Priscilla "Lilla" Miller

Family Search ID M2JN-4LG.

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Priscilla is said to have been taken by the Shawnee as a girl in Virginia, perhaps in 1778, and to have lived with them until about 1786.

A death record for her son George Washington Miller gives her birthplace as ‘Green Brier.’ According to Wikipedia, Greenbrier County, West Virginia was formed in 1778 from Botetourt and Montgomery counties in Virginia.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219989317/priscilla-miller

GEDCOM Note

A legend of Priscilla abtes, as told by descendants of Priscilla's daughter Elizabeth, and is recorded in the book " Down Through the Stopplebein, Stufflebeam Years" by John F Stufflebeam.

"When William Stufflebeam's mother-in-law, (Elizabeth's mother), was about eight years old, her mother and father and one or two small children took the ox team and went to the mill to get some corn ground;for practically the only bread they had in those days was bread made from corn.

Leaving her and another girl about 12 years old, a grown girl, and a grown boy about 16 or 17 years old, respectively. The parents would not be back for several days and warned them to keep a sharp lookout for Indians.

It was the next day after the parents had left to go to the mill, that the grown boy hoeing potatoes a short distance from the house,with his gun nearby. a small band of about 50 Indians in full war paint, came out of the woods nearby and attacked him. He shot and killed one Indian, which of course enraged the rest of them. They immediately killed and scalped him.

This the girls saw from the house and when the Indians started toward them they hid in an old four poster bedstead, next to the outside wall of the log cabin. Somehow the Indians failed to find them there .

The girls watched from between the cracks in the logs to see what the Indians would do next. Finally a lone Indian found the older girl hiding, and began to attack her, but she fought so hard with a hunting knife that she used to make pegs for her loom, that he called out to another Indian. Between them they killed and scalped her.

Then they started to leave without burning the buildings, when this young girl of 8 said, "I want to go with you." She immediately got out of her hiding place and ran after the Indians. There was a commotion among the Indians and an old Squaw stepped out and took hold hand and started to lead her toward the band.

Then a warrior was determined to kill her and probably would have succeeded in doing so, but just then another Indian,apparently the leader of the band, interfered. After listening to the old squaw's babble for a moment, he spoke sharply to the other Indian who put up his tomahawk. The band then moved on taking the little girl with them."

She lived with the Indians for about 8 years before being rescued by white soldiers accompanied by scouts, hunters, trappers and Indian fighters. "This girl was struck across the head with a saber and at first was thought to be dead. It turned out to be a glancing blow,however and only stunned her, but left a deep scar across the top of her head. Elizabeth's daughter, Lucinda in later years said that as you combed her grandmothers hair that many times the comb would drop in the old saber scar."

"As soon as she was able to travel, they took her back to the white settlement where she later married a man by the name of Miller and raised a family. One of the children was Elizabeth Miller who married William Stufflebeam."

Updated from MyHeritage Match via brother Andrew E Estes by SmartCopy: Sep 9 2014, 3:09:19 UTC

Updated from MyHeritage Match by SmartCopy: Sep 9 2014, 3:09:26 UTC

GEDCOM Source

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