Robert Elliot Miller |
| Posted 2018-06-30 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Thursday, April 24, 1947, page 1, column 4 Robert Miller's Services Set Here Friday Robert E. Miller, aged 73, member of the pioneer family that founded Miller Valley, died Monday in Wickenburg. Funeral services will be held in Wickenbirg tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock, following which the body will be brought to Prescott and services will be held here at 2 o'clock in the Lester Ruffner Funeral Home chapel. Burial will be in the old Miller and Simmons family cemetery in Miller Valley. Mr. Miller was born in the old home in Miller Valley August 30, 1873. He was the son of Samuel and Mary Sanders Miller, early day settlers in this area. He had been a rancher in the Hillside, Santa Maria and Wenden districts. He had recently sold the Wenden ranch and moved to Wickenburg. Mr. Miller is survived by his wife, Ila, three brothers and a sister: Sam, of Lynwood, Calif.; John, of Colorado; Henry, of Miller Valley, and Mrs. Hattie Simmons, of Lynwood. -------------------------------------------------- Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona Friday, April 25, 1947, page 9, column 2 Robert Miller, Yavapai County Pioneer, Dies Prescott - Apr. 25 - Funeral services will be held here this afternoon for Robert E. Miller, aged 73, who died Monday in Wickenburg. He was a Yavapai county pioneer. Services were to be held at Wickenburg in the morning. Burial will take place in the old family cemetery of the Miller and Simmons families in Miller Valley. Mr. Miller was the son of Sam Miller, one of the founders of Miller Valley, a suburb of Prescott, and his wife, Mary Sanders Miller. He was born in Miller Valley Aug. 30, 1873. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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