... His mother was Jane Lee, and with just pride a relationship is claimed with that historic family, the Lees of Virginia. His grandmother Lee lived near the Old Red Stone Fort, on Monongahelia river, not far from the junction of the two mountain streams that form the Ohio. She distinctly remembered seeing the British and American troops under General Braddock and Colonel Washington proudly march by her father's cabin, on their way to the terrible disaster known in history as Braddock's defeat. She was then fourteen years of age. She came to Indiana with her daughter, and died at the age of ninety years, at the Miller's homestead in Decatur county. ...
... William Lee Miller, the subject of this sketch, was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, October 28, 1827, on a farm about two miles from Flemmingsburg. His parents, William T. Miller and Jane Lee arrived in Decatur county, Indiana, November 1, 1829, and settled four miles northeast of Greensburg, on land now owned by John T. Meek. His father died in 1857, and his mother in 1869. The family consisted of seven children;
- Eliza Miller McWilliams, the mother of Eph McWilliams;
- Rachel Miller Meek, the mother of ex-Sheriff Taylor Meek;
- Martha Miller Rankin;
- Mary Miller Weed;
- William L. Miller;
- John Miller, a prominent young attorney who died at Versailles in 1859, and
- Isabella Miller, who died at the age of twelve. ...
