Quincy Victor MILLER

1890 - 1954  (63 years)

• Name	Quincy Victor MILLER
  Born	16 Dec 1890	Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	17 Aug 1954	Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA   [1]
  	at 10 p.m. at his residence, 701 6th St.
  Buried	19 Aug 1954	Evergreen Cemetery, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I12599	von Rosenberg Family Tree
  Last Modified	5 Jun 2009

  
  

  Father	Charles S. MILLER,   b. 26 Aug 1862, Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA ,   d. 14 Feb 1922, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA  (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Emilie HAAK,   b. 12 Dec 1864, Texas, USA ,   d. 14 Dec 1944, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA  (Age 80 years)
  Married	Abt 1888  [3]
  Family ID	F9479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Julia Lena VON ROSENBERG,   b. 19 Jan 1896, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA ,   d. 8 Apr 1996, Runnels County, Texas, USA  (Age 100 years)
  Married	3 Jun 1916	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Children	+ 1. Laura Edith MILLER,   b. 9 Nov 1917, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA ,   d. 28 Apr 2010  (Age 92 years) + 2. Quincy Victor MILLER, Jr.,   b. 8 Nov 1919, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA ,   d. 15 Jan 2002  (Age 82 years) + 3. John Stonewall MILLER,   b. 5 May 1926, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA ,   d. Bef 4 Feb 2017  (Age 90 years) + 4. Robert von Rosenberg MILLER,   b. 16 Oct 1933, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA ,   d. 4 Feb 2017, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014
  Family ID	F8857	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S155] Death Records, File #41236. [S12] Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Runnels County, Texas, ED 126, p. 3A, line 17. [S12] Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Runnels County, Texas, ED 126, p. 3A, lines 14-15.