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Submitted: 7/19/22 • Approved: 7/20/22 • Last Updated: 7/23/22 • R526363-G526362-S3
Susan Addye Vaughn Miller
August 29, 1885-October 31, 1978
Mother
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
Services for Mrs. Addye Miller, 93, first woman sheriff in Texas, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the First Christian Church. The Rev. Mack McCarter, pastor, will be officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Miller died Tuesday at Plains Memorial Hospital in Dimmitt where she was living at South Hills Manor.
Mrs. Miller was born Aug. 29, 1885, in Palo Pinto County. She came to Hereford in 1905 and married John B. Miller, sheriff of Deaf Smith County in 1907. She later became the first woman sheriff in Texas after her husband was killed in an accident while on duty in 1936. She was active in clubs and social activities, and attended the First Christian Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Betty Cartwright of Dimmitt; three sons, John G. and Robert S. Miller, both of Amarillo, and Billy Miller of Hereford; 16 grandchildren, and 22 great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 77th Year, No. 88, Hereford, Texas, Wednesday, November 1, 1978, Page 2)
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Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Addye Vaughan
Marriage Date: 30 Oct 1907
Marriage Place: Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Spouse: John B. Miller
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Susan Miller
Death Date: 31 Oct 1978
Death County: Castro
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Susan Addye Miller
[Susan Addye Vaughn]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 93
Birth Date: 29 Aug 1885
Birth Place: Palo Pinto, Texas
Residence: Dimmitt, Castro, Texas, USA
Death Date: 31 Oct 1978
Death Place: Dimmitt, Castro, Texas, USA
Father: Lemule W Vaughn
Mother: Carrie Taylor
Certificate Number: 83364
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