Sylvester R. Milliron and Rebecca Olds

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Husband Sylvester R. Milliron ¹

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           Born: 22 May 1844 - Pinecreek Twp, Jefferson Co, PA 1
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         Father: Daniel Milliron (1816-1889) 1
         Mother: Margaret McKinley (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 24 Sep 1865 2

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Wife Rebecca Olds ²

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           Born: 1 Mar 1846 - Clinton Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Olds (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Catherine Pfeiffer (      -      ) 2

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1 M Charles Milliron ³

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2 F Carrie Milliron ^{3 4}

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         Spouse: Ross Sager (      -      ) 3 4

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3 M William Milliron ³

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           Born: Abt 1871
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4 F Martha Milliron ³

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         Spouse: Frank Vasbinder (      -      ) 3

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5 M Albert Milliron ³

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6 F Jennie Milliron ³

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         Spouse: William Crow (      -      ) 3

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7 F Addie Milliron ³

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         Spouse: Foster Shoup (      -      ) 3

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8 F Margaret Milliron ³

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         Spouse: Joseph Crawford (      -      ) 3

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9 M Henry Milliron ³

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10 F Kozie Milliron ³

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         Spouse: William Rhines (      -      ) 3

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11 M Harry Milliron ³

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General Notes: Husband - Sylvester R. Milliron

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He gained his early education in the pioneer schools and as a boy and youth was actively associated with the reclaiming and development of the old homestead near Emerickville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. At the age of seventeen he gave up all personal interests to tender his services in defense of the Union. In September, 1861, at Brookville, he enlisted in Company E, 18th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which became a part of the 3d Battalion and was attached to the Army of the Cumberland. He participated with his command in the various engagements in which it was involved during a period of about two years, and then, on account of physical disability, received an honorable discharge on the 13th of February, 1863, while at Nashville, Tennessee. He was corporal of his company, and while incapacitated for field service during the latter part of his military career gave effective service as hospital quartermaster. After receiving his discharge Mr. Milliron returned to the parental home, where he remained until the time of his marriage.
After his marriage Mr. Milliron applied himself diligently and effectively to lumbering operations. He contracted for the felling of timber and hewing the same into squared logs, the product then being rafted down the streams to Pittsburgh. In this connection he gained marked reputation as a successful pilot of such rafts, and he continued his association with lumbering activities in Jefferson County until 1873, when he removed to Elk County and carried on operations along the course of the Clarion river. He was successful as a contractor in this line of industrial enterprise, continuing this until about 1897. He was retained as pilot of lumber rafts on the smaller streams as well as the rivers, and had taken rafts as far down the Ohio river as the city of Cincinnati. On one occasion he had charge of the piloting of a raft that comprised two million feet of timber, requiring the services of twenty-eight men as assistants to the pilot. In the eighteen-eighties Mr. Milliron returned to the old homestead on which he was born, but two years later he purchased a farm adjacent to that of the County Home or infirmary, two miles east of Brookville. This farm comprised 150 acres, with about eighty acres under cultivation. Mr. Milliron cleared and otherwise improved a considerable portion of this farm, removed the stumps from the various fields and erected a number of good buildings, including a modern frame house and a large barn. In 1911 he rented his farm and removed to an attractive little home, just east of Brookville, where he and his devoted wife passed the evening of their lives in peace and prosperity.
Mr. Milliron never deviated in allegiance to the Democratic party. He served several terms as supervisor, besides holding the position of township assessor and other local offices. He was a member of the G. A. R. Both he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
At the county fair grounds, on the 24th of September, 1915, Mr. and Mrs. Milliron celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, on which occasion more than one hundred of their kinsfolk and close friends assembled to pay them tribute. This venerable couple had the distinction of having forty-seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

1 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 339.

2 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 340.

3 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 341.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 414.