Schersheim, Germany about 1703. The family name was spelled Mueller in Germany. His father lived and grew up in Lamsheim.

Adam came to America in 1720 to Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. He and his wife and an unmarried sister moved to Williamsburg, Virginia in 1724.

In 1726 -1727 he visited the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and settled there with his family at Hawksbill Creek, in present day Page Co. They were the first European settlers in the valley.

In 1733 Adam's name appears on a list of petitioners who were trying to obtain land from Jacob Stover.

Adam was naturalized in 1741. Later the family settled in what would become Rockingham Co.

In 1742 Adam purchased 820 Acres including the Lithia Springs near present day Elkton, Rockingham Co., Virginia, where he built his first cabin. The house still stands.

Adam became the guardian of Michael (Cogar) Koger, his nephew, November 19, 1755, 2 years after Nicholas, Michael's father, was killed by indians.

Adam was a soldier in the French and Indian War, as indicated on a military schedule for 1758, in Hennings Statutes.

Adam was of the Lutheran denomination, and was probably buried at St.. Peters Church, 4 miles north of Elkton.

From the Moravian Diaries (December 3, 1749):
"Towards evening a man from another district, Adam Mueller, passed. I told him that I would like to come to his house and preach there. He asked me if I were sent by God. I answered, yes. He said, if I were sent by God I would be welcome, but he said, there are at present so many kinds of people, that often one does not know where they come from. I requested him to notify his neighbors that I would preach on the 5th, which he did."...

"On December 4th, we left Schaub's house, commending the whole family to God. We traveled through the rain across the South Shenandoah to Adam Mueller, who received us with much love. We stayed over night with him."...

"On December 5th, I preached at Adam Mueller's house on John 7: "Whosoever thirsteth let him come to the water and drink." A number of thirsty souls were present. Especially Adam Mueller took in every word, and after the sermon declared himself well pleased. In the afternoon we traveled a short distance, staying over night with a Swiss. The conversation was very dry and the word of Christ's sufferings found no hearing."

Adam married KOGER, Anna Maria Barbara Germany. Anna (daughter of KOGER, Joss and LOWENBERGER, Anna) was born 1716, Auggen, Loerrach, Baden, Germany; died , Near Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Johann — MARGARETTA, Ann. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Five sons and one daughter of Joss Koger came to America between 1725 and 1738 to found the Koger, Coger, Cogar, and Cowger clans.
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"In 1710, Jos Koger was a Cooper."

This entry, found on page 254 of the book "Der Weinort Auggen", a written history of Auggen, published by the Borough of Auggen, indicates for us the importance that was placed on the "Cooper", the wine cast maker, by the elders of that wine-making village.

This Jos. Koger, the Cooper, or wine-barrel maker (an important position in a wine-making village like Auggen) represented the last of our Koger ancestors to be live his life in his German homeland.

Joss Koger married Maria Catharina Gebhard, daughter of the Pastor of the nearby village of Feldburg, on February 22, 1701. These were troubled times in Europe, and a family's Church Records were often left incomplete as the family moved from village to village to seek sanctuary from the incessant fighting. The records which do yet exist show these children for Maria and Joss: Maria, born December 25, 1701, died May 8, 1703; Nicolaus, born February 21, 1704, died April 4, 1704; Joss, born March 14, 1705; and Bernhard, born November 15, 1706. We must assume that Maria Gebhard Koger died, although the records do not list it, as the records next show Joss Koger marrying Anna Lowenbergen on April 23, 1709. Two of their sons are mentioned in the records; Hans Jacob Koger, born July 24, 1710, and Nicholas Koger, born January 30, 1712.

It is these two brothers who, between 1728 and 1732, came across the Atlantic to America.

For whatever reason, whether due to religious persecution, continuing trouble from the French troops crossing the border, or trouble with the Margrave, the political head of the state of Baden, Jacob and Nicholas Koger left Germany and immigrated to the new land of America.

Joss Koger, their father, died at Auggen on August 23, 1733.

Joss married LOWENBERGER, Anna 23 Apr 1709, Auggen, Loerrach, Baden, Germany. Anna was born 19 Sep 1675; died 23 Jun 1735. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Claus Koger, son of Dietrich, married Maria Kuttler, daughter of Jose Kuttler (who is described in the records as butcher, inn-keeper, and Orphan-judge in Auggen), on November 20, 1665. Maria, who had been born on Mayday of 1646, was nineteen.

Claus and Maria had six children; Dietrich and Joss, twins, born November 8, 1666; Maria, born July 17, 1669; Claus, born August 9, 1671; Joss, born August 8, 1674, and named after his brother who had died an infant on May 18, 1667; and Christoph, born December 10, 1678.

A brief entry on page 41 of the Old Koger Family Book at Auggen states about Claus Koger;

"Born at Eastern (sic) 1637, was butcher, married 20 November 1665 Maria Kuttlerin at Auggen and had six children with her, he died, falling from nut tree, 14 September 1679."

From this, we learn both his occupation, butcher, and his manner of death, in a fall from a tree, at the age of 42.

Dietrich Koger, his father, outlived him, dying nine years later, on November 27, 1688.

From: "THE COGAR FAMILY, A Few Genealogical Notes.

Claus married KUTTLER, Maria 20 Nov 1655. Maria (daughter of KUTTLER, Joss and SCHNEIDER, Anna Elizabeth) was born 1 May 1646, Auggen Baden-Durlach, Germany; died 16 Jun 1719. [Group Sheet]