MILLER, Mrs. Mary, Beeville Bee, Friday, 12 Feb 1904:

Mrs. Mary MILLER, one of the oldest residents of the section, died on Friday evening 
at the residence of her son. W. J. Miller, lacking but a few months of being seventy-seven 
years of age. 

She was born in Nachitoches, LA, in 1827, being the daughter of Isaac M. CHARLES, 
one of the Austin Colonists, who settled in the Brazos valley in 1829. The paternal grant 
of a league and labor is still extent and constitutes one of the boundaries between 
Waller and Fort Bend counties. After the death of the head of the family, shortly after the 
war of independence, the family moved to Lavaca county, where in 1844 she was united 
in marriage to J. F. Miller, and moved to San Patricio county in 1850, afterwards to Nueces 
county where was reared a family of nine, six sons and three daughters. 

In 1887, Mrs. Miller moved to Beeville and has lately made her home with her eldest son. 
Of her children, three sons and two daughters survive her. Her funeral occurred on Saturday 
afternoon, the remains being interred in the old cemetery, religious services being conducted 
by Rev. J. T. R Miller of the Methodist church of which organization she had been a member 
since 1860.