CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Miller
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Miller

  A sister of Samuel Pannill of Green Hill, Sarah Bailey Morton Pannill, married
David Fitz Patrick and their daughter, Francis K. Fitz Patrick married Samuel T.
Miller; the latter •were the parents of William A. Miller, Lynchburg's fine old
citizen who lived within three months of his century mark,-useful and honored to
the last,—his death caused by a fall followed by pneumonia.

  Samuel Thomas Miller opened a female school at New London in 1811, but the
next year he enlisted under Captain Adam Clement in a cavalry company to serve
during the war of 1812 •which was sent to Mount Holly, N. J., but remained idle.
He returned to New London and re-opened his school. He married in 1817 Frances
Elizabeth Fitz Patrick of Pittsylvania; bought property in New London and taught
there ten years. He bought 60O acres on Staunton river. In 1821 he took charge
of New London Academy, where he remained two years: he then opened a boys'
school in New London, but sold his property there and moved to his plantation on
Staunton river; built Woodburne in Pittsylvania and conducted there a classical
school which was patronized by families who lived in the surrounding country. He
had a household of fourteen children, eight sons and six daughters; died in
187O, aged 8O years. Many of his children lived to old age. His son, Thomas, a
Confederate veteran, was for many years a prominent teacher in Lynchburg
schools; a son, Hartshorn Miller, was on the staff of the Lynchburg News and
contributed to other papers. William A. Miller married Margaret Henry, a
granddaughter of Patrick Henry.


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