Jackson County OR Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Benjamin F April 15, 1900
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Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 20 Apr 1900, City Happenings, p. 7, c. 4
Benj. F. Miller, an old pioneer of Jackson county, died at his home near Gold 
Hill, on Sunday, April 15, 1900, after a brief illness with measles, aged 
sixty-eight years. Mr. Miller had been a resident of Jackson county since 
1855, and leaves many relatives and friends in this section to mourn his 
death. The interment took place in the Sams Valley cemetery Tuesday, April 
17th.

Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 11 May 1900, p. 5, c. 2-3: In Memory of B. F. 
Miller. Benjamin F. Miller was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, on July 31, 
1832, and died April 15, 1900, at his home on Galls creek, Jackson county, 
where he was engaged in mining. Mr. Miller, like all ambitious young men, 
wanted to see a newer country, and left the home of his youth at the age of 
twenty years going to Illinois, where he spent two years; then with a desire 
to seek the gold fields of the Pacific slope, he crossed the plains in 1854 
with Capt. John Sutton, and engaged in mining at Sterlingville, Jackson 
county, in the winter and spring of 1855. 

On May 14, 1857, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Margaret J. Sutton, 
daughter of Capt. John Sutton. During all the years of hardship and toil 
incident to the life of an early pioneer and the mingling with the rougher 
element of the world, he never forgot his manhood nor the principles instilled 
in him from youth by his Christian parents. In the year 1865 he was converted 
to the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ and united with the M. E. Church, of 
which he was a consistent and conscientious member until his death. It can be 
truly said of him that he died as he had lived, in the full belief of a 
happier life beyond this vale of tears. He has gone home to meet father, 
mother, sisters and children who have gone before, and by his death the 
community has lost an honest and upright citizen, loved and respected by all 
who knew him.

Mr. Miller leaves to mourn his demise a wife, two daughters, Mrs. B. W. Doan 
of Curry County, and Miss Maggie Miller, who was at home with her parents, and 
one son, J. T. Miller of Sardine creek. He also leaves two brothers and three 
sisters, E. H. Miller of Los Angeles, Calif., C. E. Miller, of this county, 
Mrs. Mary J. Risley of Clinton County, Iowa, Mrs. Almira Hopkins, of Powers 
County, Colorado, and Mrs. Eva M. Newton, of Sardine creek, this county. While 
they mourn the loss of a husband, a father, a brother, they feel that their 
loss is his gain, that God doeth all things well.

We shall now with other [-?-] blessed comfort / When this mortal life is 
o’er. / We shall know our friends departed / Kindred spirits gone before. / In 
the thrill of holy transport, / Who will be the first to share? / First to bid 
us kindly welcome / We shall know each other there .  --W. H. S.

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