Father: T. Edward Miller (1831 - 1905)
Mother: Sarah Jane Ried (1831 - 1894)
Daughters:
Lillian B. Miller (1892 - 1969)
Vida P. Miller (Conrad) (1895 - 1993)
Son: Ralph K. Miller (1901 - 1965)
Wife: Annebella G. Pippy (1861 - 1931)
Siblings:
Bessie L. Miller (1861 - 1908)
Harry Ernest Miller (1869 - still alive 1909/10)
Albert E. Miller (1872 - 1880)
Names: Clarence Leighton Miller
Birth Date: 4 April 1863
Birth Location: Miller Creek, Hants. Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Death Date: 5 June 1905 consumption (Tuberculosis)
Death Location: Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
Married: 5 June 1891 Annabella G. Pippy in Truro, Nova Scotia
Mail:
Snail mail: Bob Stallard, Garteli 10, CH-3210 Kerzers, Switzerland
Physical Characteristics: small and wiry, slight
Personality: He was very painstaking with record keeping, his work and very faithful to his club. He must have been a very precise man.
Story:
Nothing is known about his boyhood and early life. He keep a scrap-book from which many things from his adulthood are known.
In the years 1884 - 1887 if not longer, Clarence lived in Boston, Mass. where he received a conductor license for horse drawn trolleys in June 1884. Original certificate is held by Robert L. Stallard. In Feb. to Mar. 1887, there was a strike of the South Boston Railroad workers (horse drawn trolleys) for better pay and hours. Clarence and 5 other conductors and 7 drivers worked during the strike and helped the company break the strike.
From Jan. to July 1888 he travelled by rail and ship through the US and Canada. The railroad across Canada had recently been completed. His notes on this trip are still in existence (RLS). After his travels, he settled at the Lower Village, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia near Truro where he became active in the Orange Lodge. In March 1889 he won $5000 (about 6 years salary for a laborer) in the Louisiana Lottery and received much criticism in N.S. for participation in such a scandalous organization.
Clarence started a newspaper or magazine publication business with at least one other man. The paper was called "The Cosmocrat" but only a few issues were printed. The business was dissolved in Dec. 1890.
Clarence had four siblings, one of which died as a child. His brother Harry Miller, age 21, was crushed by a log and seriously injured at Lower Village near Truro in 1891. He would later recover. Many years later news was circulated that Harry had died in Montana, but it was either not true or was another Harry Miller.
Clarence married Annabella Pippy, a local girl, in 1891 and moved into a house at 22 Willow St., Truro. Here his three children were born. Apparently he was known locally as a painter. His sister Bessie made wonderful paintings, one of which is still in the family (Idabelle, mother of RLS).
Clarence worked in the news paper office of the Truro Daily News "News Publishing Co." as a "skilled manipulator of the Typograph" i.e. a type setter. He attended St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Truro and was very active in the Orange Lodge. He may have had other interests and have been a good father (see family portrait), but his scrap-book shows that a major interest was the participation in the Orange Lodge where he must have held all of the offices at one time or another. Two beautiful Orange Lodge ribbons still exist (RLS).
His parents lived with them, at least for a time before they travelled to Montana in Sept. 1893. His mother died at the home of Ralph Wells Sr. in Montana of consumption (Tuberculosis) in Jan. 1894. Her body was returned to Truro for burial.
After being sick about one year, Clarence died of consumption (TB) June 1905 at the age of 42.
Last updated Jan. 20, 2002 by RLS.
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