Albert House Miller, born April 11, 1839, in Pennsylvania, was a Union soldier in the Civil War, serving in Company D of the 13th Ohio Infantry. On March 16, 1865, he married Mary L. Townsend in Ohio. During the next sixteen years, seven children were born to whom only four lived to adulthood.

Sometime between 1875 and 1878, they moved to Kansas where Albert worked in a sawmill, but what he really wanted to do was experiment with nursery plants. Hearing that the summers were longer and the winters milder, he came to Oklahoma Territory as a "Sooner" to search for the right place for his fruit trees. He found what he was looking for in central Oklahoma {possibly where the state capitol now stands.} He may have been one of the first nurserymen in Oklahoma. He was an expert at grafting and budding fruit trees.

Sometime in the mid to late 1890's, Albert, his wife, and three of his children came to Lincoln County and settled in the Chandler area.

Albert died in 1916 and his wife, Mary, in 1920. They are both buried in Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler.

Lorenzo Lee Miller, the oldest of these children to reach Oklahoma, married Mary Etta Metcalf and had six children. Three of these lived most of their lives in Lincoln County. They were Clarence Miller, Gladys Miller Caldwell and Ray Vernon Miller. The Millers were farmers who worked hard and long.

Ray V. Miller was born in Oklahoma City June 12, 1892. He was married to Mary Ethel Hays October 22, 1913 at the Burkett farm close to the Miller farm south of Chandler. Mary Ethel was the daughter of John Thomas Hays and Martha Manerva Liutisha Hays who later married George Emerson Burkett after John Hays died in 1891. Martha's father and mother, Thomas Marcus Wellington Hays and Sarah H. Looney Hays also came to Lincoln County to live near Chandler in 1906 from Thayer, Missouri. They are buried in Morning Star Cemetery south of Chandler, as is Martha Hays Burkett who died in 1922. Her husband, George, is buried in Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler.

Ray and Mary Ethel Miller had six children. About 1930, they bought a farm in the Sparks area, on what is now Highway 18B. Ray had a sorghum mill and besides making and selling his own, he made sorghum for neighbors who brought him their cane. Ray was also an ingenious inventor who made many of his own tools and implements. He was a candidate for county commissioner District No. 3 in 1952, losing the election to Dow McElvaney.

They attended and were members of the Forest Baptist Church.

Ethel died December 24, 1954 and Ray died June 2, 1968. They are buried in Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler. Several of their children have lived in Lincoln County most all of their lives.

George Albert Miller married Frances Baker in 1939. They had three sons, Albert, Larry and Robert. George owned and operated Miller's Laundry for many years in Chandler and drove the bus for the Chandler school system. He died in 1984 and Frances died in 2006, both are buried at Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler.

Lincoln County means a lot to each and every one of us.

Lincoln County Oklahoma History, page 1063.