Runaway Notice 1830

The following runaway notice appeared in the National Banner and Nashville Whig (Nashville, Tennessee) on Friday, 26 November 1830, page 1.  These  notices were often in newspapers published in towns along the rivers. News traveled along the rivers as news travels via internet today. 

Captain Joseph Miller was born in Ohio and built his first steamboat, the Red Rover, in Pennsylvania in 1827.  He was shot and killed at Trice's Landing, Tennessee in 1846, age 55,  and is buried in Nashville City Cemetery. His daughter, Nettie, married Ben F. Egan, nephew of Benjamin Barner and Sterling M. Barner, commission merchants of Smithland, Kentucky. Capt. Miller also owned land near the Smithland Cemetery at one time.

Published 19 March 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/