Picture found at 2820 Throckmorton. Blake was her second husband–he adopted EMM.
Mar 232011
Mar 232011
Thomas Marshall Miller, 1847-1920. This is Daddy’s grandfather. Born 19 January 1847 at Port Gibson, Mississippi to William Trigg Miller and Emily Van Dorn. There is a more detailed biography is three formats: HTML (best for on-line viewing, 13 Kbytes plus pictures), PDF (best for printing, 236 Kbytes), and Microsoft Word (284 Kbytes) . He […]
Mar 222011
Picture hidden behind the "Unknown man and woman".
Mar 222011
Thomas Gregory Dabney was born in Raymond, Mississippi to Philip Augustine Lee Dabney and Elizabeth Osborne Smith. He is the brother of our great-grandmother Letitia Dabney Miller. His seven-page autobiography is available in three formats: HTML (best for on-line viewing, 53 Kbytes plus pictures), PDF (best for printing, 55 Kbytes), and Microsoft Word (66 Kbytes) […]
Mar 212011
Margaret Brown’s sons. Charles, "Little Bubba", is the sailor. EMM says that Homer, "Big Bubba", is right front, the one apparently holding hands with Charles. The back of the original picture says "Homer, Charley, and Dave [Blake], Chicago".
Mar 212011
1878 photo from Mary Ware’s book "Mexico to Russia", showing Letitia Dabney Miller (wife of Thomas Marshall Miller and daughter of Philip Augustine Lee Dabney) and child. The book describes the picture as the author’s sister with her second child. We now know the child to be Thomas Marshall Miller, Jr., born in 1877, lived […]
Mar 202011
Big Bubba came home from the war with TB and died from the disease in about 1926. EMM, about 13 at the time, remembers the scary experience of having the open casket sit in the living room of 2820 Throckmorton for a week, apparently the custom of the day. PALM remembers Margaret Brown telling about […]