CHARLIE AND ROSE MILLER FAMILY

Our great grandfather, A.S. Barnard, came to the Naperville rural area in 1838 and after a few years of helping other settlers, returned to Mendow, New York for his bride, and in 1843 they settled on what is now known as the Robert Yackley farm. Our grandfather, Daniel Dewey Barnard, was born there and when he was twelve years old they moved east on Hobson Road to the farm immediately west of the east branch of the DuPage River on the north side of the road. When Daniel grew up, he married Helen Stone from Oak Park, and from this union came our mother, Rose Barnard. 

Many years later, Charlie Miller came over from Yugoslavia to work on their farm and our mother married him after graduating from North Central College—and he with only two years of formal schooling!! She was 35 and had spent many years caring for her invalid mother. He was a fantastic man and a good farmer! From this marriage came we three! Laura Miller Zedrow, Donald Charles Miller, Robert Dewey Miller.