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     He was born on 1 August 1856 at Bervie, Ontario.¹ He was the son of William Millar II and Margaret Ralston. He died on 11 February 1865 at Bervie?, Ontario, at age 8.¹

     She was born at Whitewater, Manitoba. She was the daughter of James Allan Millar and Katherine Meiklejohn. She married A. Evans. She died in 1985.

     She was born on 10 February 1853 at Bervie, Ontario.¹ She was the daughter of William Millar II and Margaret Ralston. She married William Pringle at Bervie, Ontario.¹ She died on 17 March 1926 at Boissevain, Manitoba, at age 73.¹

     She is the daughter of George Edward Millar Jr.

     She is the daughter of James Allan Millar and Katherine Meiklejohn. She married William Christianson at Campbell River, B.C..

     She is the daughter of William Millar and Ann Virtue.

     She was born on 21 February 1860 at Bervie, Ontario.¹ She was the daughter of William Millar II and Margaret Ralston. She married William B. Cumming at Morden, Manitoba. She married Henry Clark Dana on 17 December 1893 at Bottineau, North Dakota.¹ She died on 27 January 1940 at Bottineau, North Dakota, at age 79.¹

     She was born on 7 May 1898 at Exeter, Ontario. She was the daughter of Matthew Virtue Millar and Caroline Harriet Cann. She married Harold J. Wyatt on 10 September 1923 at Palmerston, Ontario. She married Steve Foldi in November 1964. She died on 23 June 1978 at Windsor, Ontario, at age 80.

     He was born on 30 March 1875 at Bervie, Ontario.¹ He was the son of William Millar II and Margaret Ralston. He married Caroline Harriet Cann on 26 December 1894 at Exeter, Ontario.¹ He died on 2 December 1952 at Salem, Ontario, at age 77.¹

     He is the son of William Millar and Ann Virtue.

     He was born on 16 October 1802 at Falkirk, Scotland.¹ He was the son of William Millar and Agnes Muir. He died before 1811.¹

     He is the son of William Millar and Agnes Muir.

     She is the daughter of George Edwin Millar and Olga Lukob. She married James Carrl Lamphier at Seattle, Washington.

     He was born at Bervie, Ontario. He was the son of Charles Millar and Lottie McKenny. He died at Bervie, Ontario.

     She was born on 16 January 1900 at Bervie, Ontario. She was the daughter of Matthew Virtue Millar and Caroline Harriet Cann. She married Charles M. Lawrence on 11 November 1925 at Palmerston, Ontario. She died in April 1982 at Peterborough, Ontario, at age 82.

     He was born in November 1902 at Canada. He was the son of George Edwin Millar and Olga Lukob. He died in 1935.

     He is the son of William Millar and Agnes Muir.

     He was born on 16 August 1925 at Whitewater, Manitoba, Canada.¹ He was the son of Donald S. Millar and Lulla Catherine MacLeod.¹

Robert G. Millar died on 28 May 2001 at St Edwards Mercy Medical Center, Fort Smith, Arkansas, at age 75.¹ He was buried at Elohim City, Adair Co., Oklahoma.¹
     

In November 1973, Robert G. Millar, a former Mennonite and a United States resident alien from Canada, founded Elohim City, a Christian Identity settlement of 70 to 90 residents located on 400 acres at the edge of a rugged and mountainous tract of land along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border in Adair County, Oklahoma. "Filled with the Holy Spirit," according to a son, Millar moved to Oklahoma City in the mid-1950s, where he founded a church; in the mid-1960s, he moved to Ellicott City, Maryland, to run a campground. He returned to Oklahoma in 1973 with about 18 family members to establish Elohim City, or "City of God," as a spiritual community to "honor God" while waiting for Him to establish His kingdom on earth. A number of Millar's followers were related to him by birth or marriage.

Christian Identity is a religious sect notorious for its racist and anti-Semitic tenets, but Elohim City residents have preferred to identify themselves in milder terms. Indeed, to many residents, the compound has been a place of refuge rather than a site from which to wage a holy war. Extremists visiting Elohim City expecting some sort of bastion of white rage, like the former Hayden Lake, Idaho compound of Aryan Nations, were frequently disappointed by the comparatively more reclusive lifestyle adopted by many residents. Millar acknowledged that community members favored racial separatism, but claimed: "Somebody said, 'You're not a racist, you're a purist.' I sort of liked that.'" Similarly, his second-oldest son John, one of eight Millar children and the community's presumptive new leader following the death of his father in May 2001, has said, "we consider ourselves survivalists in the sense that we want to survive the best way we can.…We have weapons, but any person within 15 miles of us has more weapons per household than we do. We don't make a big thing about weapons. We don't think we can keep the National Guard away with a few weapons."

Yet when Elohim City initially came to public attention, in the mid-1980s, guns were the issue. In 1986, the estranged wife of a Canadian man fled with their four children to Elohim City in defiance of a court order awarding custody of the children to the father. When law enforcement officials arrived at the compound in an attempt to enforce the court's decision, they were met by residents bearing semiautomatic weapons. Rather than risk gunfire, the officers withdrew.

Elohim City leaders and members had ties to The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of the Lord, a now-defunct paramilitary survivalist group that operated an Identity settlement near the Arkansas-Missouri border. Elohim City residents attended the group's 1982 "national convention" at the CSA compound, and Robert Millar preached several times at religious services held during the gathering; likewise, CSA activists James Ellison and Richard Wayne Snell visited Elohim City several times in the early 1980s. When Ellison, the CSA's leader, was arrested in 1985 for possession of illegal weapons, the F.B.I. and state authorities enlisted the cooperation of Millar and his son John to mediate Ellison's surrender in the hope of averting an armed confrontation during the course of a four-day standoff. Ellison was later indicted on federal racketeering charges in the attempted bombing of a natural gas pipeline near Fulton, Arkansas, and on arson charges in fires at a Springfield, Missouri, church; a Jewish community center in Indiana; and a private home. John Millar called the charges against Ellison "bureaucratic technicalities" and "a bunch of hogwash." Robert Millar, moreover, served as Ellison's spiritual adviser during his imprisonment. Ellison eventually was convicted and sentenced in September 1985 to 20 years in prison on federal racketeering and firearms violations charges. In 1987, however, he testified for the government at the Fort Smith, Arkansas, sedition trial of 10 leading far-right figures -- including Aryan Nations' leader Richard Butler, former Klansman and neo-Nazi Louis Beam and several members of the white supremacist gang The Order (none of whom were found guilty) -- and was subsequently placed in the federal witness relocation program. He later married Millar's granddaughter Angeline Millar and lived with her in Elohim City.

Robert Millar also served as a spiritual adviser to the CSA's Snell, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1984 killing of an Arkansas state trooper during a routine traffic stop (John Millar testified as a character witness for Snell during the trial) and then subsequently charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to die for the 1983 execution-style murder of a pawn shop owner in Texarkana -- whom he mistakenly thought to be Jewish. Snell reportedly told a CSA colleague that the pawnshop owner was "a Jew who deserved to die." On April 19, 1995, Robert Millar visited Snell before he was executed, witnessed the execution and arranged for Snell's body to be buried in Elohim City; the Oklahoma City bombing occurred the same day.

Following the bombing, Elohim City received substantial public attention, in part because of what some on the far right described as "parallels" between Millar's Identity enclave and the Branch Davidian sect in Waco. Millar acknowledged that he and his followers feared a Waco-style raid of their compound (the 1993 federal siege at Waco ended in the deaths of about 80 Davidians); calls for further crackdowns after the Oklahoma bombing had intensified their anxieties. In media appearances, Millar maintained careful discretion about his religious, racial and civic views: The New York Times, in May 1995, described him as a Christian Identity preacher, but noted: "Mr. Millar was cautious in discussing Identity's racial outlook. Elohim City was 'not pro-Zionist,' he said. He charged that Israel was 'founded on terrorism,' and said that he believed that federal officials who arrested another Identity leader, James Ellison, in 1985, were accompanied by two agents of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency."

Millar was quoted as saying, "we're going to have a civil war and race riots" in America, but insisting that he had "no ill will toward any people" and that whites were divinely obliged as leaders to serve others, providing food and other aid. He declared: "I have to be a voice for moderation, a voice for common sense. I believe destruction is coming, but I want no part in starting it." The Times reported that Millar shunned the term "white supremacist" to describe himself but that he believed in racial differences.

Beyond any resemblance to the Waco sect, the primary reason that Elohim City attracted media attention after the Oklahoma City bombing was the discovery of a link between the bomber and Millar's settlement. Federal investigators learned that Timothy McVeigh and Elohim City security director Andreas Strassmeir had previously met at a Tulsa gun show and that McVeigh had called the compound on April 5, 1995, two weeks before the bombing. At a May press conference in Elohim City, Millar denied any connections with McVeigh, telling reporters that his community had never heard of McVeigh prior to the bombing. He stated: "I don't think I've ever seen him. I don't think he's ever been in any of my audiences to the best of my knowledge. He may have gotten our telephone number from someone if he used our telephone number. And if he phoned here, nobody here has any knowledge of ever talking to him."

Two months later, Millar said that he now thought, based on government sources, that McVeigh had, in fact, placed a two-minute phone call to Elohim City shortly before the bombing. Millar said the call came in to a private residence on the grounds, to a room where some of the residents gather for coffee, but that he found no one who remembered talking to McVeigh. By the following January, his story changed again: he now confirmed that a woman at the encampment took what was believed to be McVeigh's telephone call. He said that the caller was trying to reach Strassmeir (who had left the community about two months after the bombing). The woman said the caller claimed to have met Strassmeir at a gun show and wanted to know if he could visit the compound. Strassmeir was given the name and phone number but reportedly said he "didn't remember meeting this person." Millar said Strassmeir's decision to leave Elohim City was not linked to the bombing.²

[Conspiracy theorists have continually asserted that the Oklahoma City bombing plot was actually hatched at the Elohim City compound. While much of this is highly speculative, Stuart A. Wright, in his book, Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing, presents convincing evidence that Timothy McVeigh did visit Elohim City once, and probably twice, in the period leading up to the bombing.]

     He is the son of William Millar and Agnes Muir.

     He is the son of George Edward Millar.

     He is the son of James Allan Millar and Katherine Meiklejohn. He married Marjory Anna MacDonald on 22 November 1930 at Vancouver, B.C..

     He was born on 8 November 1799 at Falkirk, Scotland.¹ He was the son of William Millar and Agnes Muir. He married Ann Virtue on 5 August 1821 at Perth, Ontario.¹ He died on 10 November 1856 at Hibert Township, Ontario, at age 57.¹
     

In the Genealogical Records of Mary Glennis Graham Turner, she states that William Millar, grandson of William Millar and Margaret Ralston, wrote to her saying, "I discovered the book, 'Pioneer Sketches in the District of Bathurst,' [by Andrew Haydon, Ryerson Press] on Oct. 15, 1955. It contained this letter written by my great grandfather to his father in Scotland. The book is in an old library at Watson's Corners, [Dalhousie] Lanark Co., Ontario. The Lot No. 14 Concession 2, Dalhousie Twn. is where my grandfather was born. I visited it for the first time in October 1955, and found all the buildings gone from the place."

Extract from "Pioneer Sketches in the District of Bathurst:"

From William Millar to his father                    Lanark-on-the-Clyde
                                   Perth, 2nd October 1820

"I have got my land and everything as was said. My farm is 20 miles from this town and 5 miles from Lanark township. It is in the township of Dalhousie, No. 14, in the 2nd Concession. I am just going off on Monday to build my house. It is a nice lot of ground. I have got ten acres to Meadow hay on it. If I had been here two months sooner I would have had a cow this winter. If I have time I will cut some hay yet and get a cow, but this I cannot say till I get my house. £2 a head is just what we paid from Quebec to Perth Government settlements. In this town there are six or eight large stores where you can get anything, as you or I would in Glasgow, but cast metal is very dear, and crockery-ware. It is only four years since Perth was a wilderness of wood. There are four churches in it. The distance from Quebec to my farm is 409 miles. I intend to keep my family in Perth till I have my house up and provisions for them. The winter beef is 3d a pound; pork 5d; butter .15; tea .45 a pound; sugar 9d; tobacco 15-30 a lb. rum .15 a bottle. When you write me, direct to William Millar, farmer, No. 14 2nd Concession of Dalhousie, by Lanark. I have called my farm White-Lee, but it will not be known by that for some time. My friends need not come here, but for farming. No tradesman is wanted mostly at all. We came from Quebec to Montreal in a steamboat, and land carriage from that to Lachine, and from that in boats to Prescott, and from that to Perth in wagons, and such horses for running I never saw in my life. I thought when they started out that the men were mad, for they went off like shot out of a gun, up hill and down dale was all alike. They were most of them farmers, and I told the man that was with me, that if we were to run our horses that way we would kill them, but he said no fear of them; they are the most mettlesome creatures I ever saw. I can tell you, and you may tell all you know, that my wife bakes loaves as good as the best crisped loaves in Glasgow. I thought that I would miss the oatmeal greatly, but I do not. If you come, get into some society - great saving.
A pot which you would get for 4s. will cost £2 here, and a kettle costing you 6s. costs £2 here. Pots and pans be sure to fetch, and a grindstone. A set of tea dishes which you would get for 3s. will cost £1 here. A 4s.6d. dollar is 5s. here, and one of your shillings is 13d. and your farthing is 1/2d. and a pennypiece is the same. Everything you have, if it be the shape of a copper goes for 1/2d. I have gotten £2 this day, and I get as much this day three months, and as much in three months after that , and I get farming utensils of every description that I need. Thanks be to God for being so fortunate as I am. I got information this day from Capt. Marshall how I will get you out free of expenses, and If I get this for you, I think I shall be happy. This I write, If I get it for you, how you are to do."

     He married Agnes Muir on 16 January 1799 at Falkirk Parish, Scotland.¹

     He was born on 15 April 1825 at Dalhousie Township, Lanark Co., Ontario.¹ He was the son of William Millar and Ann Virtue.

He married Margaret Ralston, daughter of John Ralston and Margaret Glendenning, on 24 May 1850 at Lanark, Ontario;

Transcription of Marriage Certificate (provided by their grandson, William Millar Salem, Ontario):

"William Millar of the Township of Dalhousie in the United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew and province of Canada, "Yeoman," and Margaret Ralston of the Township of Drummond in the United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew and province of aforesaid, "Spinster,"
                              Elgin Duniantine
Thereby witnesses that the above persons were married by me this 24th Day of May 1850
                              Witness my hand
                              Thos. Fraser, Lanark
By His Excellency's Command
     T.D. Harington
Witnesses William Hedvick - Drummond
     John McIlquaham - Drummond."^2,1 He died on 24 November 1910 at Bervie, Ontario, at age 85.
     

In the genealogical records of Mary Glennis Graham Turner, there is a piece contributed to her by Blake Rutledge of Cardston, Alberta:

From "Illustrated Atlas of the Dominion of Canada," published by H. Belden & Co., Toronto, 1880:

"Historical Sketches, 1. William Millar of the Village of Bervie, in the Township of Kincardine, is the son of William Millar, of Scotch birth, who was one of the early settlers of Lanark. William Jr. was born in the township of Dalhousie, Lanark County, in 1826, and came to Bruce County in 1850, settling in the township Lot 58 of Kincardine, at the beginning of the Village of Bervie. When he came to Bervie, his entire worldly possessions consisted of two or three small tools in common use, a yoke of oxen, and less than $1 in money. In order to procure food, he went all the way to Durham with grists for his neighbors "on shares", the trip taking seven to ten days. He now (1880) owns 300 acres of fine land, and is one of the leading farmers in the community, carrying an extensive cheese manufacturing business in addition to his farm. Mr. William Millar never sought public office, though he has been a Justice of the Peace for many years. He is active in the promotion of agricultural interests through the various societies, and lends his influence to all enterprises of public benefit."

William Millar II and Margaret Ralston moved circa August 1850, shortly after their marriage, to near Kincardine, Bruce Co., Ontario.¹

     He was born on 24 April 1851 at Bervie, Ontario.¹ He was the son of William Millar II and Margaret Ralston. He married Anna Matilda Ward. He died on 23 July 1933 at Portland, Oregon, at age 82.¹ He was buried on 27 July 1933 at Greenwood Cemetary, Portland, OR.
     

He lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, and for a time before his death lived at the home of his niece, Mrs. Olga Millar Lamphier.

     He was born on 29 July 1896 at Bervie, Ontario. He was the son of Matthew Virtue Millar and Caroline Harriet Cann. He married Hazel Jean MacKenzie on 27 June 1923. He died in July 1985 at Salem-Elora?, Ontario.

     He was born at Bervie, Ontario. He was the son of Charles Millar and Lottie McKenny. He died at Bervie, Ontario.

     He is the son of William Millar III and Anna Matilda Ward.

     She was born on 6 April 1878 at Newton Hamilton, Mifflin Co., PA.¹ She was the daughter of John David Miller and Sarah Dorcas McVey. She married Clarence DeWitt See, son of DeWitt Clinton See and Frances A. Beebe, on 3 June 1908 at Minot, Ward Co., ND.¹ She died on 17 November 1939 at White Plains, Westchester Co., New York, at age 61.¹

     She was born in 1600 at Bishop's Stortford, Herefordshire. She married Robert Burnap circa 1625. She died on 27 April 1681 at Reading, MA.