Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Submitted by Billie Bournias


[John D. Miller
1869-1924  s/o A.M. & Arminda S. Miller]

Member of P[r]ominent Fairfield Family Dies

  News was received here Sunday night of the sudden death of John D. Miller in
Austin, which had just occurred.  His remains were brought here Tuesday to the 
old Miller home, where they were viewed by relatives and old friends, after 
which they were interred in the family burial lot in the Fairfield cemetery
with Masonic honors.
  John D. Miller was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Miller, and he was
born in Fairfield 55 years ago.
  Mr. Miller for many years was a member of the firm of A. M. Miller & Sons, 
and he was a business man of unusual talents.  As the flower-decked casket
rested in the living room of the old family home, far back among the cedars,
the friends who gathered quietly, remembered that John Miller, had been a man
of culture, and with a love of things that were beautiful, fine pictures, music,
and books.  The room in which he lay, was a testimony of the things that he had
found most worth while in life.  It was although he had come home, back to the
things he had loved, and no matter what shadows may fall in a life time -- 
there is always the peace in the end.
  "Far though from out the bourne of time and place, 
   The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my pilot face to face.
   When I have crossed the bar."
   Deceased is survived by a sister, Mrs. R. M. Edwards, and a brother, W. H.
Miller, of Fairfield.  
   He was a man of sterling qualities and had many friends.  Relatives and 
friends who attended the funeral of John Miller here Tuesday were: Mrs. J. D. 
Johnson and daughter, Patty, of Richland Springs; Mrs. C. B. Miller and 
daughter, Nancy of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Ross Lindley, of Wortham; and W. A. 
Hammett of Corsicana.