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Several letters & post cards to Dorothy about 1943

This was in Relative Guidelines ADAIR notes, June 1992. It was probably written by Naomi.

Read more: Letters 1972-1975

Dr. Charles Zollman Miller spent all his early life in Ringgold County, Iowa. In 1900 he graduated from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri and located for practice, soon after at Huntsville, Alabama, where he remained until his death, which occurred at Huntsville, after a six weeks' illness with typhoid fever in the 26th year of his age. "His death is sad, not only in the ending of a happy and worthy existence or in the grief brought to his relatives and friends, but in the bright hopes cut down. He was shortly to have returned to the north and gone into partnership with his brother at Centerville. He was also to have been married in the month in which his death occurred, to Miss Beatrice Harrison, an estimable young lady of Huntsville, a cousin of the late President Harrison. Miss Harrison and her sister, Mrs. Carrie Martin and her brother-in-law, P.R. Hunt, accompanied the remains to his home at Redding with his father, Horatio Thompson Miller and his brother-in-law, R.J. Loutzenhiser and his brother Dr. William B. Miller of Centerville, who attended him in his last illness."

Dr. Miller came of sturdy Scotch-Irish stock. He was robust in health, vigorous in intellect, full of the energy that compels success and morally pure. He had long been spiritually earnest. When he became a Christian, he did so, fully, and performed all his Christian duties; leading the church prayer meeting. During four long weeks he looked death in the face and was not afraid. He put all aside when God called him. At Kirksville, he was a never failing attendant on church and Sabbath school. Locating in Huntsville, he united with the present church. His pastor paid high tribute to him, saying in part: "Since the day he came among us, he has conducted himself as a moral, clean, studious, manly man. Though one thousand miles from home, he found no time to sow wild oats. Manhood was his birthright and he did not sell it for a mess of pottage. A northern man by birth, he did not run against the prejudices of his southern neighbors. He was too manly for such pettiness. Nor did he make waste upon the Old School physicians, some of who were the most sincere mourners at his bier. What was the cause of the popular interest so marked in this young stranger? It was the recognition of the worth of character. We are a busy people but we have time to stand uncovered before a finished life." Charles is buried in Ringgold County, Iowa in the Middle Fork Cemetery.

From "The History of the House of Ochiltrees" book.

1- Bessie Dot Miller (sister of Charles Zollman Miller), Beatrice Harrison, Carrie Martin (sister of Beatrice)

2- Bessie, Carrie, Beatrice (with hat at right), Joseph Martin (spouse of Carrie)

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