Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Kelita September 24, 1907
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Evening Times, Cumberland, MD, Sept. 25, 1907
Kelita Miller, a veteran of the Civil War, and a pensioner of the United 
States, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Wiiiam Getson, in Dudley, at 
4 a.m. yesterday.  Deceased was born in Pompey 69 years ago, and came to 
Lonaconing in his childhood and worked in and about the mines until the 
breaking out of the Civil War.  He enlisted in Company D. 2nd Md. Vols. P. H. 
B., for three years, or during the war.  Before the three years were up, he re-
enlisted and was given a bounty, in accordance with the provisions of an act 
of Congress passed to retain veterans in the service.  He served until the 
close of the war.

Mr. Miller was married at the close of the war to Miss Mary Murphy, of near 
Midland, who survives him, as also does ten children.  They are Isaac, 
Charles, Louis, Frank and Gibson, all residents of Lonaconing.  The surviving 
daughters are Mrs. William Getson, Mrs. William J. Haines, Mrs. John Click and 
Misses Nettie and Annie, all of this place.

Mr. Miller was a pensiner under the law of June 27, 1890, and drew the maximum 
of $12 per month.  He was a member of McPherson Post, Grand Army of the 
Republic, which he joined October 5th, 1881.  He enlisted August 8, 1861, and 
was mustered out May 29, 1865.

The funeral will take place toorrow at 2:30 p.m. Religious services will be 
conducted at the Getson residence by Rev. R. D. Stephenson,  pastor of the 
Baptist Church, in Lonaconing.  McPherson Post will bury their comrade with 
military honors, and interment will be in old Coney Cemetery.

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