Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Miller, William S.  May 15, 1947
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Ashland Progress
William S. Miller was born in Clay County, September 15, 1859, and lived here 
continuously, with exception of ten years spent in Ca. He was married to Johnnie 
A. Worthy of Randolph County and to that union was born eight children, five 
boys and three girls, two of which preceded him in death. The children are Mrs. 
W. O. Dawkins of Cragford, Mrs. M.H. Wood of Alexander City, O. B. Miller of 
Cragford, G. Miller of Malone, R.O. Miller of Dooling, and H. L. Miller of 
Sylacauga. are 19 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. He first joined the 
Baptist Church at County Line, afterward moving his membership to the newly 
organized church at Mellow Valley, which he helped organize and erect. Since 
then, he has been deeply interested in all church activities and nil other civic 
that made for progress in the County he loved. He departed this life May 15, 
1947, at the age of 88. A better Dad no bunch of children ever had, and our 
minds are at ease when we look back across the long span of years at a life of 
usefulness, unselfishly rendered. We wish to express our heart-felt thanks and 
appreciation to the' many friends who were so loyal to us during his illness and 
death, and for the many beautiful expressions of sympathy that carried us 
through the dark hours and gives us hope for the future. Services were held at 
Mellow Valley Baptist Church, directed by the pastor, H. G. Birchfield and 
assisted by Rev. O. C. Nichols of Cragford, Rev. J. L. Ingram of Ashland, and 
his former T. J. Preston Columbus, and Judge W. B. Nolen. Pallbearers were 
grandchildren and husbands of grandchildren, Herman Ritter, Columbus, Ga. Buster 
Wood, South Carolina; Kermit Miller, Montezuma, Theron Bailey, Columbus, J.P. 
Osborne, Alexander City, and Duel Thompson, Auburn. Interment was in McDaniel 
cemetery.

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