REVA, Mrs. Marion Barkley, and her husband live on a farm in the eastern part of Ottawa County. Their son, Ronnie, his wife Carol, and two chudren, Roger and Mike, live at Kanorado, Kansas, where Ronnie teaches school. TED with his wife, Pearl, and daughter, Brenda, live near Longford. They have two other children, Barbara, Mrs. Keith Hardesty. Her husband and four children, Sheila, Terry, Saundra and Orin, live at Clifton; Stuart with his wife, Joyce, lives in Manhattan. BESS, Mrs. Merle Neaderhiser, her husband and daughter, Pamela, live on a farm known in former years as the ''LeRoy Owsley" place. Lucy passed away in 1936; Frank remarried in October, 1938, to Mrs. Estella Emrich and they lived at the farm home until Frank passed away in September, 1952. Frank was well known all over Ottawa County. He was often heard to tell how, when they came to Kansas in May, he stood on the back of the train looking at the valley as the train traveled from Solomon to Lindsey up the Solomon Valley. He thought it the most beautiful and wonderful place he had ever seen. He never felt any differently; he truly loved Kansas and Ottawa County and worked diligently through the years for progress both for his family and the good of the community. THE GEORGE A  MILLER FAMILY HISTORY By Mrs. Ruth Waite George Adam Miller, one of ten ˇchildren of Nathan B. and Catherine Ann Nuss Miller, was born February 14,1858, near Mainville, Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1878, as a young man, he came to Kansas to be near a cousin, Harvey D. Miller. At this time there was no railroad up  the Solomon Valley so he had to walk from Solomon to near where Lindsey now is. There was no bridge to cross the river until he reached Darling Point, as it was in flood time and the river was too high to cross at Bennington. He spent his first night in the Henry Dresher home a short distance northeast of Lindsey and worked there a short time. When he first came to Bennington he worked for Christian Nelson who then lived where the John Berkleys now live. He also worked for a time for his cousin, Harvey Miller, who then owned the present Hare farm one mile north of Bennington. On April 5,1883, he was married to Christina S. Constable, one of thirteen children of Alfred.and Mary Rager Constable. To this union four children were born, all near Bennington: Alfred Ray who now lives in Minneapolis. He grew to manhood near Bennington, attended grade school at Sand Creek and then went to Kansas Wesleyan in Salina Here he met and married Neva Mabelle Sernans, a daughter of Solomon Semans, a pioneer Methodist minister. They had two children: Riley, now of Lakewood, Ohio, who married Jean Fidler and Mrs. Cleveland T. Martin (Geraldine) of Topeka. They have one daughter; Esther Catherine Miller who now lives in Salina was the second child of George and Christina Miller. She attended Sand Creek school also; George LeRoy was their second son. He married Anna Helen Foster, a daughter of Alva and Mary Walker Foster. They have four children, ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Phillip, Chester and Helen all live in Texas; Phillip in LaMarque and Chester and Helen in Galveston. Myrna (Mrs. Rogert Stevenson) and family live in Memphis, Tennessee. George and Anna make their home in Moody House, a Methodist home for the aged in Galveston. Ruth Gertrude Miller, the second daughter of George and Christina Miller attended grade school at Sleepy Hollow and high school in Bennington. She was married to Earl A. Collins, a son of James and Julia Wolfe Collins. They had one daughter, Phyllis Jean, who married Raymond Watts, son of Harry and Bertha Watts. Phyllis and Raymond had one son, Curtis LeRoy. They live in Bennington; Ruth married Horace A. Waite in February, 1965. Their home is also in Bennington. Mr, Miller worked quite extensively at the carpenter trade for about six years. He helped build the Bennington Presbyterian Church which still stands, the Steam Flour Mill which was later changed into an elevator and finally burned, also many of the older residences of the town. He then moved to the farm and continued to farm until 1930 when he and his wife and Esther moved to town. They were members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Miller passed away in July of 1940 at the age of 82, and his widow died in September of 1951, aged 89. They were laid to rest in the Bennington Cemetery RETURN NEXT