MILLER FAMILY CEMETERY (Sometimes referred to as the Old Miller Cemetery) Near Ebenezer Church in Boone Twp, Columbia County, Arkansas =========================================================================== Submitted by: Sandy Gomer Email: thebear@the-bear.com =========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Sandy Bearden Gomer, thebear@the-bear.com *************************************************************************** Please contact me if you are researching the following families in Columbia County, Arkansas: Allen, Bearden, Bennett, Brister, Garrett, Hicks, Keesee, Leach/Leech, Miller, Morris, Parham, Reynolds, Shannon, Smart, Stewart, Walker, Wilson, Wood, Young Sandy Bearden Gomer PO Box 220 Bridger, MT USA 59014-0220 thebear@the-bear.com *************************************************************************** DIRECTIONS TO THE MILLER FAMILY CEMETERY From Village, Arkansas: go north on Hwy 98. Turn left on CR38. Turn right on CR440. The cemetery is on the left side of the road. HISTORY OF MILLER FAMILY CEMETERY [Provided by Jen Endsley, who found the information in a 1964 letter from Mrs. Ann Andrew of Magnolia, Arkansas] "They visited a Jim (James) Monroe Miller who was 82 yrs. old and the son of James Miller [and Sarah Venable] ... He said: ... William Miller started the Miller graveyard. Every relative in it has a stone. The first grave there is unmarked. It is an infant's grave. A Horton family came through the country and made a crop one year before moving on. Their daughter's child died and Grandpa Miller said he'd already picked out the site for the graveyard across the street from their house and told them to bury the child there." GRAVE PLACEMENT Looking into the cemetery from the gate (graves 1, 2, 3 in back row) 3 2 1 9 8 7 6 5 4 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 22 21 20 19 18 23 =========================================================================== The Miller Family Cemetery was canvassed by Sandy Bearden Gomer on April 25, 2000 [Notes in brackets are provided by Sandy Bearden Gomer] 1. INFANT of J.W. & O.E. MILLER 12 December 1900 2. VIRGEL MILLER 30 April 1909 - 6 August 1912 [son of John W. MILLER & Ora Ettie WILSON] 3. ORA ETTIE MILLER 20 April 1878 - 23 September 1954 [daughter of Benjamin Baker WILSON & Charlotte MILLER] JOHN W. MILLER 2 July 1882 - 10 October 1968 [son of James MILLER & Sarah VENABLE] 4. PRISCILLA E. MILLER 24 August 1906 - 5 October 1906 [daughter of Robert Turner MILLER & Ema HICKS] 5. COY MILLER 12 September 1907 - 18 August 1914 [son of Robert Turner MILLER & Ema HICKS] 6. EMA HICKS 27 August 1880 - 24 December 1946 [Ema H. HICKS - daughter of Henry Francis HICKS & Priscilla Evaline LEACH] ROBERT TURNER MILLER 7 November 1878 - 14 June 1940 [aka Turner Miller - son of James MILLER & Sarah VENABLE] 7. MILDRED NELSON 22 August 1906 - 9 October 1993 MABEN DUFFER MILLER 12 May 1904 - 14 September 1987 8. NELSON ROBERT MILLER, son of M.D. & Mildred Miller 26 April 1932 - 13 May 1932 9. marker for a couple who are still living 10. Father JAMES MILLER 22 July 1844 - 14 April 1928 [son of James William MILLER, Jr & Mary "Polly" BRISTER] 11. Daughter CARRIE S. MILLER 8 September 1880 - 30 April 1896 [daughter of James MILLER & Sarah VENABLE] 12. Mother SARAH VENABLE, wife of James Miller 6 May 1847 - 27 April 1896 [Mary Sarah Elizabeth Venable - daughter of William Lumpkin VENABLE & Martha] 13. SARAH A., Dau. of JAMES & S.E. MILLER 26 September 1884 - 26 November 1884 14. JOSEPH R., Son of JAMES & S.E. MILLER 20 May 1877 - 7 August 1877 [newer stone - dates taken from original stone, laying on the ground in front of the new stone] 15. INFANT of JAMES & S.E. MILLER [newer stone - remnants of original stone lay in front of new stone] 16. INFANT of MARHTA SHANNON [child of Martha Jane MILLER & William "W.W." SHANNON (died 1863)] [newer stone - remnants of original stone lay in front of new stone] 17. WILLIAM MILLER 6 November 1806 - 25 February 1864 [James William Miller, Jr - son of James William MILLER, Sr & Charlotte] MARY MILLER 12 October 1810 - 3 June 1884 [Mary "Polly" Brister - daughter of Hockaday BRISTER & Anna HODGES] 18. MARIUM M. MILLER 9 December 1874 - 22 October 1954 [child of James MILLER & Sarah VENABLE] 19. WILLIAM D. MILLER 17 June 1870 - 18 March 1900 [William David Miller - son of James MILLER & Sarah VENABLE] 20. WILLIAM S. MILLER 1863 21. LAFAYETTE LIGHTFOOT 1864 [perhaps related to Lewis M. LIGHTFOOT, who married Martha Jane MILLER in 1865] 22. MARTIN V. WILLIAMS 10 December 1833 - 19 December 1872 [Martin VanBuren WILLIAMS, spouse of Nancy MILLER] 23. [footstones used for both headstone and footstone - no name or markings]