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Oscar Stephen Miles

8 Mar 1858 – 30 Oct 1942

Birth	8 Mar 1858
Death	30 Oct 1942
Cemetery	Greenwood Cemetery Fairview Heights , St. Clair County , Illinois , USA
Added by	Kerry Patrick on 12 Feb 2018
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187290925

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East St. Louis Journal, East St. Louis, Illinois, Sunday, November 1, 1942, page 3 OSCAR MILES DIES AT 85 Life-Long Resident of County, Ill Several Years Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday in the Linder chapel for Oscar S. Miles, 85 of Prospect Park, who died Friday morning in Christian Welfare hospital. Mr. Miles, who was a life-long resident of St. Clair County, had been ill for several years. He was the father of Oscar D. Miles, a veteran of the battle of Meuse-Argonne, one of the deciding battles of World War I, who now is stationed at Fort Riley, Kan. Before his induction into the Army this year, Miles was a member of the city fire department and was chef de guerre of the 40 and 8 unit of the American Legion. Other survivors are the widow, Mrs. Lizzie Miles, three daughters, Mrs. Bertha Bach, Mrs. Leota Doehler and Mrs. Eunice Snyder, seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery.

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Family

Parents

• Sarah Clark Austin 1819–1902
• Stephen Miles 1826–1858

Siblings

• Naomi A. Miles Whiteside 1839–1911
• Norman Miles 1841–1861
• William H. Miles 1844–1907
• Mary Elisa Miles Austin 1845–1929
• Kate Miles 1846–1906
• Alexander Miles 1850–1911
• Adolphus Miles 1851–1933
• Clarissa "Clara" Miles Mitchell 1853–1928
• Eunice Miles Church 1854–1936
• Asa Miles 1856–1858
• Charles Austin 1862–1942

Children

• Bertha Viola Miles Verbal 1885–1981 FaG
• James E. Miles 1890–1918 FaG

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