Rigdon records: Bk. 3, #19: Wm. Miller, d. Nov. 13, 1904, age 89, funeral ordered by Mrs. J. Kellogg, burial in I.O.O.F. cemetery.

1850 OR CENSUS - William Miller, age 34, occupation farmer, b. Scotland, is enumerated with Jane, age 34, b. Scotland, along with Andrew, age 12, b. Scotland, Jane, age 6, b. Oregon, and Caroline, age 6 monoths, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family are 3 Matheny children, Jasper, age 16, Charlotte, age 12, and David, age 7, all born in Illinois.

1900 OR CENSUS - William Miller, age 85, widowed, occupation farmer, b. Jul 1815 in Scotland.

NOTE - From Oregon Biographical Card Files, 1700-1900's:William Miller, b. Scotland July 26, 1815, Settled in the States, N. Y., 1842, Pa. Ill; Married Jane McDonald, Mar. 20 , 1846; Started to Oregon Mar. 29, 1846 from Illinois; Route - Plains; Arrived in Willamette Valley 1846; occupation Farmer; REMARKS: Veteran of Cayuse War, He also went to California in 1848 and mined for a time and returned to Illinois annd brought his famiy out in 1850, by the overland route

OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1904) #1675: Wm. Miller, d. Nov. 13, 1904, W. T. Rigdon, burial in IOOF cemetery, Nov. 14, 1904.
 

PEACEFUL END WILLIAM MILLER PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS
Deceased Was a Well Known Pioneer Resident of Capital City
Came to Oregon in 1846. 
William Miller, more familiarly known as "Scotch" Miller, died at his home in this city at 12:20 o'clock this morning, after a lingering illness extending over a period of many months. The deceased was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, July 26, 1815, being aged at the time of his death, 89 years, three months and 17 days. 
William Miller came to the United States in 1842. He went to Pennsylvania and there engaged in mining coal. From there he went to Shelby county, Illinois, where he had some mining and farming interests. After about five years spent in Illinois, on March 20, 1846, he started across the plains to Oregon, making the journey with ox teams. In 1848 Mr. Miller went to California, where he also engaged in mining, and in 1850 returned to Oregon where he has since made his home. He leaves a wife to mourn his death. He was a member of the Masonic lodge. 
Oregon Statesman 13 Nov 1904 3:4 

WILLIAM MILLER -- In the death of William Miller Salem has lost one of its best known and most highly respected citizens. He was unobtrusive in his manner, kind to everybody, industrious, and his honesty was a decidedly maked characteristic. William Miller was born in the suburbs of Glasgow, Scotland, on the 26th of July 1815, and was consequently past 89 years of age. His father, who was a coal miner, died when William was 7 years of age and being poor people, the struggle for a livlihood which became the portion of the family inured him to all the hardships and stings of poverty. He remained in Scotland, working in the mines and was married on March 28th in 1837. 
In 1842, with his wife, he came to America, thinking to better his condition, and, settling in Pennsylvania, he at once went to work in that state mining coal. After one year he went to Schuyler county, Illinois, and worked in the stone coal mines until the spring of 1846, when, leaving his family behind, he joined a company of Oregon immigrants, with Captain Pugh in command, and came to the Willamette valley in search of a new and better home. He first settled in Yamhill county and built what he claimed were the first ten vats ever used in Oregon. At one time he owned the site of the Methodist Mission below Salem, and after two years in Oregon, joined the exodus to California in the fall of '48. He only remained there, however, until the spring of "49, when he went to Bedstown, Cass county, Illinois, and rejoined his family, from whom he had been absent for three years. When he first left Illinois, arrangements were made for his brother to bring his wife later, but a death in the family changed his plans and the trip was abandoned. 
In the spring of '50 Mr. Miller fitted out nine wagons with teams and returned to Oregon with his family and again settled in Yamhill county, acquiring a farm of 960 acres joining Wheatland on the south, which he owned at the time of his death. In '57 he moved into the house on the corner of Court and Cottage streets, Salem, which has been his home ever since. 
In 1863 Mr. Miller bought the Minto Island of William Griswold, through Caton and Curl, his attorneys and for a year or more supplied Salem with vast amounts of ash cord wood. This reminds the writer that the first money he ever earned for himself was by unloading for Mr. Miller a flatboat containing six cords of ash wood at the foot of Trade Street one Saturday in the summer of '64, while endeavoring to make his way through Willamette University. 
For nearly sixty years, the subject of this sketch has been a familiar figure on our streets, always an upright citizen with hosts of friends, an honor to the nationality to which he belonged, a lover of his adopted country and has left an example as the embodiment of the simple virtures which go to make a manly man that is worthy of all emulation. 
Oregon Statesman 15 November 1904 2:1, 2

William Miller 
Born In Scotland 
July 25, 1815 
Died Nov. 13, 1904 
(east side of monument shared with Jane McDonald Miller)

LR 
LD 
OSBH DC ( Marion Co., 1904) #1675 
DAR pg 84 
S&H pg 41 

1850 OR CENSUS (Yamhill Co., pg 316)

1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 130, sheet 6B)
Saucy Survey & Photographs

Oregon Biographical Card Files, 1700-1900 (Ancestry.com)

Rigdon Bk. 3, #19 
OS 13 Nov 1904 3:4 
OS 15 Nov 1904 2:1, 2