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To Dorothy June 8, 1957

I can't tell you Alice, how happy I am down here. Instead of living with an insane world, Hazel is just like Klo & they were close friends. In fact Klo used to call her her closest friend.

Just what you would like to know

I'm so sorry for your Mother. She & Earl were my closest in Iowa

Uncle Billy

Letters from Alice Adair Johnson dated 1972-1975

I will never never never forget all your kindness to all. I would love to see you down here tho maybe would keep little sweet Helen. I can't begin to tell you how I've enjoyed Marvins visit. I never knew we had relatives as nice as he. What a wonderful time we had with him.

Uncle Billy and Hazel

Merry Christmas from Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Miller 

Dear Folks:- Klo feels & gets around better. Glad to hear from you in Ky. In Lexington we went in Henry Clays house, Mary Todds house before she married Lincoln, Morgan the Confederate raider for the South as J.E.B. Stuart was for the North. When you visit Ia stop to see us. I want to hold the little girl again.

Best wishes, Uncle Billy & Aunt Klo

Dr. Charles Zollman Miller spent all his early life in Ringgold County, Iowa.  In 1900 he graduated from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri and located for practice, soon after at Huntsville, Alabama, where he remained until his death, which occurred at Huntsville, after a six weeks' illness with typhoid fever in the 26th year of his age.  "His death is sad, not only in the ending of a happy and worthy existence or in the grief brought to his relatives and friends, but in the bright hopes cut down.  He was shortly to have returned to the north and gone into partnership with his brother at Centerville.  He was also to have been married in the month in which his death occurred, to Miss Beatrice Harrison, an estimable young lady of Huntsville, a cousin of the late President Harrison.  Miss Harrison and her sister, Mrs. Carrie Martin and her brother-in-law, P.R. Hunt, accompanied the remains to his home at Redding with his father, Horatio Thompson Miller and his brother-in-law, R.J. Loutzenhiser and his brother Dr. William B. Miller of Centerville, who attended him in his last illness."

Dr. Miller came of sturdy Scotch-Irish stock.  He was robust in health, vigorous in intellect, full of the energy that compels success and morally pure.  He had long been spiritually earnest.  When he became a Christian, he did so, fully, and performed all his Christian duties; leading the church prayer meeting.  During four long weeks he looked death in the face and was not afraid.  He put all aside when God called him.  At Kirksville, he was a never failing attendant on church and Sabbath school.  Locating in Huntsville, he united with the present church.  His pastor paid high  tribute to him, saying in part: "Since the day he came among us, he has conducted himself as a moral, clean, studious, manly man.  Though one thousand miles from home, he found no time to sow wild oats.  Manhood was his birthright and he did not sell it for a mess of pottage.  A northern man by birth, he did not run against the prejudices of his southern neighbors.  He was too manly for such pettiness.  Nor did he make waste upon the Old School physicians, some of who were the most sincere mourners at his bier.  What was the cause of the popular interest so marked in this young stranger?  It was the recognition of the worth of character.  We are a busy people but we have time to stand uncovered before a finished life."  Charles is buried in Ringgold County, Iowa in the Middle Fork Cemetery.

From "The History of the House of Ochiltrees" book.

I get so sad and lonesome but am looking forward for Earl and Mary before too long, I hope. You folks drive down and Arthur will show you pictures on the slide of Austria, Germany, Italy etc. We would all love to have you come.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Lot of love to all 3. Aunt Bessie.

1- Bessie Dot Miller (sister of Charles Zollman Miller), Beatrice Harrison, Carrie Martin (sister of Beatrice)

2- Bessie, Carrie, Beatrice (with hat at right), Joseph Martin (spouse of Carrie)

December 1961 letter re Head household in Canada including Wilson, Phyllis, Norman, Greggie, Renee