HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS  Miles W. Liner

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Source: "MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches,  1896.

MILES W. LINER, farmer, Tallapoosa, Haralson Co.,
Ga., son of Christopher D. and Sarah Liner, was born
in Carroll county, Ga., May 26, 1836. His parents
went from Walton county, Ga., to Mississippi, in
1835, but returned to Georgia and settled in Carroll
county early in 1836. Mr. Liner was raised in
Carroll county and was educated at the "old-field"
common schools, taught in the dirt floor log cabins.
He was exempt from military service during the war
on account of physical disability. Mr. Liner was
married Sept. :23, 1858, to Miss Marguerite E.,
daughter of Robert A. and Jane Katharine Read of
Carroll county, by whom he has had sixteen children:
George Alexander, Henry Wise, Sarah Katharine, John
Franklin, Robert Christopher, Mary Elizabeth, Susan
Indiana, James Quitman, Harvey Washington, Rhoda
Malighty, Madison, Van Buren, Jefferson, Malachi,
Emma Rosella, and Simeon Jack son (deceased). Mr.
Liner is a well-to-do farmer, respected by
everybody, unambitious, and content with the
generous yield of his well-cultivated lands.