Susan & Carroll Miller's Grave Double Branch Cemetery, Butler Mo.









Connie Brittingham and I went to the Holmes/Brittingham Cemetery meeting last May in Fort Scott Kansas. I had promised Dad I would ALWAYS take care of the cemetery when he was gone. He even added this to his will, it states that I will always take care of the cemetery and if I can not the other children and grandchildren will look after it. On the way to the meeting which was only about 30 days since Dad had passed away, we stopped at the cemetery in Prescott and checked on Mom and Dad's graves and Connie visited her parents graves. On the way back it was getting late but Connie wanted to go to Double Branch Cemetery close to Butler in Bates County and see if we could find our Mother's Grandparents Graves. She said she remembered her and her Mom, June would drive out to visit the graves when Connie was little. She only remembered they were at Double Branch and she remembered pictures on the stone. It was muddy and cold but we found their graves and was amazed at seeing the pictures of our Great-Great Grandfather and Grandmother Miller. I was shocked that Mom had never mentioned the graves being here? From the stone I got to see what they looked like and that Great Grandpa Miller was born Feb. 24th 1867 and died Jan. 13th 1924, at age 57. Great Grandma Miller was born July 31st, 1869 and died Aug. 13th, 1944, at age 75. She died 1 year after Mom and Dad got married Nov. 13th, 1943. They were never talked about by Mom, I only heard Mom say that her mother's maiden name was Miller and she thought her Grandfather was from Germany descent. Another ancestor mystery to solve!

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