Here are the "Miller" references: Sumter 1806-1811: "From Sumter we moved to Manchester on the main road from Camden to Charleston. Many years afterwards when visiting my friends in Salem, I was delayed several hours at the Manchester Station on the Wilmington Railroad, about a mile below the old village, and walked up to it, where I found but two houses remaining -- that formerly occupied by my father, and the old schoolhouse, looking both inside and out exactly as I had left it half a century previously -- the pulpit seats and benches all in their places, and so it may be to this day. A short distance south of the village was a ball battery and alley where the young men played fives, sometimes at match games with those from other places, as is now practiced in baseball, with the addition of considerable sums being staked on the results. Stephen D. Miller, afterwards governor, was one of the best players in the state." Evidently, someone died and left two friends of his a bridge The Legislature was going to put a toll on the bridge. The Bridge Co. then threatened to demolish the toll gate: " Our gamecock governor, Stephen D. Miller's celebrated toast was:"The three boxes preservative of liberty -- the jury box, the ballot box, and the cartridge box." He, by the bye, was inaugurated as governor in a full suit of homespun, and when speaking earnestly made most awfully ugly faces, as if suffering intense torture." : "The Nullification Convention that met at Columbia in November, in 1832 brought together as great an array of talent and patriotism as ever was assembled in the state. James Hamilton, Jr.,then governor, presided, and among its members were William Harper, Robert Y. Hayne, George McDuffie, Robert J. Turnbull, Job Johnston, F.H. Wardlaw, Armistead Burk, Stephen D. Miller, John Lide Wilson, Daniel E. Huger, John B. Oneall, C.J Colcock, John S. Richardson, R.W. Barnwell, R. B. Rhett, Benjamin F. Perry, ex governor Richard I. Manning, and F.H. Elmore." Still Columbia: "Above Sondley, Miller and Poole had a shoe store. Thomas Porter Miller, son on the former, is a banker and broker of many years standing in Mobile, Alabama." Lexington : the Dutch Fork: " At and near Col. Counts', were the Summers, Fulmers, Sweetenburgs, Maj. Mathis, Setzlers, Bundricks',and Millers, and they amused themselves by pitching dollars at which some of them were wonderfully proficient." Columbia 1825: General Lafayette visited the state in 1825, and by order of Gov. Richard I. Manning a squadron of cavalry met him at the N.C. line and escorted him to the capitol where a grand public dinner,in the basement of the Sstate House, was given in his honor, and he was quartered during his stay with Isaac Randolph on the North side of Gervais Street east of Main. Old Billy Miller, a true soldier in the Revoltion, who lived in the Sand Hills and always got drunk when he came to Columbia, was dressed in a decent suit, and ,among others, introduced to the General, who kindly inquired as to the state of his health, and, being told that it was very poor indeed misunderstood the answer and rejoined:"I am very 'appy to 'ear it. Monsieur Millare." And, that, as Paul Harvey has always said, is the rest of the story! Blanche