* * Charlie Brock Deposition - 1958 * *
Court case to prove relationship to Miss Ada Miller, Deceased 1940. Complainants Emory Dallas Miller and Benjamin A. Leach vs. Defendant Dr I. P. Carr, Nephew of Deceased.Reprinted from Roy Whitehead May 2001
Q. What is your Name?
A. Charlie Brock
Q. How Old are You?
A. 66
Q. How long have you known (Bud) H L Miller?
A. All My life
Q. Did you know his mother?
A. Yea - She was old man Waldo's wife
Q. How come she was old man Waldo's wife and Bud H L Millers Name was Miller?
A. She said my first man was Lawrence Miller, He is the Daddy of my four oldest Children.
Q. How old was you when you heard Mrs. Waldo say this?
A. That was in the spring of 1910, and I was borned in 1892
Q. Where was you when you heard her do this talking?
A. Bud Millers Home
Q. Did you hera her say where she was borned and raised?
A. Yes - She told me she was borned in Mississippi.
Q. Did you hear or know her full name?
A. Yea - She told me she was named after her mother, Caroline Susan Miller, she didn't change her name the first time she married, Her Fathers name was Robert A P Miller.
Q. Did you know any of her people?
A. She told me she had three brothers Robert, WM, and John.
Q. Did You know any of her first husband's people?
A. She tole me he had some brothers and sisters Named Howard Samuel, and sisters named Clementine and Ada
Q. Did you know her first Husband's Mother or Fathers Name.?
A. She said Everybody called her Grandma Clementine Miller. I think she said Lawrence's fathers Name was Erskine, She said Bud looked almost the same as his uncle Howard.
Signed Charlie Brock Affiant
STATE OF ARKANSAS
COUNTY OF CRAIGHEAD
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
Subscribed and sworn to in my presents, a Notary Public within and for the State and County mentioned above on this the 30th day of Dec. 1958
Signature unreadable
Notary Public
My Commission Exp: ___-'61
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