Source 1: findagrave.com Source 2: The Okolona Messenger, Thursday, March 25, 1926, Page 1 Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi MATTIE HARRIS MILLER The remains of Mrs. W. H. Miller reached here Sunday night and were laid to rest in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery Tuesday afternoon after services at the residence conducted by Rev. A. C. McCorkle, pastor of the Methodist church, assisted by W. O. Blount, pastor of the Baptist church. An account published in the Memphis paper at the time of her death is as follows: "Mrs. Mattie H. Miller, 69, wife of Dr. W. H. Miller, of Okolona, Mississippi died suddenly at Baptist Memorial Hospital at two o'clock Sunday morning after one week's treatment at the institution. Mrs. Miller's condition was considered satisfactory until Saturday morning when she suffered a relapse and sank steadily until the end. So unexpected was her death that it was impossible to get all members of the family here before she succumbed. Mrs. Miller is survived by her husband, who for many years practiced medicine in Okolona; two sons, O. H. Miller of Memphis, Erskine Miller, three daughters, Misses Adele, Ann and Clementine Miller, all of Okolona, and two grandchildren. Mrs. Miller was the daughter of Overton and Ann Clark Harris and was born at Verona, Mississippi. Her ancestors came from Virginia and South Carolina and were among the early settlers of Mississippi. Many of them were there long before the Civil War. Her father died in 1884 at the age of 96 years and had come to Mississippi from South Carolina in early manhood. She was a descendant of Ben Harris, a Revolutionary officer, and the niece of Col. Richard Clark, founder of Verona. "Dr. Miller served during the last three years of the Civil War in Company K, First Mississippi Calvary, which was in Armstrong's brigade. He went through many notable engagements, among them being Franklin, Tennessee, Dallas, Georgia, and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he rode side by side with General Forrest in the charge against the Yankee lines. Throughout the war he was under Forrest's command and was captured at Selma, Alabama a few days before Lee's surrender." ********************************** Mattie Harris was the wife of William Howard Miller, M. D. Mattie is part of Group 6, Harris Y-DNA Family Study. Line of Robert Harris of Ware Creek, New Kent County, Virginia. She descends through Robert & Elizabeth (Turner) Harris. Ira L. Harris III Group 6, Harris Y-DNA Family Study