Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Al 1909
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Arizona Republican-August 30, 1909
AL MILLER
August 30, 1909

A most deplorable accident occurred yesterday about daybreak 
on the government road to Roosevelt and resulted in instant 
death of Al Miller, for many years a well known citizen of 
this place.  News of the tragedy was received here by phone 
from Government Wells, a few miles the other side of where 
the fatal accident occurred, about seven o'clock yesterday 
morning and was a great shock to Tempe people.  Few people 
even knew that Mr. Miller was out of town.  Present with Mr. 
Miller when the accident occurred wre Dr. B.B. Moeur and 
Halbert Miller.

On Saturday Dr. Moeur had a telephone message from Fish 
Creek Station in regard to a sick child at that point. He 
gave instructions and advised that in case of further 
illness he be sent for.  A second mesasge was received 
after midnight yesterday morning urging him to come to 
Fish Creek at once.  The doctor's machine was not in good 
running shape, so he engaged Mr. Miller and Mr. Halbert 
to take him to the station.

The distressing accident occurred at a point on the road a 
short distance the other side of Weeks' Station, between 
there and Goldfield.  The sterring wheel of the machine had 
been giving trouble all along the road and at several points 
a turnover had been narrowly averted.  Mr. Miller was driving 
and Mr. Halbert occurpied the rear seat with Dr. Moeur in the 
front passenger seat.  The machine overturned on top of Mr. 
Miller who was still conscious when the machine was being 
lifted from him.  In three to five minutes he breathed his 
last.  

Halbert walked to Government Wells and telephoned to Tempe 
for Undertaker Carr.  He had the dead wagon sent and then 
went on ahead in Dr. Moeur's auto.  The machine was badly 
wrecked and though the engine continued to run it was so 
badly damaged that it will probalby have to be brought home 
for repairs in a freight wagon.

The deepest sympathy has been expressed for the surviving 
wife and children. Miss Emma Miller, the eldest daughter 
is at present in Long Beach. 

Few people in the Valley were better known than Al Miller. 
A man of middle age, he has lived here constantly since 
early boyhood, coming here with his father from Iowa.  He 
was the eldest son of the late Winchester Miller, one of 
the pioneers of this section.

September 3, 1909

The following obituary has been submitted for publication:

Albert Miller was born in the state of Texas in the year 1859. 
He resided there until the age of six, when his mother died and 
the father then took him and his brother William and sister, 
Laura (Mrs. J.F. Haigler) back to Iowa, where he was raised 
by his grandparents. His father, the late Winchester, one of 
the earliest and best known of Tempe's pioneers, came west at 
that time and settled in the Salt River Valley in the early 
seventies. 

In 1875 Albert Miller, then a lad still in his teens, started 
west in search of his father, from whom he had heard only 
infrequently during the years that had elapsed since his 
departure from Iowa. He only knew that he was somewhere in 
Arizona.  From California he made the trip by overland stage 
to Tempe, coming by way of Wickenburg.  The trip was a 
trying one, but the boy was bent upon being with his father 
again and continued on his way until he safely arrived in 
Tempe.

He remained here with his father for two years and then 
returned to Iowa. He found, however, that there was something 
lacking in the east.  He missed the free life of the west, 
perhaps.  AT any rate after spending but a couple of years 
in Iowa he again turned toward Arizona and arrived here in 
1880. He has made the Salt River Valley his home constantly 
since.  He was a shrewd business man and by diligent effort 
prospered.

At the time of his death he was the principal owner of the 
Arizona Mercantile Company hnd had extensive property interests 
in and around Tempe.

In 1886 he was united in marriage to Antoinette Halbert, 
daughter of A.J. Halbert. He is survived by his wife and four 
children, Halbert Winchester, Emma Calvert, Augusta(Gussie) Clare 
and Floyd Hayden.

Mr. Miller met his death in an automobile accident on the 
government road to Roosevelt on Sunday morning, August 29, 
just at daylight.  The funeral took place two days later on 
Tuesday, the thirty-first and the remains were laid to rest 
in the Double Butte Cemetery.

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