Levi A. Miller, Beauregard Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy Britton



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PARISH HISTORY
by John T. Cupit

Among the Millers who came to Calcasieu Parish in the early days was Mr.
Levi A. Miller, who settled in what is now Beauregard Parish in the Dry
Creek community.  He was a native of South Carolina, born Sept. 18,
1830.  He was one of a family of eleven children born to John and
Samantha Payne Miller.  His parents both natives of South Carolina born
1807 and 1802 respectively.  John Miller was a successful planter in
Marion County, where he married in 1824.  He emigrated from South
Carolina to Mississippi in 1852, and here he resided until tht time of
his death, which occured in 1878.  His wife died in 1863.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of Marion
County, South Carolina.  He began life as a planter in Mississippi,
which occupation he followed all his life.  He emigrated from
Mississippi in 1861 first locating on Bunny's Creek, (is this what we
call Bundick?) where he resided until 1866 when he purchased the farm
where he lived at the date this data was published, about 1892.  Mr.
Miller served during the latter part of the Civil War in Co. 3, Ragsdale
Battalion, Confederate States Army.  He owned ??4 acres of land, a
portion of which was under cultivation and well  ?.  He raised a variety
of products and by careful imaginative and tact yielded him a good
income.
Mr. Miller was prominent in public affairs.  He was a member of the
Police Jusy of Ward Seven.  He was also Master of the Masonic Lodge N.
182 and also President of the Farmers Association.  Mr. Miller was
united with Miss Margaret Jones in marriage, date not known.  She was
the daughter of James and Lydia (Wilson) Jones, the former a native of
North Carolina and the latter a native of South Carolina.  In this union
were born eleven children, five sons and six daughters one of whom was
deceased by 1891.  George, who is still living and past ninety years of
age.  Minerva, wife of Mr. Robinson, Emberli, Samantha, wife of George
Newell; Blanche; John; Delphine; Hulda; Nathan, the father of the large
family of boys we know in Beauregard Parish, who have been prominent in
the school teaching profession, raising stock and other business affairs
as well as political affairs; Lydia and Jerimiah who was deceased by
1891.