Person:Ervin Miller (2)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Ervin Benson Miller (1815-1856) married Sarah Alford in 1836. They apparently remained in the Lick Creek area for a time, but eventually settled on Sewell Creek in Fayette County. They had four sons: Henry Logan Miller, a Confederate soldier who died of a fever during the Civil War; James William Miller, who owned the Hotel Miller, a two-story frame building on the court-house square in Hinton that opened around 1894; John Alexander Miller, a merchant in the town of Ashbury; and Olin Benson Miller (1851-1903), a merchant in the town of Alderson. They also had a daughter, Margaret Ann Miller, who married Dr. Samuel Williams, a distinguished physician and surgeon originally from Putnam County, Virginia. Williams, a short man who weighed 350 pounds, had been educated at the University of Virginia and the University of South Carolina. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he moved to the town of New Richmond (now Sandstone, West Virginia), located at the mouth of Lick Creek, a few miles below the Miller family farm. He operated the first pharmacy in this town, and it was his quarry that provided West Virginia's stone for the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., set in place in the 1880s.

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