Jo-Anne Short FAIR HAVEN — Jo-Anne Short, age 87, passed away March 23, 2024; surrounded by family; at her home in Fair Haven. Jo-Anne was born in Granville, NY, on
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John Bunker WHITEHALL, NY — John “Jack” Allen Bunker, 86, of Whitehall passed peacefully into the arms of our Lord Wednesday morning January 10, 2024, at the Washington Center in
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William Miller, (born Feb. 15, 1782, Pittsfield, Mass., U.S. died Dec. 20, 1849, Low Hampton, N.Y.), American religious enthusiast, leader of a movement called Millerism that sought to revive belief that the bodily arrival (“advent”) of Christ was imminent.
Miller was a farmer, but he also held such offices as deputy sheriff and justice of the peace. In the War of 1812 he served as a captain of the 30th Infantry. After years of Bible study he began to preach in 1831 that the present world would end “about the year 1843.” He based this belief primarily on a passage in the Book of Daniel (8:13–14). He published a pamphlet in 1833 and a book of lectures in 1836, the first of many publications. Principal organs of the Millerite movement were the