Quincy Victor MILLER, Jr.

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Vic grew up through the years of drought, depression, and dust storms of West Texas. He attended John Tarleton College and the University of Texas. When the war began in 1941 he left the university his junior year and joined the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. His military career included serving in World War II and the Korean War. In World War II, he trained in B-17s, was a lead pilot, and flew one of the few radar-equipped aircraft. He saw action in some of the greatest aerial battles of that war and was awarded three Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Purple Heart, five Air Medals, and many commendations. He was also credited with three enemy aircraft destroyed in combat. After returning to the United States in 1944, he completed command and general staff school. He served in training command positions, including division level staff and squadron commander. At the outset of the Korean War, he was sent to the Far East. Among other duties, his squadron operated as bush pilots, moving supplies, people, and casualties, and as couriers to Japan. He was awarded a fourth DFC. The rest of Vic's career included carrying cargo across the Pacific, serving as wing inspector, and working in the intelligence section TAC during the U-2 loss, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. After retirement, he and his wife bought a small ranch in Mill City, Oregon; he went back to school, got a degree in engineering and a job at Douglas Aircraft. He retired from Douglas and took a contract job with Boeing and helped the design of the 767 and 757 airliners. Vic did all he had ever dreamed of—cowboy, pilot, military officer, engineer scientist and even stockbroker. He liked hunting and fishing including skeet shooting in which he received numerous trophies.



Buried:
Section R Row A Site 19

Quincy married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

Notes:

At the age of 14 Vic was tangled while hitching a spirited team of horses. Tetanus had to be administered to safe his life, but one leg was amputated. Severed nerves would continue to cause him pain. However, it did not stop him from riding and driving or hunting and fishing.

After graduating with a degree in law, Vic joined his father’s bank in Ballinger and then managed his father-in-law’s compress business in Elgin. However, his father’s death brought financial disaster. He did manage to salvage the familiy home for his mother as well as a modest income. Determined to avoid his father’s countywide promotions, Vic dedicated his practice to the unfortunate, the small businessman, and the farmer. He often only accepted a day of yard work as his fee.

Vic tried his hand at a bottling works, a race for County Judge, and in dealing oil, cotton, grain, and livestock. After tiring of office work, he worked land that his father had sold to Julia, his wife. He converted the farm to ranch and registered the “Running V” brand.

He taught his children tennis and bridge as well as to swim, ride and shoot. He was loved by the youth of the community and would manage a picnic or camp for Boy Scouts or Camp Fire Girls. He suffered a head injury in an auto accident in Austin. He soldiered on for two months before passing away.

Died:
at 10 p.m. at his residence, 701 6th St.

Buried:
Plot: Sec 3, Lot 320A, Space 3

Quincy married Julia Lena VON ROSENBERG on 3 Jun 1916 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. Julia (daughter of Carl Johannes VON ROSENBERG and Dorothea Elisabeth Charlotte MEYER) was born on 19 Jan 1896 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 8 Apr 1996 in Runnels County, Texas, USA; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Julia was her mother’s companion, helper, and nurse in many family illnesses. She graduated from La Grange High School and then attended Texas Presbyterian College for one year. Due to her mother’s illness she did not return to college.

It was at a dance in Bellville that she met Victor Miller. He immediately proposed. She laughed. Vic was persistent, persuasive and “never dull.” Their wedding was a week-long affair with many guests. Their marriage was similar with guests invite for birthdays, reunions, trips, picnics, and camps. Julia arranged food, dishes, decorations for bridge parties, church functions, teas, sewing circles, house guests, and youth gatherings. She led a Camp Fire group, working in PTA, and held women’s offices in the Presbyterian church. She was also a popular Bible teacher and for five years sponsored a young women’s service sorority, Beta Sigma Phi. Julia enjoyed travel, entertaining, and letter writing. She also enjoyed gardening, bird watching, bridge playing, and raising canaries and tropical fish.

Buried:
Plot: Sec 3, Lot 320A, Space 4

Notes:

Died:
at 7 a.m.

Charles married Emilie HAAK about 1888. Emilie was born on 12 Dec 1864 in Texas, USA; died on 14 Dec 1944 in Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA; was buried on 16 Dec 1944 in Evergreen Cemetery, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
at 3:45 p.m.

Notes:

Died:
at 9:20 p.m. at his residence, 710 West 21st

Carl married Dorothea Elisabeth Charlotte MEYER on 30 Sep 1884 in Ellinger, Fayette, Texas, USA. Dorothea (daughter of John H. MEYER and Dorothea Charlotte ELLABUSCH) was born on 17 Feb 1866 in Ross Prairie, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 28 Mar 1937 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA; was buried on 29 Mar 1937 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
at 12:30, Easter morning, at her residence, 710 West 21st St.

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Johannes was born at the Eckitten Estate. When he was a few weeks old, his mother died. The Veithofer-Froelich grandmother immediately took him and raised him until his father remarried. He was schooled at the Paul-Narmund Estate and was mobilized in the National Guards of East Prussia after having received his education. After serving his term in the Guards, he became a Sergeant Major in the infantry.

He held no fond feelings for the Germany he left in 1849 as evidenced in an letter he wrote his favorite cousin, Lottchen von Holty in Germany. “As the news came to me in Saxony, where I was Oekonomie Inspector at the age of twenty-three that our beautiful Eckitten was, to my notion, squandered by being sold at a loss, and that many unpleasantries were happening to my family, and also with much disagreeable and disturing news from my beloved Litthauen, my life was so embittered that I left for America with the vow never to be heard from again in Germany. Now it is nearly thirty years since, and this is the first letter that I send across the ocean; I never received one either and never cared to read one that did come; but as you, dear cousin, would like to know something about each of us, I shall write now to please you.”

Johannes married shortly after arriving in Texas. They lived on a farm that was a part of the Nassau Plantation in Fayette County. He had cultivated that land while boarding with his sister, Hannchen Hellmuth. He later bought a farm at Evergreen in Washington County. After the Civil War began, he and his older brother William served together in the Engineer’s Corps in East Texas.

After his return from the war he gave up farming, moved into Round Top, and resided there until his wife died in 1894. There he began a mercantile business and an inn which was well known to travelers. After the death of his wife he retired and moved in with his two unmarried daughters, Hulda and Wilhelmine.

Johannes was said to be a charming but quiet man who was sweet and gentle. As for a hobby, it was the same in Texas as it had been at Eckitten: raising pigeons.

Johannes married Julia Wilhelmine Christine GROOS on 26 Oct 1850 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Julia (daughter of Carl Apollo Wilhelm GROOS and Sophie Wilhelmine Louise MARTIN) was born on 29 Apr 1829 in Straßebersbach, Dillenburg, Nassau; died on 22 Mar 1894 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried in La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Julia came to Texas in 1848 at the age of 19 years with her father and siblings. Her mother had died in 1844, and the family had suffered business losses. The family lived their first year in Texas as renters on the old Ernst place near Industry, but the father soon bought a farm that had been a part of Nassau Plantation. With this move they became neighbors of the von Rosenberg family.

Julia was a busy housekeeper who also found time to help friends and neighbors. She was part of a group of women who took turns cooking soup for sick neighbors. Her only outside interests were quilting parties and the midafternoon “Kaffee Klatch” with the other women. Small in stature and energetic, she wore her hair in braids tied around her head with a black velvet bow. She is remembered for her gentle manners, good fashion taste and home decorations.

Buried:
originally interred 24 Mar 1894 at another location in La Grange

John married Dorothea Charlotte ELLABUSCH. Dorothea was born on 29 Oct 1834 in Kingdom of Prussia; died on 11 Feb 1910 in Ellinger, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried in Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Ross Prairie, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
1900 census: Jun 1836

Died:
at about 1 a.m. at her residence; headstone: 10 Feb 1910