About the Miller Family

The Miller family starts with Joe and Rebecca Miller.  They both were from Georgia. however, the family shares a story about Rebecca being a small woman of African descent.  She remembered crossing the Red Sea in a ship to North America.  She was accompanied by a brother whom she never saw again after they arrived in America.

In 1880 the family was living in Tanyard, Pike, Alabama:

1. Joe Miller Jr. - 1863
2. William (Will) Miller - 1865
3. Noby (Novy) Miller - 1868
4. Sallie (Sally) Miller - 1874
5. Alex Miller - 1874
6. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Miller - 1878
7. Sarah Miller (no information) 

Joe & Sally (Johnson) Miller:

• Ry, Betie, Alex, Alto, Murphy; Minnie, Josie, Ernest & Jasper 

William (Will) & Lula Mae (Thornton) Miller:

• Arthur; Cora; Lonie; Alma; Jack; Louis; Willa Mae; Anna Lou; Ozie & Cahterine (Cassie)

Noby & Gus Copeland:

• William; Pearl, & Oscar.

Sallie & Leonidas B. Banks

• Early; Mae Eder; Rufus

Alex Miller: 

• Ethel.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) & Sam Wadsworth:

• Will; John; Mattie; Verga; Hutcher; Rosa Lee; Anna Mae; Lonie: Robert & Euguene
• They had a daughter who died in a fire as a little girl her name is unknown

Ethel Miller: 

• Linzy Mae; Haudie Mae; Maudie & Disie