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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.
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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.

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