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Quincy Victor MILLER

Male 1890 - 1954  (63 years)


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  • Name Quincy Victor MILLER 
    Birth 16 Dec 1890  Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Also Known As Vic 
    Also Known As Victor 
    Census 4 Jun 1900  Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Census 23 Apr 1910  Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • 302 5th St.
    Census 2 Jan 1920  Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • 301 4th St.
    Census 4 Apr 1930  Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • 601 6th St.
    Residence 1 Apr 1935  Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • 701 6th St.
    Census 19 Apr 1940  Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • 701 6th St.
    Education The University of Texas, 1914 
    Occupation Attorney 
    Occupation Rancher 
    Occupation Real Estate Business 
    Cause of death Cerebral Hemorrhage 
    Death 17 Aug 1954  Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • at 10 p.m. at his residence, 701 6th St.
    Burial 19 Aug 1954  Evergreen Cemetery, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 7
    • Plot: Sec 3, Lot 320A, Space 3
    Person ID I12599  Dyal and Speckels
    Last Modified 30 Oct 2022 

    Father Charles S. MILLER,   b. 26 Aug 1862, Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Feb 1922, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Emilie HAAK,   b. 12 Dec 1864, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Dec 1944, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1888  [8
    Family ID F9479  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Julia Lena VON ROSENBERG,   b. 19 Jan 1896, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Apr 1996, Runnels County, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 100 years) 
    Marriage 3 Jun 1916  La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Children 
    +1. Laura Edith MILLER,   b. 9 Nov 1917, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 2010 (Age 92 years)
    +2. Quincy Victor MILLER, Jr.,   b. 8 Nov 1919, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jan 2002 (Age 82 years)
    +3. John Stonewall MILLER,   b. 5 May 1926, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 4 Feb 2017 (Age < 90 years)
    +4. Robert von Rosenberg MILLER,   b. 16 Oct 1933, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Feb 2017, Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    Family ID F8857  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 May 2009 

  • Headstones
    Miller, Victor and Julia
    Miller, Victor and Julia
    Plot: Plot: Sec 3, Lot 320A, Spaces 3 and 4

  • 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 family 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.” [10]

  • Sources 
    1. [S155] Death Records, File #41236.

    2. [S12] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Runnels County, Texas, ED 126, p. 3A, line 17.

    3. [S13] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, Runnels County, Texas, ED 212, p. 17A, line 15.

    4. [S14] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Runnels County, Texas, ED 214, p. 1A, line 27.

    5. [S15] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Runnels County, Texas, ED 1, p. 4B, line 51.

    6. [S1629] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Runnels County, Texas, ED 200-1, p. 12A, line 6.

    7. [S77] conducted by Robert C. Barritt, Headstone survey, 13 Jun 2014.

    8. [S12] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Runnels County, Texas, ED 126, p. 3A, lines 14-15.

    9. [S370] ed., Alma von Rosenberg Tomlinson, The von Rosenberg Family of Texas, (Toepperwein Publishing Co. (Boerne, TX, 1949); reprint: Nortex Press (n.p., 1986)), p. 74.

    10. [S371] ed., Charles Wilburn von Rosenberg, The Von Rosenberg Family Record, (Texian Press (Waco, TX, 1974)), p. 149.