Occupation: Farmer
MO d/c 26556
(Contributed by Pam Witherow)
J. A. MILLER, INJURED JULY 28, DIES TODAY
Brashear Man Lay Under Sled In Field 27 Hours.
Special to The Daily Express.
Brashear, Mo., Aug. 10. — J. A. Miller, 87, died at his home here this morning at 7:15 o'clock from injuries and exposure suffered July 28 when accidentally pinned beneath a sled on which he was hauling some posts and wire. He lay in a field 72 hours before a searching party discovered him.
In his struggle to get from beneath the sled, he had torn his shirt from his body and was badly sunburned. There were two severe bruise on one leg but no bones were broken.
The funeral is to be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Methodist Church here, conducted by the Rev. B. A. Wagenknecht, and burial will be made in the Brashear Cemetery. His body will lie in state at the Easley Funeral Home until time for the funeral. Pallbearers will be Charles Harbur, Ed Stanbaugh, Jesse Scott, E. M. Payne, J. B. Ludden and John W. Gardner.
Mr. Miller, whose full name was John Adam Miller, was born in Ogle County, Illinois, Sept. 9, 1855, a son of J. A. and Pamelia Clark Miller. He came to Missouri with his parent in 1861 and they settled on a farm in the Sabbath Home vicinity. He had lived the remainder of his Iife in the Brashear vicinity, moving from farm to town three years ago.
He was married Feb. 16, 1879, to Miss Ellen Mauck and five children were born. His wife died Nov. 25, 1909, and he was married in 1915 to Miss Rosa Leisure, who died June 18, 1941.
Surviving him are two sons, Earl Miller, Wheatland, Wyo., and Pearl Miller Hurdland, Mo.; three daughters, Mrs. Cora Damerell, Sacramento. Calif.; Mrs. Maud Pollock, Kirksville, and Mrs. Mae Tate, Glenvo, Wyo., four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Martha Holloway, Barnsdall, Okla.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 10 Aug 1942, Mon • Page 1, Column 8
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
MO d/c 26556
(Contributed by Pam Witherow)
J. A. MILLER, INJURED JULY 28, DIES TODAY
Brashear Man Lay Under Sled In Field 27 Hours.
Special to The Daily Express.
Brashear, Mo., Aug. 10. — J. A. Miller, 87, died at his home here this morning at 7:15 o'clock from injuries and exposure suffered July 28 when accidentally pinned beneath a sled on which he was hauling some posts and wire. He lay in a field 72 hours before a searching party discovered him.
In his struggle to get from beneath the sled, he had torn his shirt from his body and was badly sunburned. There were two severe bruise on one leg but no bones were broken.
The funeral is to be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Methodist Church here, conducted by the Rev. B. A. Wagenknecht, and burial will be made in the Brashear Cemetery. His body will lie in state at the Easley Funeral Home until time for the funeral. Pallbearers will be Charles Harbur, Ed Stanbaugh, Jesse Scott, E. M. Payne, J. B. Ludden and John W. Gardner.
Mr. Miller, whose full name was John Adam Miller, was born in Ogle County, Illinois, Sept. 9, 1855, a son of J. A. and Pamelia Clark Miller. He came to Missouri with his parent in 1861 and they settled on a farm in the Sabbath Home vicinity. He had lived the remainder of his Iife in the Brashear vicinity, moving from farm to town three years ago.
He was married Feb. 16, 1879, to Miss Ellen Mauck and five children were born. His wife died Nov. 25, 1909, and he was married in 1915 to Miss Rosa Leisure, who died June 18, 1941.
Surviving him are two sons, Earl Miller, Wheatland, Wyo., and Pearl Miller Hurdland, Mo.; three daughters, Mrs. Cora Damerell, Sacramento. Calif.; Mrs. Maud Pollock, Kirksville, and Mrs. Mae Tate, Glenvo, Wyo., four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Martha Holloway, Barnsdall, Okla.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 10 Aug 1942, Mon • Page 1, Column 8
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
Occupation: Farmer
MO d/c 26556
(Contributed by Pam Witherow)
J. A. MILLER, INJURED JULY 28, DIES TODAY
Brashear Man Lay Under Sled In Field 27 Hours.
Special to The Daily Express.
Brashear, Mo., Aug. 10. — J. A. Miller, 87, died at his home here this morning at 7:15 o'clock from injuries and exposure suffered July 28 when accidentally pinned beneath a sled on which he was hauling some posts and wire. He lay in a field 72 hours before a searching party discovered him.
In his struggle to get from beneath the sled, he had torn his shirt from his body and was badly sunburned. There were two severe bruise on one leg but no bones were broken.
The funeral is to be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Methodist Church here, conducted by the Rev. B. A. Wagenknecht, and burial will be made in the Brashear Cemetery. His body will lie in state at the Easley Funeral Home until time for the funeral. Pallbearers will be Charles Harbur, Ed Stanbaugh, Jesse Scott, E. M. Payne, J. B. Ludden and John W. Gardner.
Mr. Miller, whose full name was John Adam Miller, was born in Ogle County, Illinois, Sept. 9, 1855, a son of J. A. and Pamelia Clark Miller. He came to Missouri with his parent in 1861 and they settled on a farm in the Sabbath Home vicinity. He had lived the remainder of his Iife in the Brashear vicinity, moving from farm to town three years ago.
He was married Feb. 16, 1879, to Miss Ellen Mauck and five children were born. His wife died Nov. 25, 1909, and he was married in 1915 to Miss Rosa Leisure, who died June 18, 1941.
Surviving him are two sons, Earl Miller, Wheatland, Wyo., and Pearl Miller Hurdland, Mo.; three daughters, Mrs. Cora Damerell, Sacramento. Calif.; Mrs. Maud Pollock, Kirksville, and Mrs. Mae Tate, Glenvo, Wyo., four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Martha Holloway, Barnsdall, Okla.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 10 Aug 1942, Mon • Page 1, Column 8
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
MO d/c 26556
(Contributed by Pam Witherow)
J. A. MILLER, INJURED JULY 28, DIES TODAY
Brashear Man Lay Under Sled In Field 27 Hours.
Special to The Daily Express.
Brashear, Mo., Aug. 10. — J. A. Miller, 87, died at his home here this morning at 7:15 o'clock from injuries and exposure suffered July 28 when accidentally pinned beneath a sled on which he was hauling some posts and wire. He lay in a field 72 hours before a searching party discovered him.
In his struggle to get from beneath the sled, he had torn his shirt from his body and was badly sunburned. There were two severe bruise on one leg but no bones were broken.
The funeral is to be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Methodist Church here, conducted by the Rev. B. A. Wagenknecht, and burial will be made in the Brashear Cemetery. His body will lie in state at the Easley Funeral Home until time for the funeral. Pallbearers will be Charles Harbur, Ed Stanbaugh, Jesse Scott, E. M. Payne, J. B. Ludden and John W. Gardner.
Mr. Miller, whose full name was John Adam Miller, was born in Ogle County, Illinois, Sept. 9, 1855, a son of J. A. and Pamelia Clark Miller. He came to Missouri with his parent in 1861 and they settled on a farm in the Sabbath Home vicinity. He had lived the remainder of his Iife in the Brashear vicinity, moving from farm to town three years ago.
He was married Feb. 16, 1879, to Miss Ellen Mauck and five children were born. His wife died Nov. 25, 1909, and he was married in 1915 to Miss Rosa Leisure, who died June 18, 1941.
Surviving him are two sons, Earl Miller, Wheatland, Wyo., and Pearl Miller Hurdland, Mo.; three daughters, Mrs. Cora Damerell, Sacramento. Calif.; Mrs. Maud Pollock, Kirksville, and Mrs. Mae Tate, Glenvo, Wyo., four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Martha Holloway, Barnsdall, Okla.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 10 Aug 1942, Mon • Page 1, Column 8
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
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