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Martha Josephine Miller Wagner Daughter of Dr. Lorenzo John and Martha Lois Bird Miller and wife to Dr. Jacob Adam Wagner

The third son of Charles and Anna Miller was my great-grandfather Lorenzo John Miller who was born on June 7, 1828 and died on July 17, 1896. A separate section will be devoted to Lorenzo John Miller (See chapter Lorenzo John Miller).

The fourth son of Charles and Anna was Charles K. Miller who was born on September 7, 1832 and died on December 31, 1913. Little is known of this son.

Charles and Anna’s only daughter, Lucinda Ann, was born around 1838. She married William Suiter, son of Alexander and Catherine Suiter, on March 16,1854. The 1860 Tazewell County census recorded three children of Lucinda Ann and William Suiter: Charles P.A. Suiter, age 4; Paris Suiter, age 3; and, Isabell Suiter, age 1. The sixth and youngest child of Charles and Anna was a son, Alexander Fleming Miller, born on July 2, 1841. He served in the Confederate Army with Company F 8 th Regiment, Cavalry Brigade, known as the Bland Rangers, under the command of Col. William Neal Harmon. He was wounded at Flat Top Mountain in Mercer County, West Virginia. On July 2, 1864 he married Nancy Jane Hamilton in Bland County. Reverend Lorenzo John Miller, his brother, performed the ceremony. Their home was on the north side of Big Walker Mountain where they raised three children: George E. was born April 15, 1864, married Ella Hoge, and died on June 15, 1933; Charles Winton was born on September 29, 1865 and died on December 31, 1867; and, Malissa Rose was born on January 17, 1869, married Samuel Price Newberry on August 26, 1886, and died on April 30, 1940.

Alexander died in 1928 and his wife Jane died in 1930. They are buried in the family cemetery on Walkers Creek.

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