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 1841 - 1923 (81 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. |  Harriet Ann Venable was born on 19 Aug 1841; died on 12 Aug 1923 in Farmville, Prince Edward County, VA. Notes:
Papers of Harriet V. Miller. DAR # 649174
Census, 1850, VA, Pr. Edw. Co., p. 19, fam. 252: Harriet, age 8, attends school.
Census, 1860, VA, Pr. Edw. Co., p. 61, fam. 415: there is an entry hard to read that looks like "Huey" or "Henry," but perhaps it could be Harriet or Hattie, age 17, student.
1920 Census, FL, Lake Co., Leesburg, fam. 392, Harriet W. Edmunds, 78, born VA, parents born VA, with husband, residing with the Ralph family(probably renters?), next door to the Minos Ebenezer Miller family.
Mary's handwritten autobiography (found by Sandra Newton Mille Lassen, 1976, in a box of 1946 cancelled checks in Veranda Hse Apts.): "My mother (i.e., Harriet) moved to Hampden-Sidney when I was quite young and ran a boarding house for college boys and taught music lessons...When my mothers parents died we moved to the old Venable home "Scott Green" where we lived until I was married in 1894....my mothers hands were more than full - a large family - an invalid husband, boarders and a music class."
Transcription of notes of Harriet Ann Venable (undated) from papers of her namesake, Harriet Venable Miller:
"Just before the Civil war began Henry Watkins Edmunds joined the military company and was elected corporal. First fight got into he was wounded, captured and paroled. Came home and went to courting. Got engaged to Harriet Ann Venable. He was young and strong and vigorous and thought he could take care of a wife all right, but a short time after this engagement he was exchanged and volunteered the second time and joined a cavalry co. 3rd VA Cavalry, Fitz. Lee's Brigade, J.E.B. Stuart's division, and was severely wounded at Kelly's Ford, Culpepper Co., VA, and returned home. His father sent for Dr. Mettener, a noted surgeon who when he saw him, said it would take several years for his wound to heal (it took six years to heal). He also said that unless he had pneumonia or pleurisy his wound would not shorten his days, but that he would always be short-winded and never able to do continuous hard work.
He then wrote to his sweetheart, Hattie Venable and told her what the doctor had said and telling her as he could not ask her to sacrifice her life to the helpless cripple that he was, felt that he would not be able to take care of her, that he would make no complaint if she should cancel the engagement between them. She replied at once that the engagement should not be broken and if he could not take care of her she could and would take care of him, which she did for 59 years.
In 1914 we celebrated our Golden Wedding and John D. Rockefellow (sic) celebrated his the same day and I feel that I have left my children with a better legacy by having such a mother and her example and precept than if I had had all of John D.'s wealth to leave them."
Birth:
"Scott Green", Prince Edward Co., VA
Harriet married Henry Watkins Edmunds on 7 Sep 1864. Henry was born on 10 Oct 1837 in Prince Edward County, VA; died on 14 Aug 1926 in Farmville, Prince Edward County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Mary Embra Edmunds
 was born on 7 Sep 1872; died in Nov 1945 in Veranda House, Leesburg, Lake, FL; was buried in Lone Oak Cem., Leesburg, FL.
- 3. Thomas Venable Edmunds was born on 23 Sep 1867 in Prince Edward County, VA; died on 4 Mar 1935 in Winston-Salem, NC.
- 4. Edwin Edmunds
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Mary Embra Edmunds (1.Harriet1) was born on 7 Sep 1872; died in Nov 1945 in Veranda House, Leesburg, Lake, FL; was buried in Lone Oak Cem., Leesburg, FL. Notes:
Mary's handwritten autobiography (found by Sandra Newton Miller Lassen, 1976, in a box of 1946 cancelled checks in Veranda Hse Apts.); went to FL for health & met future husband
Census, 1920, FL, Lake, Leesburg, #391: Mary, 48
Photo, Lake Cthse. - After her husband's death, Mary became Superintendent of Registration, the job her husband had at the time of his death.
Birth:
"Multiperro", Farmville, Prince Edward Co., VA
Mary married Minos Ebenezer Miller on 19 Oct 1894. Minos was born on 24 Oct 1856 in Pontotoc County, MS; died on 21 Jun 1936 in Leesburg, Lake County, Fl; was buried in Lone Oak Cem., Leesburg, FL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
| 6. | Mary Pauline Miller (2.Mary2, 1.Harriet1) was born on 19 Jul 1900 in Orange Bend, Lake County, Fl; died on 6 Nov 1906 in Leesburg, Lake County, Fl. Notes:
Notes, Harriet V. Miller & Mary Edmunds Miller, & my personal knowledge. Called Pauline. Portrait of Pauline done mos. before her death hung above the Chas. G. Miller staircase for yrs.; now in his 9th St. home, Leesburg., FL The portrait is a bit spooky, as Pauline looked exactly like her sister Hattie as a child.
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