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- NOTE: Passenger record shows Max as being 11, when they arrived in 1884, which would generate a birthyear of 1872-3. The 1910 census and the 1915 South Dakota State Census indicate a birthyear of 1871. Family members cited his birthdate as 12 May 1871.
"Max Miller came to the United States when he was nine years old. He had come with his mother. His father had come to the U.S. a couple years earlier.
"Max and Ida lived west of Wall Lake until 1907 when they bought a farm just east of Ida's parents.(George and Augusta Leubecher). Augusta was extremely happy now that she could talk to her eldest daughter daily by telephone.
"Max left Lincoln County shortly after his wife's death and moved to Minnehaha County in the Humboldt and then Wall Lake area.
"Elsie married Al Stroebel and lived in Mankato, MN; Hazel married George Lowell and lives in Sioux Falls; Clifford married Nell Voelsch and farmed west of Sioux Falls in the Wall Lake area until his death in 1976."
"For two years [after Ida's death] Dad worked in Humboldt in a blacksmith's shop there and then he went back to farming again. When he went back to farming he hired a housekeeper and then he took Cliff and I. We lived 17 miles west of town at that time. [this is before he bought Cliff's place] I think the place he farmed had been homesteaded by his Dad. I must have been about 9 yrs. old when he bought the farm where Cliff lived. When my mother was killed, they were farming about a mile and a half east of Herman’s. This is where Ida was killed."
"The time that I was about 9-10 years old, the housekeeper we had used to spend her summers with her sister. She had a little boy who was 8 months old when she came to live with us. His name was Bill Carrie. He lived with us off and on for fifteen sixteen years. He was like a brother to Cliff and I. We were about the only family he ever knew."
"[After Ida's death] he sold out that fall sold everything that fall. This was 1909. He never wanted to move there in the first place since it was only a half a mile from Grandma Leubechers. "--Interview with Hazel Lowell, August 1984
"You know, my dad and his dad came from Sioux Falls in the winter time in the sleigh. It was blizzarding so hard, it was cold and nasty, and the animals were following the trail and they got off the trail somewhere and couldn't see anything. And then my dad said, turn around, we just passed Lowell's I seen the light. George's grandma always put a light in the window when they were up and around so if anybody was out they would know there was a house there. So they turned around and went back to Grandma Lowell's and spent the night. This was before Max was even married. "
"The Miller's and the Leubecher's knew each other in Germany."
Rex and Ruby Leubecher wrote a short biography of Max and Ida Miller Family that appeared in a local publication whose title and date are unknown:
“Max Miller (1871-1963) was born in Germany and came to the United States when he was nine years old. In 1899 he married Ida Leubecher (1872-1909) who was also born in Germany and arrived in this country when she was 11 or 12 years old.
“Max and Ida lived west of Wall Lake until 1907 when they bought a farm just east of Ida’s parents (George and Augusta Leubecher). Augusta was extremely happy now that she could talk to her eldest daughter daily by telephone. That pleasure was short-lived as just two years later (1909) Ida was killed by lightning as she was upstairs tucking her three small children into an iron bed. Survivors were husband, Max, and children Elsie, Clifford, and Hazel. Max left Lincoln County shortly after his wife’s death and moved to Minnehaha County in the Humboldt and then Wall Lake area.
“Elsie married Al Stroebel and lives at Mankato, Minn.; Hazel married George Lowell and lives in Sioux Falls; Clifford married Nell Voelsch and farmed west of Sioux Falls in the Wall Lake area until his death in 1976.”
1910 U.S. Federal Census: SD: Minnehaha, Humboldt: p. 12b:
Miller, Max, head, 39, widowed, born in Germany, father and mother born in Germany, laborer, implement shop.
1915 South Dakota State Census:
Name: Max Miller
Age: 44
Birth Year: 1871
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Place: Germany
Nationality: Widowed
Marriage Year: 1900
Arrival Year in Country: 1883
Arrival Year in State: 1883
Arrival State: South Dakota
Arrival Country: USA
Religion: Methodist Episcopal
Father's Birth Place: Germany
Mother's Birth Place: Germany
Residence in 1915: South Dakota, United States
1920 U.S. Federal Census, SD, Minnehaha, Wall Lake Township:
Miller, Max, Head of household, owns his property, age 47, widowed, came to the U.S. in 1882, naturalized citizen in 1885
Elsie, daughter, age 18
Clifford, son, age 16
Hazel, daughter, age 15
Cary, Rose, housekeeper, 32, widow
In the 1930 census, Max is living with his son, Clifford.
Legal records for the settlement of the estate of Max’s father lists Max as being 32 in 1907, making his birthdate being abt. 1875.
No SSDI record found under Max Miller, Mueller, Muller or Maximillian Miller.
From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Monday, Dec. 16, 1963:
“Max Miller
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Miller Funeral Home for Max Miller, 92, of 3601 S.. Norton Ave., who died Saturday in Sioux Falls.
He was born in Germany May 12, 1871. He came to Parker in 1883. He married Ida Leubecher November 1899. He farmed in the Humboldt and Hartford areas until 1913.
He is survived by a son, Clifford Miller, Hartford; two daughters, Mrs. George Lowell, Sioux Falls, and Mrs. Albert Strobel, Mankato, Minn., two sisters, Mrs. Hulda Kieni, Humboldt; and Mrs. Earl Collins, Phoenix, Ariz.”
Death Certificate
Name: Max Miller
Armed Forces: No
Date of Death: 12/15/1963
Date of Birth: 05/12/1871
Age: 92 years
Place of Death: 3601 S. Norton Ave. Sioux Falls, Minnehaha South Dakota
Disposition Information:
Method: Burial
Cemetery: Mt. Pleasant
Location: Sioux Falls South Dakota
Demographic information:
Residence: 3601 S. Norton Ave. Sioux Falls Minnehaha South Dakota
Marital Status: Widowed
Place of Birth: Germany
Surviving Spouse’s Name, if wife Maiden Name: Ida Leubecher Miller
Father’s Name: Adolph Miller
Mother’s name prior to first marriage: Unknown
Information Information:
Informant’s Name: Clifford Miller
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Cause of Death Part I: Coronary Occlusion, 8 hours; Atherosclerosis (Coronary) cause unknown, 25 years.
Part II: Gen. Arteriosclerosis, , , [1, 2, 3]
Max Miller Property
100 North 49W Springdale Twp., Lincoln Cty
Section 17 NE Quarter - west half
NW Quarter - east half
Roger Lowell indicated that Max Miller had heart problems and had an enlarge heart when Rog was in high school. Rog said that Max was in the hospital for a month or so. After school, Rog went to the hospital and sat with him for 2-3 hrs. every day so that his mother, Hazel, could go home and fix dinner.
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