Seventh Generation

6316. Fred Lee Miller was born on 7 September 1887 in Alanthus Grove, Gentry Co., MO. He registered for the WWI draft on 5 January 1917 in Alanthus Grove, Gentry Co., MO.²⁰⁹²² Fred died in Gentry Co., MO on 27 January 1962.

The Stanberry Headlight, Gentry County, Missouri, Thursday, February 1, 1962

Fred L. Miller Taken by Death:

Final services were held Tuesday afternoon in the Johnson Funeral Home chapel for Fred Lee Miller, 74, a retired railroad employee and farmer, who died Sunday morning at the Veterans' hospital in Wadsworth, Kan., from pneumonia and complications.

Mr. Miller, a lifelong resident of the Alanthus and Stanberry communities, was taken to the Kansas hospital Saturday in a Johnson ambulance.

The rites were conducted by the Rev. Charles R. Hagee, Mound City, Mo. and burial was in High Ridge cemetery.

Mr. Miller, son of the late Lee and Dora Coffey Miller, was born Sept. 7, 1887, in Alanthus. He was a veteran of World War I and was a member of the Raymond Sager American Legion post here. He and the former Miss Sadie Boatwright were united in marriage Feb. 16, 1921, at Albany.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Sadie Miller, of the home; three daughters, Mrs. Alice Spainhower, Olathe, Kan., Mrs. Macle Spicer, Draper, SD. and Mrs. Margie Cooper, Stanberry; three sons, James Miller, Plattsburg, Mo., Ray Miller, Atlanta, Ga., and Lloyd Miller, Stanberry; one brother, Robert Miller, Stanberry; two sisters Mrs. Mamie Phillips and Mrs. Minnie Canaday, both of Stanberry, and 11 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Dixie Mae, who died in infancy.

Fred Lee Miller and Sadie Boatwright were married on 16 February 1921 in Albany, Gentry Co., MO. They appeared in the census on 19 April 1930 in Stanberry, Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO.²⁰⁹²³ Sadie Boatwright was born circa 1901 in Missouri. She lived with her grandfather Daniel Boatwright in Wilson Twp., Gentry Co., MO on 29 January 1920.

Fred Lee Miller and Sadie Boatwright had the following children: