MILLER, LORENZO DOW - Wheeler County, Texas | LORENZO DOW MILLER - Texas Gravestone Photos

Lorenzo Dow MILLER

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

1856-1926

*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary
WHEELER, July 8 - Funeral services will be held here Friday for L. D. Miller, 70, pioneer Panhandle attorney, who died at his home Wednesday night.

Judge Miller first came to the Panhandle in 1882 and settled at Mobeetie. He was associated with Temple Houston, son of General Sam Houston for several years. He was the fourth district attorney in the Panhandle, serving when every county in the Panhandle was attached to Wheeler for judicial purposes.

Judge Miller was the last of the original Panhandle lawyers. The others being Frank Willis, J.N. Browning, W.H. Woodman, Temple Houston, W.B. Plemons, H.H. Wallace, B.M. Baker, S.P. Huff and W.H. Grigsby.

For the past ten years Judge Miller has been county judge of Wheeler county.

He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Mrs. Eulan Wiley, of Cameron, Texas.

Special to The News.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, July 9, 1926)
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Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
Name: Lou Ella Exum
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 28 Oct 1894
Marriage Place: Wheeler, Texas, USA
Spouse: L. D. Miller
Spouse Gender: Male
Source: Texas Marriages, 1851-1900

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Lorenzo Don Miller [inaccurate transcription, document clearly shows Dow as middle name]
Birth Date: 25 Oct 1856
Birth Place: Litus County, Texas [inaccurate transcription, document clearly shows Titus as county]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age at Death: 69
Death Date: 8 Jul 1926
Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA

Contributed on 11/25/21

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Submitted: 11/25/21 • Approved: 11/25/21 • Last Updated: 11/28/21 • R470628-G0-S3

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