* * Ira Isabelle Null Miller Deposition - 1959 * *
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. Notes in parenthesis from Roy.
I, Ira Isabelle Miller was born August 31 1880. (Day unreadable but, Sue, Bell Null's daughter in law said this was the date on her death certificate) I became the wife of Henry L. Miller on the 19th day of August 1897. We were married at W. W. Miller's house in Byrds, Missouri by Rev. William King. We lived together until death parted us in May 1957. (According to their marriage certificate, they were married in Byrds, MO. That is in Dunklin County! I have seen it called Arbyrds as well; the name may have been changed.)
We was born to us a family of four boys and two girls. The oldest child, a girl, died at the age of one year. We lived together fifty-nine years. My husband set his age back four years because he was afraid that my mother would object to our marriage.
My husband's father's name was Lawrance Miller, Lawrance's father was Erskine Miller. Lawrance's mother was Margaret Miller. My husband called her Grand Ma Clementine. My husband's father's brothers were: Howard Miller. Samuel Miller. My husband had some Aunts: Hibernia, Ann, Ada, and Clementine. They were aunts of my husband. I heard him speak of aunt Ada a lot. She was the youngest. I have also heard him speak of Lawrence Carr. He and Lawrance were about the same age and they were cousins. They played together when they were young. My husband left Mississippi at an early age. Bob Willmouth, Andrew Leech, and my husband, H.L. Miller, came to Arkansas together. They came to Shaw Farm. He and my family lived there. None of the three boys were married at that time, then after me and Bud married, we went to Jackson Island, down to Edewaus, Ark. My husband, Willie Furgeson, Charley Furgeson, Charley Fitzjewell, Bob Willmouth, Frank Freeman, Jim Roberts, Charley Boyd all worked in timber. Bob Willmouth stayed at my house while he was working in the timber. I well remember Bob Willmouth and Charley Fitzjewell and one night at my house they were afraid of someone and I know Bob Willmouth knows all about my husband's people.
My husband, H. L. Miller, mother's name was Caroline Susan Miller. She was named after her mother Caroline Susan Miller. Robert A. P. Miller was the husband of old Caroline Susan Miller. My husband's mother, Caroline Susanna Miller was raised by her uncle, Abram Miller. She said he raised her and Robert, Wm John, tho my husband had a Uncle George, Bob, Bill, James, John Miller, because they have all visited me in my husband's home and he called them uncle. They all came from the State of Mississippi. They were all of Indian Descent. I was at the home of my husband's Uncle Bob Miller when he died. I heard him tell XX his daughter, Lou, that he was a Indian and that his daddy's name was Tobby Tubby, tho he was raised under the name of Miller and I believe Ike Mangram was there and heard him too. I can't never forget that night we got scared of ghost. I have heard my husband and his Uncle Bob Miller call each other Bobby Tubby. My husband's mother and father Lawrance Miller and Caroline Susan Miller they had borned them four children: Donney, Martha, And Henry … and Susan M Miller. When Lawrance died Susan took the children and went back to her uncle, Abram Miller, the man that raised her. She stayed with him, her and her children until she met James Waldo, then she married him, they left Mississippi and came to Arkansas and lived there until she died in about 1910.(Date unreadable, and there is no record of Caroline Susan's Death, but I have her in a census record with Jim Waldo and children in 1900 at Craighead Co, Ark.)
Signed Ira Isabelle Miller
County of Dunklin
State of Missouri
Subscribed to and Sworn before me. This 15th day of January 1959. A Notary Public for and in the County of Dunklin.
Palestine Wilty
Notary Public
My comm. Exp. Sep 16, 1961
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