Four hundred years of history reveal a family that survived the times, as they struggled to be successful and persevered against tragedy, moral dilemmas or ambivalence, and the changing landscape of America. Their story affords the opportunity to examine both the broad strokes of history as they left England, Ireland, and Scotland and the smaller details of life of the common man (and woman and child) as they emigrated from the large coastal plantations of their forefathers to Tennessee hill country before the Civil War to small town U.S.A. in the Midwest at the turn of the 19th century. Biographies of six Miller siblings, all born in the early 20th century just before the Great Depression, complete this saga of American life as it unfolded from Jamestown to 1950s mid-century modern.Photographs, maps, documents, and a Proper Name Index will aid the genealogical researcher in finding their own roots. Also included are Ancestors and Descendants charts with numerous surnames, including: Andrews, Banks, Beauchamp, Buchanan, Chandler, Claiborne, Cook, Eads, Fleming, Gainer, Grimes, Jefferson, Jeffress, Johnson, Miller, Montgomery, Roseland, Royall, Royster, Southerland, Steely, Stokes, Stone, Sudbury, Taylor, Thompson, Turpin, Walker, Ward, Wheatley, Whitley, Whitworth, and many others.
About the Author: Reared in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Linda Miller graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Maryville University in 1978; worked for twenty-five years doing design, drafting, and technical writing in the fields of civil engineering and architecture while living in St. Louis, Phoenix, and Kaneohe, Hawaii; and traveled extensively in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. She currently resides in Orlando, Florida with her husband of over thirty years Carmelo L. Monti, AIA and works as an independent author and small press publisher. Her writing, a mix of technical and creative, includes a novel "Liminality: The Fox Woman's Child"; a children's early chapter book "Terry Trackhoe Goes Missing" that was illustrated by husband Carmelo Monti; poetry found in anthologies; a technical manual for interpreting American with Disabilities Act Design Standards for the Hawaiian State Commission on Persons with Disabilities; a technical manual for corporate civil engineering AutoCAD drafting standards written in Phoenix; and four other self-published books of genealogy and family history, including "A Farm Near Frohna" and "Monte Etna's Children." She also participated with a group of online writers and poets in producing three anthologies of poetry and short stories. Works in progress include an unfinished sequel "Terry Trackhoe Goes Swimming" and an unfinished novel that combines the Hawaiian mythological romance of Laieikawai with a modern event-Hurricane Iniki-that she experienced first-hand while living on Oahu. Hurricane Charley, which ripped through Orlando in 2004, reinforced that experience, and every hurricane season in Florida reminds her that she still has a story to tell.