Miller, Horace (Died 1906)

MILLER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 8/30/2009 at 20:36:47

LeMars Sentinel
July 24, 1906

FORMER LE MARS MAN DROWNS.

Wallace Winslow is in receipt of a letter from an undertaking firm in
Spokane, Wash., asking for information as to any relatives of Horace or
Henry N. Miller, who was accidentally drowned there. The letter stated that
Miller’s body was identified at the morgue in Spokane by Clifford Winslow, a
son of Wallace Winslow.

Horace Miller lived in LeMars for many years and was employed with the Iowa
Telephone Company and later with the Water & Light Company. He drank
heavily and went from bad to worse after leaving here, and his wife, who
stuck with him faithfully for many years, finally left him and obtained a
divorce. He was seen in Spokane by LeMars people several times last year and
they said he was on the rocks.

Mr. Winslow telephoned to W. A. Simkins at Britt, an old acquaintance of
Miller, but failed through him to locate any of Miller’s relatives. Miller
came from Marshalltown to LeMars.

His father was for many years a guard at the Anamosa penitentiary but is now
dead.

The letter to Mr. Winslow stated that Miller was absolutely without funds of
friends and that if no word could be obtained from relatives, the funeral
would be conducted at the expense of the county.