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Elinor May "Ella" Reese Miller
31 Dec 1877 – 24 Mar 1959
| Birth | 31 Dec 1877 |
| Death | 24 Mar 1959 |
| Cemetery | Mount Hope Cemetery Baker City , Baker County , Oregon , USA |
| Added by | Leslie Barlow Randle on 19 Aug 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115783030 |
Bio
Elinor "Ella" May Reese Miller was born of Welsh parents in Utah's mining country. She married Thomas Henry Miller, a Welsh miner, in the Lion House in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 5, 1894. They became parents of five children in six short years. They moved often as Tom was in charge of electricity lighting the mines, and often became the mine supervisor. After their mining days were over, they settled in Baker City and they had their sixth child, a son. Ella didn't enjoy writing, she left that task to her husband, but she was an elaborate storyteller. She was also a wonderful cook. Her fried chicken, mashed potatoes, chicken gravy, huckleberry pie or huckleberry dumplings were fondly remembered. They lived at 464 Spring Garden in Baker. Less than five feet tall, her kitchen was built just for her — everything lower. She had shelves where glass containers stood and one of them had coconut in it. Her granddaughter used to eat that and love it. She also had a pantry off the kitchen, very small but always cool, even in the hottest days of summer. The back porch kept the ironing board and iron. In the far corner was the table where she made her button-covered boxes for her hobby. She slept in a big brass bed and had a china cabinet to house her basket collection. Grandpa sat by the radio at night to listen to the news. The enclosed front porch stayed fairly cool and that is where the visiting grandchildren would sleep. The 1920's home in the Smithsonian Institute looks much like theirs: patterned carpeting, linoleum kitchen floor and wood stove — until it was later replaced with a more modern one. Ella kept the family close and it was said of her family that they supported and were very loyal to each other, not an unkind word was said of another sibling. After her death Grandpa said he couldn't imagine life without her, and he died a few months later.
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Family
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Siblings
- Alma Nephi Reese 1866–1909
- William George Reese 1871–1922
- Elizabeth Adeline Reese Wilson 1874–1924
- Jeannette Reese Lewis 1876–1958
- Amelia Merintha Reese Kane 1885–1920
- Martha Rosina Reese Taylor 1887–1947
- Ralph James Bishop Reese 1889–1921
Children
- Sarah Adaline Miller Boyd 1895–1985 FaG
- Ray Henry Miller 1896–1970 FaG
- PVT Roy Thomas Miller 1896–1970 FaG
- Elinor Mae Miller Yancey 1899–1966 FaG
- Gertrude Amelia Miller Maurer 1903–1998 FaG
- Harvey Randall "Harv" Miller 1918–2005 FaG
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