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 […]
Tom, Jr. has generated softcopy from the original type-written pages and added a section of footnotes. The document is available in three formats: HTML (best for on-line viewing, 134 Kbytes plus pictures), PDF (best for printing, 175 Kbytes), and Microsoft Word (160 Kbytes) .
The first two pictures show both sides of a 1919 postcard that Sgt 1st Class Homer Brown (“Big Bubba”) wrote to his six-year-old niece EMM from France. He references “Little Bubba”, his brother Charles. Note that the card has been stamped “Passed As Censored”. The third picture shows a 1926 card from Homer to EMM. […]
This 1908 photograph shows Emily Van Dorn Miller at age 81, with her son Thomas Marshall Miller, grandson John Dabney Miller (1878-1949), and great-grandchildren John, Jr.(19 Oct 1906-1996), and Albert (1907-1910). The date given above is based on Albert’s birthdate of 18 Nov 1907 and his young age. Emily Donelson Van Dorn Miller, daughter of […]
EMM says that her graduation from North Dallas High was a big event because she was the first of her family to graduate from high school. She says they didn’t have any money and must have paid a dollar a month for the next hundred years to pay for the dress.
Born 1814 in Kentucky, William was a lawyer, cotton broker, and riverboat gambler. He is the father of Thomas Marshall Miller (b1847) and is our great-great-grandfather. We don’t know when he died but he was alive during the Civil War. This picture belongs to Laurean Reynolds of New Orleans, great-grandaughter of Earl Van Dorn Miller.
Photo made in Sawtelle, CA, when EMM was one year old. The older woman is Mrs. Graybill.