Pleasant M. Miller was born 1780. He died 26 Apr 1849 in, Trenton Co, Gibson, Tennessee. Pleasant married Mary Louisa Blount on 11 Apr 1801 in Knox, Tennessee
Children of Pleasant M. Miller and Mary Louisa Blount:
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The Biography of Pleasant Moorman Miller, 1773-1849
PLEASANT MOORMAN MILLER was born at Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia, in 1773; son of John and Mary (Moorman) Johnson Miller; exact date of birth and extent of schooling not stated; studied law under judge Archibald Stewart of Staunton, Virginia. Moved to Rogersville, Hawkins County Tennessee, 1796, thence to Knoxville, Knox County, in 1800. Married, in April, 1801, to Mary Louisa Blount, daughter of Governor William and Mary (Grainger) Blount of Knoxville; children-Barbara, Malvina Lowery, Albert S., William Blount, Susan Lynch, and six whose names are not found. Practiced law successfully at Knoxville. Elected as one of the commissioners governing Knoxville, 1801 and again in 1802; elected to House of Representatives, 11th Congress, serving from March 4~ 1809, to March 3, 1811. Served in the House, 9th Tennessee General Assembly, 1 st Sess., September 16, to November 21, 1811, resigning to enlist for War of 1812; again elected to House, 12th, 13th, and 14th General Assemblies, 1817-1823; representing Knox County in all Assemblies. Moved, c.1824, to Madison County, and settled with family upon farm, “Holly Hill” near Jackson; practiced law giving much time to land litigation and “amassed a huge estate.”
Elected chancellor of newly created Chancery Division serving from 1836 to 1837. Around 1847, sold “Holly Hill” farm and moved to a farm which be owned in Gibson County some six miles from Trenton. In War of 1812; enlisted December 1, 1812, as private in Captain Walker’s Company, under Colonel John Williams for service in first Seminole War; enlisted again January 10, 1814, for campaign against Creek Indians, private in Captain Yarnell’s Company, East Tennessee Drafted Militia; transferred to Captain Gibb’s Company January 13, 1814; transferred again to Captain Duncan’s Company April 27, 1814; transferred finally September 20, 1814, to Captain Conway’s Company in East Tennessee Mounted Gunmen. Member Lodge No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons; Deputy Grand Master, 1809-11. Died at Trenton April 26, 1849; buried at that place. Father of William Blount Miller, sometime member Tennessee General Assembly.
Sources: Biographical Directory of American Congress, Rothrock, French
Broad-Holston Country, 456-57; Williams, Historic Madison, 63-65; Miller,
Official Manuel, 185; information supplied by Mrs. Albert Ewing, genealogist,
Nashville; East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications, No. 17, p.
39; Tennessee Historical Quarterly, VIII, 271; Armstrong, Notable Southern
Families, 1, 36; Hale and Merritt, Tennessee and Tennesseans, 726; Caldwell,
Bench and Bar of Tennessee, 63; Goodspeed, History of Knox County, 385;
War of 1812 file in Tennessee Archives.
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Biographical Dictionary of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume I, 1796-1861
The Tennessee Historical Commission, Nashville, 1975. pp. 519-520.
PLEASANT MOORMAN MILLER, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Lynchburg, Campbell County, Va.; moved to Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tenn., in 1796, and thence to Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., in 1800; one of the commissioners for the government of Knoxville in 1801 and 1802; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); moved to west Tennessee about 1824, and was chancellor of that division in 1836 and 1837; died in 1849; interment in Trenton, Gibson County, Tennessee.
Bibliography
Biographical Dictionary of the American Congress, 1774-1971, Washington,
D. C., Government Printing Office, 1971.