This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Miller, Ross Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UW.2ADE/686.2.2 Message Board Post: Mendocino Beacon Mendocino, Mendocino Co., CA Saturday, August 29, 1896 DEATH OF D. W. MILLER. After a lingering illness Mr. D. W. Miller died at the home of his father-in-law, Rev. John S. Ross, at Caspar, on last Sunday, Aug. 26, 1896. The funeral took place last tuesday afternoon from the Baptist church by Rev. Whitesides. The body was interred in the Caspar cemetery. The extensive friendship and universal esteem enjoyed by the deceased was manifested by the large number congregated at the funeral, the cortege of vehicles extending for nearly a mile on the route to the cemetery. D. W. Miller was born in St. Clair Co., Ill., June 7th, 1861. When 6 years of age the family removed to Missouri. Early in life he thirsted for an education. Newly settled localities did not afford the best advantages to secure this and he struggled hard to accomplish his purpose. He made sufficient progress, so that at the age of 19 we find him teaching school at intervals in order to obtain means to pursue his studies. He attended several terms at Sedalia University and graduated from the State Normal School at Warrensburg in the class of '87. Soon afterward he accepted a position in the high school, Nevada, Mo., as vice-principal, which he filled with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the Board of Education. He came to California in 1888. In December of that year he came to Fort Bragg, where he spent some months there until he began teaching at Caspar in March, 1889, where he taught two years. Sept. 4th, 1890, he married Lizzie Ross, eldest daughter of Rev. J. ! S. Ross, so well known on this coast. At Fort Bragg he then taught as substitute for Prof. Surface while he was an invalid, and when that gentleman went East Mr. Miller became his successor as principal. He held this position for three years, when he resigned owing to symptoms of failing health. He did some office work as notary public and insurance agent afterwards. In September, 1895 he made a trip to Alaska to inspect a mining claim. Returning home from San Francisco, he contracted a cold which indicated the first symptoms of the disease which proved fatal. In November, 1895, he and his wife went to Alaska intending to remain for a time in the interest of the California share holders of the Alaska Willoughby Gold Mining Co. At Juneau, before reaching their destination, he was taken very ill with lung fever. He partially recovered and they spent four months in Alaska, returning home in March, 1896. After his return he was anxious and satisfied to remain at home, thinking that any possible benefit he might receive in another climate would be counteracted by the exertion of travel and the absence of the comforts of home. He joined the Baptist church in early life, and lived and died a consistent Christian. His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Miller, who visited him, as also do two sisters, all of Lewis, Mo., and all, especially his sorrowing widow, have the heartfelt sympathy of the community in their sad bereavement. Mendocino County Indexes http://www.pacificsites.net/~pcarna Mendocino County Tombstone Photos http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mendocem/