Governor Stephen Decatur MILLER, Sr.^[1]

1787 - 1838  (50 years)

• Name	Stephen Decatur MILLER  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Prefix	Governor
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	8 May 1787	Waxhaw settlement, Lancaster DIstrict, South Carolina   [2, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Education	graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1808
  HIST	Around 1834, he sold some of his property in South Carolina and moved to Mississippi where he owned cotton plantations. According to source- he married (2) Mary Boykins- both the daughters of Burwell Boykin and his second wife, Mary Whitaker. One was born in 1804 and died in 1835 and were married in 1821.  [4]
  Occupation	U.S. Senator (1830), Governor (1828-30 as a Jeffersonian Republication), was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Sumterville, South Carolina in 1811  [2, 4, 7]
  _UID	6E09385602074E2D825963A2DC7451B6C0FA
  Death	8 Mar 1838	Raymond, Hinds County, Mississippi   [2, 4, 6]
  Person ID	I3612	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2015

  
  

  Father	Charles “Jesse” MILLER, II,   b. 1765   d. Aft 1815 (Age > 51 years)
  Mother	Margaret Mary/Moore WHITE,   b. 1768
  _UID	085FB8799CF544C7AD93D4B0D3CABDFF51BC
  _UID	085FB8799CF544C7AD93D4B0D3CABDFF51BC
  Family ID	F1325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth DICK   d. 1819
  Marriage	1814  [6]
  _UID	6B36596DCE404C628F4223CE1CABEED06A4E
  _UID	6B36596DCE404C628F4223CE1CABEED06A4E
  Children	1. Elias Dick MILLER,   b. 1815   d. 1832, a sophomore at South Carolina College (Age 17 years)   2. John Richardson MILLER   d. died young   3. William Smith MILLER   d. died young
  Family ID	F46661	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2015

  
  

  Family 2	Mary BOYKIN,   b. 1804   d. Feb 1885 (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	9 May 1821  [4]
  _UID	580D4B1E093B452EBE384132BCA8B0DADC42
  _UID	580D4B1E093B452EBE384132BCA8B0DADC42
  Children	1. Mary Boykin MILLER,   b. 31 Mar 1823, Boykin Plantation, Mount Pleasant, Camden area, South Carolina d. 22 Nov 1886 (Age 63 years)   2. Katharine Boykin MILLER,   b. 24 May 1827, Plane Hill Plantation, Camden area, South Carolina d. 17 Apr 1876 (Age 48 years)   3. Stephen Decatur MILLER, Jr.,   b. 1825, Plane Hill Plantation, Camden area, South Carolina   4. Sarah Amelia MILLER,   b. 1831, Plane Hill Plantation, Camden area, South Carolina
  Family ID	F6496	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2003

  
  

• Notes

  a U. S. Representative and a Senator from South Carolina, elected to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Mayrant; was reelected to the Fifteenth Congress and served from January 2, 1817, to March 3, 1819; resumed the practice of his profession; member, State senate 1822-1828; Governor of South Carolina 1828-1830; elected as a Nullifier to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1831, until March 2, 1833, when he resigned due to ill health; delegate to the South Carolina nullification conventions in 1832 and 1833; engaged in cotton planting in Mississippi in 1835 [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S11] Hugh Charles Haynsworth, (Osteen Publishing Company, Sumter, SC). [S602] (Somerset Publishers, Inc.), page 229. [S730] Admiral Cato D. Glover, U. S. Navy Retired, page 34. [S2533] Helen Milliken, (Heritage Information Fund Press, PO Box 1984, Spartanburg, SC 29304). [S44] page 8. [S3567] Compiled by Joseph G. Wardlaw, (Yorkville, South Carolina, Printed at The Enquirer Office 1910), page 96. [S9] Cassie Nichols, page 282.