Nicholaus lived in Ober-Seeman, Germany. Zimmerman (Carpenter). More information about Ober-Seemen, including pictures, maps, and history is available (in German) on their website. More information about the evangelical church in Ober-Seemen and in other nearby communities of the Schotten region can be found at the Dekanates Schotten (also in German).
Georg was born in Ober-Seeman on 19 January 1738. He married Anna Margaretha Boh in Ober-Seeman on 13 February 1761. Anna was born 26 June 1738 and died 9 October 1805. They had 8 children. Georg died of cancer on 6 December 1808.
Christina was born in Ober-Seeman on 8 May 1768 and was baptised 12 May 1768. She never married and the father of her son, Johannes, is unknown. She died of liver illness on the morning of 23 May 1794.
Johannes was born in Ober-Seeman on 20 July 1791 and was baptised 22 July 1791. Since he was less than 3 years old at the time of his mother's death he possibly went to live with his godfather and uncle, Johannes Müller (1777), from whom he learned the trade of Blacksmith. Johannes married Katharina Haas in Ober-Seeman on 17 April 1818. They had 8 children. Katharina was born in Ober-Seeman on 15 January 1797 and died in Ober-Seeman on 17 January 1863. Johann died in Ober-Seeman on 6 December 1863.
Johann was born 21 February 1822 in Ober-Seemen and was baptised 24 February 1822. Blacksmith. He married Maria Bach, daughter of Kaspar and Anna Bach, on 2 August 1845. They had 8 children. He came alone to America in the about 1855, and his wife and children came to join him in 1857. They settled in Heidelberg Township, York County, Pennsylvania. He died 24 February 1866 in York County, Pennsylvania and was buried in St. Mathew's Church, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania.
George was born 2 July 1853 in Ober-Seemen, Germany. He married Anna Bowersox Bringman and they had 6 children. He died 25 February 1929 in York County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Spring Grove, York County, Pennsylvania.
Esther was born 4 August 1905 in Spring Grove, York County, Pennsylvania. Music teacher (piano). Attended Marion College for Women, Marion, Virginia (1923-24) and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD (1925-1927). She married Alton Luther Geesey on 6 September 1930. They were married by Pastor Albert Oswald Mullen at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Spring Grove, York County. They moved to Hagerstown, Maryland in 1931 where they raised their 2 sons. Esther died 13 August 1998 at the National Lutheran Home, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland and was buried 19 Aug 1998 in Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland.
Acknowledgement: Much of the Müller/Miller information comes from research conducted by Thomas Hench. The Müller information mostly comes from an old church chronicle in the village of Ober-Seemen, Germany. The book dates back to end of Thirty Years' War in 1648. Prior records had been destroyed in the war.