George Shintaffer MILLER

                   CHARLOTTE POWELL, 2422 15TH AVE., FOREST GROVE, OR 97116; 10/98
     1870 COW CREEK, DOUGLAS, OR; GEORGE MILLER, 17, miner, IL (st-son to head,
          Hiram Wood) (birth changed from 1850 to 1853)
FAMILY HISTORY BY JOYCE PEIL, NIECE: George Miller was the oldest of Mary
Ann's children. He was about 2 years old when they crossed the plains to
Oregon.  He led a very colorful life.  He scouted for the army, was one of the
hunters who supplied meat for the fort at Burns, OR, fought indians and wound
CHARLOTTE POWELL, 2422 15TH AVE., FOREST GROVE, OR 97116; 10/98
     1870 COW CREEK, DOUGLAS, OR; GEORGE MILLER, 17, miner, IL (st-son to head,
          Hiram Wood) (birth changed from 1850 to 1853)
FAMILY HISTORY BY JOYCE PEIL, NIECE: George Miller was the oldest of Mary
Ann's children. He was about 2 years old when they crossed the plains to
Oregon.  He led a very colorful life.  He scouted for the army, was one of the
hunters who supplied meat for the fort at Burns, OR, fought indians and wound
up a wealthy cattleman somehwere near Burns.  He was quite a dapper fellow and
a ladies man.  He married a widow, Emma Ballenbaugh, who had one son they
called Babe.  The couple had 9 children, the oldest, a girl, named Frances who
was always called Frankie.  There were 2 other girls, Clara, called Girlie, and
Nora, the baby of the family.
     Everyone in the family rode horses.  Frankie once said she wouldn't walke a
100 yards if there was a horse to ride that short distance.
     At one time there was a dispute between George and another rancher over the
ownership of a colt.  It was in the other man's corral and Uncle George and
several toher men rode over one night determined to take the colt.
     There was an argument and several shots were fired.  The rancher was killed
and Uncle George arrested for the murder.  At the trial, the dead rancher's
wife testified that she saw George fire the fatal shot by the light of the
moon and he was convicted, dispite his denials
     He was allowed time to put his affairs in order and make sure his wife would
not sell or in any way dispose of his ranch.  All this without bail ro any
assurance he would arrive at Salem to enter prison at the appointed hour.
     He served 2 years of his sentence when a former neighbor who lived in
Pendleton happened to reading a 2-year old almanac.  It stated that on the
night of the mudrer, at the hour of the shooting, the mood had not yet risen.
The friend rode poste haste to the authorities -- ching hourses 3 times in the
process -- The case was reviewed and Uncle George released.
     I don't think he resumed life with Aunt Emma.  It seems to me he spent the
rest of his life staying with one or the other of his married children, with
frequent visits to Glendale.


a ladies man.  He married a widow, Emma Ballenbaugh, who had one son they
called Babe.  The couple had 9 children, the oldest, a girl, named Frances who
was always called Frankie.  There were 2 other girls, Clara, called Girlie, and
Nora, the baby of the family.
     Everyone in the family rode horses.  Frankie once said she wouldn't walke a
100 yards if there was a horse to ride that short distance.
     At one time there was a dispute between George and another rancher over the
ownership of a colt.  It was in the other man's corral and Uncle George and
several toher men rode over one night determined to take the colt.
     There was an argument and several shots were fired.  The rancher was killed
and Uncle George arrested for the murder.  At the trial, the dead rancher's
wife testified that she saw George fire the fatal shot by the light of the
moon and he was convicted, dispite his denials
     He was allowed time to put his affairs in order and make sure his wife would
not sell or in any way dispose of his ranch.  All this without bail ro any
assurance he would arrive at Salem to enter prison at the appointed hour.
     He served 2 years of his sentence when a former neighbor who lived in
Pendleton happened to reading a 2-year old almanac.  It stated that on the
night of the mudrer, at the hour of the shooting, the mood had not yet risen.
The friend rode poste haste to the authorities -- ching hourses 3 times in the
process -- The case was reviewed and Uncle George released.
     I don't think he resumed life with Aunt Emma.  It seems to me he spent the
rest of his life staying with one or the other of his married children, with
frequent visits to Glendale.