Felix G. Miller

As printed in 1881

FELIX G. MILLER.

Felix G. Miller was born November 10, 1822, in Ray county, Missouri. He is a son of Sebourn J. Miller, who was a Ray county pioneer, having immigrated to this county from Tennessee, in 1819. He was born near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1794, and died in Ray county in August, 1837. He was for many years a justice of the Ray county court, and held other offices of trust and profit, conferred by the suffrages of his fellow citizens. Our subject was reared on a farm. His education is limited to that of the common schools, but he is a man of strong common sense, good judgment, and general information. He has always been a farmer, and now owns about 700 acres of excellent land, all of which is well improved and in a high state of cultivation. During Mr. Miller's boyhood, Ray county was almost a wilderness, very sparsely settled, without mills, markets were distant, and the country in many places unreclaimed. He has lived, however, to acquire a competency, to see his county advance to a position scarcely second to any in the state, and himself to partake of the comforts and advantages of modern improvements. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and also of the Masonic fraternity since the year 1849. He was married to Martha A. Woodward, of Ray county, but a native of Kentucky. Some years after the death of his first wife, April 30, 1850, he was again married to Sophronia Hill, of Ray county, who was born in Tennessee. They have three children: Ollie, wife of John C. Brown, of Richmond; Ava, wife of Peter Trimble, of Richmond, and Winfield, a merchant in Knoxville, Ray county.

As printed in History of Ray County, Mo. (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.