From Proud Heritage – Vol. I (not currently in print), published by Dallas County Pioneer Association
William Brown Miller came to Texas from Alabama in 1849. He purchased 1,284 acres of land located on present Bonnie View Road near Kiest and built Millermore, the only remaining antebellum house still extant in Dallas, which is presently the showcase building at Old City Park. This house was the inspiration for the formation of the Dallas Heritage society and the cultural museum which is Old City Park.
W. B. Miller had eight or nine children by three wives. By Emma, ancestor of Lloyd Miller, he had four: William Brown, Jr., John Hickman, Charles and Minerva, John Hickman married, Charles and Minerva. John Hickman married Flora Bell Melone about 1880 and of their four children, only Lloyd Melone survived to adulthood. Flora Bell died in 1900 and John’s second wife, Kathrine Melone (Flora Bell’s sister), died in 1970 at age 93.
Lloyd Melone Miller, Sr. married Adilene Vandenbark in 1926, and both of them died in 1964. They had one son, Lloyd Melone Miller, Jr. born in 1931, who married Anne Smith in 1952, and they have one son, Mitchell Lloyd.
John Hickman Miller was a partner in Fife and Miller, a buggy sales agency located at the corner of Elm and Record Streets. About 1915 Henry Ford asked them to be a dealer for his new automobile; however, they didn’t think it would sell and refused. A few years later John H. became a real estate and insurance agent. His son, Lloyd Sr., was an agent and later branch manager for Southwestern Life Insurance Company.
Lloyd Miller, Jr. owns and operates Lloyd Miller Insurance Agency.
John Hickman Miller and Katherine are buried in Oakland cemetery, and Lloyd Miller, Sr., and Adilene are buried in Restland Cemetery.
By Lloyd M. Miller,
Dallas TX
