6430. Kemp Davidson Miller
Family info from Larry Robertson's file.
6431. Ada Litton Miller
Family info from Larry Robertson's file.
Lived at Clinchport in 1998.
Scott Co Marriage Records 4-75-26.
6433. Della Lee Miller
Family info from Larry Robertson's file.
From Kenneth Herron. (He had date of death as 1985, but Larry
Robertson
corrected to 1993)
Scott Co Marriage Records 4-76-19.
6434. Bonnie Miller
Scott Co Marriage Records 5-72-7.
Family info from Larry Robertson's file.
Lived at Belleview, Fla in 1998.
"Scott Co, Va, and Its People, 1814-1991," p. 223.
"Scott Co, VA, and its People, Vol II, 1814-1998," p. 24.
Tech Sgt as flight engineer on a B-29 in US AirForce an was in
bombing raids over Japan in WW II. He reenlisted in 1946.
6435. Pearl Estella Miller
She lived at Kingsport, TN, and was a member of Morrison City
Christian Church.
4 g-ch. (from her obituary)
Stories & family info from Larry Robertson'sfiles.
PEARL WAS BORN IN A LITTLE HOUSE "ACROSS THE CREEK FROM
CLINCHPORT". IT IS NOT STANDING TODAY. THIS HOUSE ONCE STOOD IN WHAT
TODAY IS THE LAST GROUPOF HOUSES ACROSS THE CREEK (AS YOU STAND
LOOKING ACROSS THE CREEK. IF YOU WERE STANDING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF
THESE THREE HOUSES, THE FOURTH HOUSE WOULD HAVE STOOD ON THE RIGHT,
IN A SPOT WHERE A HOUSE OBVIOUSLY ONCE STOOD. BONNIE WASALSO BORN IN
THIS HOUSE.
KEMP, ADA, LELIA, AND DELLA WERE BORN IN A HOUSE DOWN THE HOLLOW
SOUTH OF MILLER'S CHAPEL. THE HOUSE SAT ON THE RIGHT OF THE CREEK JUST
AFTER IT TURNED SHARPLY RIGHT AND WENT UP THE NARROW HOLLOW TOWARD
MILLER'S CHAPEL CHRISTIAN CHURCH. HENRY'S MOM, ELIZABETH EDWARDS WAS
MARRIED TO SAMUEL WALKER AT THE TIME AND LIVED THE NEXT HOUSE UP THE
CREEK IN THE FLAT.
RUFUS AND DENVER WERE BORN IN THE "OLD HOUSE" THAT STOOD WHERE
HENRY AND ROSA GREW OLD. THEY BUILT A NEW HOUSE IN 1943.
Source, birth date :
"BirthCertificate of Pearl Estille Miller," 14-SEP-1914. Fidelity:
Original. Suretylevel: Reliable. Pearl Robertson, 343 May St.,
Kingsport,
Tennessee.
Robert Kendall "Robbie" Robertson
Stories from Larry Robertson's file.
KENDALL WAS 5'7 1/2" TALL WITH DARK BROWNHAIR UNTIL DEATH AND GRAY
EYES. HE WEIGHED ABOUT 150 POUNDS. HIS SKIN WASMEDIUM LIGHT, BUT IT
TANNED READILY.
KENDALL WAS BORN IN KNOXVILLE. I THINKTHEY LIVED IN A PART OF TOWN
CALLED LAWNSDALE.
WHEN KENDALL WAS YOUNG HE WASAPPARENTLY "RUN OFF" FROM
HOME, TO FEND FOR HIMSELF. THE FAMILY LIVED ON 5THNORTH IN
MORRISTOWN.
HE DIDN'T GET ALONG WELL AT ALL WITH GRANT. THEY LIVEDON GRAVEL HILL
AND HAD 2 COWS, SOME CHICHENS AND HOGS. WHEN ONE OF THE COWSWENT
DRY,
THERE WASN'T ENOUGH MILK FOR ALL THE KIDS, SO THEY WENT AND BOUGHT
FROM
MRS. FELKNER.
WHEN SATURDAY CAME THE ALL WANTED TO GO SEE THE LATESTWESTERN
MOVIE, BUT THEY HAD NO MONEY. BILL WOULD FIND A WASH TUB WITH THE
BOTTOM OUT AND GO TO THE POND AND CATCH GOLD FISH MINNOWS. HE WOULD
WATCH FORONE IN THE SHALLOWS AND THROW THE TUB OVER IT. HE WOULD GO
FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE TO SELL IT FOR 5 CENTS. SOME TIMES GIB MORRISON,
WHO OWNED THE TABLE TOP COMPANY WOULD COME BY AND GIVE THEM A DIME TO
GET IN TO SEE THE SHOW.
LONNIE, ADA, AND KENDALL STAYED WITH FLOYD SOME WHEN THEY FIRST CAME
TO KINGSPORT.
WHEN ELIZA LEFT GRANT, SHE WENT TO LIVE WITH HER MOMMA, MARTHA LAURA
FLETCHER, BESSIE POTTER, ALFRED POTTER AND JOHN FLETCHER. THEY LIVED
AT THE KIRKPATRICKFARM, A BIG TWO STORY HOUSE ABOUT 3-4 MILES OUT OF
RUSSELLVILLE. GO ABOUT 2 MILES OUT OF RUSSELVILLE TOWARD GREENEVILLE
TO WHERE THE OLD ROAD TURNS TO RIGHT, TURN ONTO IT. THE HOUSE IS
ABOUT
1 1/2 MILES ON RIGHT. IT HAS LARGE BOXWOODS. THEN THE ENTIRE GROUP
MOVED TO A TO THE MIDDLE OF RUSSELLVILLE ON 3RDSTREET, JUST OVER FROM
THE METHODIST CHURCH.
KENDALL WENT TO KINGSPORT FROM MORRISTOWN IN 1928 ACCORDING TO BILL.
HIS FIRST JOB IN KINGSPORT WAS A TYPEWRITER REPAIRMAN FOR KINGSPORT
OFFICE SUPPLY. HE MUST HAVE CAME TO KINGSPORT WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 15
YEARS
OLD OR YOUNGER. HE ALSO WORKED AT TENNESSEE EASTMAN COMPANY IN THE
YARN
PLANT. HE WAS AN INSPECTOR IN SPINNING. HE MUST HAVE WORKED AT
EASTMAN
ABOUT EIGHT YEARS. HE MARRIED PEARL WHEN HE WAS 26 YEARS OLD.
ON DECEMBER 8, 1941,THE DAY AFTER PEARL HARBOR KENDALL JOINED THE
U.S. NAVY. HE SERVED ABOARD A TROOP CARRIER IN THE PACIFIC AS A
GUNNERS
MATE.ON ONE OCCASION, HE SHOT SO MANY JAPANESE PLANES OUT OF THE
SKY
THAT THE CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP TURNED TO HIS NEXT IN COMMAND AND TOLD
HIM
TO GO AND CONGRADULATE "ROBERTSON" ON HIS MARKSMANSHIP.
AS THE SECOND IN COMMAND TURNED TOPASS ALONG THIS DUTY TO ANOTHER,
THE
CAPTAIN TURNED AGAIN TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT "HE" WAS THE ONE THAT
SHOULD
DELIEVER THE COMPLIMENT!!!
MANY TIMES THEKAMAKAZE PILOTS WOULD COME IN AT THE SHIP FROM THE SUN
SO THE GUNNERS COULDN'TSEE THE PLANES TO SHOOT THEM DOWN. IF HE
COULDN'T SEE THE PLANE, HE WOULD SOMETIMES SHOOT AT THE PLANES SHADOW
AND
BOUNCE THE BULLETS OF THE WATER TO KNOCK THE PLANES DOWN. MANY TIMES
THE
PLANES WERE SHOOT DOWN AND HIT IN THE WATER JUST BESIDE THE SHIP!!!
IN 1943 JUST AFTER LEAVING THE BOMBAY INDIA HARBOR WITH SOME WOUNDED
TROOPS ON THE WAY BACK TO THE U.S. , THE SHIP THAT HE WASON, "THE
HERMITAGE", WAS ATTACKED BY JAPANESE KAMAKAZE PLANES AND BOMBERS. THE
SHIP WAS HIT AND KENDALL WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AND THROWN INTO THE
OCEAN.SHRAPNAL HAD STRUCK HIM IN THE HEAD IN THE AREA OF HIS EYES.
HE
WAS DRAGGEDFROM THE WATER BY ANOTHER SHIP, AND HE WOKE UP IN THE
HOSPITAL IN LONG BEACH,CALIFORNIA. THERE WERE FEW OTHER SURVIVERS.
HIS EYES WERE PERMANENTLY DAMAGED TO THE POINT THEY COULD NOT BE
CORRECTED BY GLASSES. HE MAY HAVE HAD DOUBLEVISION. HE COULD ONLY
RECOGNIZE A PERSON FROM A SHORT DISTANCE, BUT HE COULD THREAD A FISH
HOOK BY PLACING THE THE LINE AND THE HOOK ON HIS TOUNGE TO "FEEL" THE
THREAD. HE COULD NOT SEE GOOD ENOUGH TO DRIVE A CAR.
ONCE IN A POOLHALL ON FIVE POINTS, I WATCHED AS KENDALL MADE A BET
ON A GAME OF POOL. KENDALL AND TWO OTHER MEN BET THEIR ENTIRE PAY
CHE
6436. Rufus Miller
Family info from Larry Robertson's file.
Lived at Gate City in 1994, 96, 98, 2002.
Leanne Templeton's wedding announcement gave g-parents as Rufus and
Anna Miller, and the late R.J. Miller.
"Scott Co and its People," p. 216. 2 marriages to R. J. Miller and
Rufus Miller.
Lived in Gate City in 1974.
6437. William Denver Miller
Family info from Larry Robertson's file.
Lived at Kingsport in 1998.
Lived at Kingsport in 1998.
Lived in Slushing, Mich in 2003.
6439. Della Estelle "Billye" Walker
Address: PO Box 357, Loudon, TN 37774.
She is doing family research.
LOUDON,Tenn. - Della E. Walker "Billye" Snow, 74, passed away
Thursday (Aug. 7, 2003) at her home.
Born Dec. 31, 1928 in Big Stone Gap, Va., she was a graduate of
Dobyns-Bennett High School and the Whitney School of Business.
She served several years in the Knox County Circuit Court Clerk's
office. Later she managed the bookkeeping responsibilities for the
Snow Brothers Ford Tractor Co. She then went on to spend 33 years in
the school photography business.
Following retirement, Billye enjoyed crafts, painting, and reading and
was an avid collector of porcelain dolls. She faithfully served as the
treasurer for the Fooshee Chapel and Cemetery as well as serving in
many capacities for the Speak(e)(s) Family organization and
convention.
Billye served as the genealogistfor Loudon County and on the board of
the Loudon County Library System. Shewas frequently spotted in the
Loudon Library and the McClung room of the KnoxCounty Library where
she lovingly researched genealogy records for the families not only
from Loudon but all across the U.S. to trace their family tree.She
was instrumental in gathering information and writing family history
for the Loudon and Roane County Heritage Books.
Billye was preceded in death byher parents, William Lee and Myrtle
Cora King Walker; husband, Charles Jackson Snow; brothers, J.C. and
Clyde Walker; sisters, Lillian Walker Duncan and Bonnie Walker Kerns.
Survivors include her daughters and son-in-law, Lois Snowand Robert
Harrison, Suzie Miller; son and daughter-in-law, Bryan and Pam Snow,
all of Loudon; grandchildren, Dustin Miller, Soddy Daisy, Jacob Miller
and Walker Snow Harrison, both of Loudon; sisters, Norma Hurst
Simpson, Anderson, S.C., and Lucille Walker Foster, Freehold, N.J.;
sister-in-law, Myra Roberts Walker, Slushing, Mich.; several nieces
and nephews; special friends, Tammy Smallen and L.V. and Barbara Ward.
Family members will greet friends from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at
McGill-Karnes Funeral Home, Loudon.
Funeral services and interment shall be private.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Billye Snow Memorial Genealogical
and Historical Fund for the Loudon Public Library,c/o Charles Bettis,
First National Bank, P.O. Box 469, Loudon, Tenn.
6440. Bonnie H. Walker
She was O.M. Kern's second marriage; not sure which children were
step-children.
Lived at Sullivan Gardens, Kingsport, TN. She spent most of her life
in the Kinsport area. She had been a resident of Asbury Center for the
past two months. 14 g-ch, 27 g-g-ch, 1 g-g-g-ch. (from her obituary)
6445. Walter Kenneth Miller
Scott Co Marriage Records 5-7-30. She was wd (Vergie Spears.) Both
lived at Spears Ferry.
Lived at Clinchport in 1997.
She was not named as a survivor in Pearl Harkleroad's obituary Dec
1997.
6446. William I. "Bill" Miller
He lived at Kingsport, TN, after 1950. He worked for Mead Paper Co
for 11 yrs and retired from the tool and dye department of Raytheon Co
in Bristol after 22 yrs.
He retired in 1975. Surv by 1 dau, 3 g-sons (named). (from his
obituary)
Scott Co Marriage Index 6-22-32.
Lived in Kingsport in 1995, 98, 99.