Interment: 11/23/25
Irvin Colloden Miller, Jr. was son of Irvin Colloden Miller, Sr., famous black actor, playwright, vaudeville show writer and producer, and Kathryn Althea Boyd, a famous black silent screen actress, whose father, Rev. Robert Allen Boyd was founder of the Nashville Globe, a black, weekly newspaper, and founder of the Baptist National Publishing Board.
Irvin, Jr. died of diphtheria at age 3, after which his mother was said to have taken up acting as a way to get her mind off of his death.
Irvin Colloden Miller, Jr. was son of Irvin Colloden Miller, Sr., famous black actor, playwright, vaudeville show writer and producer, and Kathryn Althea Boyd, a famous black silent screen actress, whose father, Rev. Robert Allen Boyd was founder of the Nashville Globe, a black, weekly newspaper, and founder of the Baptist National Publishing Board.
Irvin, Jr. died of diphtheria at age 3, after which his mother was said to have taken up acting as a way to get her mind off of his death.
Interment: 11/23/25
Irvin Colloden Miller, Jr. was son of Irvin Colloden Miller, Sr., famous black actor, playwright, vaudeville show writer and producer, and Kathryn Althea Boyd, a famous black silent screen actress, whose father, Rev. Robert Allen Boyd was founder of the Nashville Globe, a black, weekly newspaper, and founder of the Baptist National Publishing Board.
Irvin, Jr. died of diphtheria at age 3, after which his mother was said to have taken up acting as a way to get her mind off of his death.
Irvin Colloden Miller, Jr. was son of Irvin Colloden Miller, Sr., famous black actor, playwright, vaudeville show writer and producer, and Kathryn Althea Boyd, a famous black silent screen actress, whose father, Rev. Robert Allen Boyd was founder of the Nashville Globe, a black, weekly newspaper, and founder of the Baptist National Publishing Board.
Irvin, Jr. died of diphtheria at age 3, after which his mother was said to have taken up acting as a way to get her mind off of his death.
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