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- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89364233
Buried as "Dove L. Poe".
1900 census of Mount Vernon, Benton County, AR, found the Callis family living in dwelling #233. They had been married 26 years and 3 of their 5 children were still living. Next door in dwelling #237 was Louoma Trent living with her divorced mother, Harriet Trent, and widowed grandmother, Mary Callis:
B. Callis 9/1841 58 AR TN TN Farmer
Lusia Callis 9/1841 52 AR TN TN
Lewis A. Callis 10/1886 13 AR AR AR Farmer
Mary Callis 1824 76 TN TN TN Landlord, widow
Harriet Trent 9/1859 40 AR TN TN Daughter, divorced
Luoma Trent 5/1892 8 AR TN AR Grandaughter
6 Feb 1920 census of Garland, Benton County, AR, found the Miller family living in dwelling #213:
John Miller 36 AR IL IL Farmer
Dove 30 AR US AR
Mildred 7 AR AR AR
Margret 3 AR AR AR
Helen 9/12 AR AR AR
Daughter Mildred Miller said that the John Miller and Robert Miller families all went to California together, leaving from Southwest City, MO, and traveling through Oklahoma, Kansas and eventually Oregon. They finally arrived in California in August of 1924. She said that Louoma's mother was a Callis, as was Robert Miller's wife.
7 April 1930 census of Smith River, Del Norte County, CA, found the Miller family living in dwelling #50 on Wallace Avenue. John and Leoma said that they were first married at ages 29 and 19 respectively:
John Miller 49 AR IL IL Laborer - Creamery
Leoma 39 AR US MO
Mildred 17 AR AR AR
Margaret 12 AR AR AR
Helen 11 AR AR AR
Hazel 9 AR AR AR
Ruby 5 CA AR AR
25 April 1940 census of Crescent City, Del Norte County, CA, found Dove living with Reno Lopez in dwelling #549. She said that she lived at the same place on 1 April 1935:
Reno Lopez 64 CA - Head, Divorced, No education, Farmer
Dove Miller 47 -- - Housekeeper, Divorced, 5 years of education
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THE TRIP TO CALIFORNIA (as remembered by Maxine Miller Mason and written by Margot Mason Stockstill)
On August 1, 1924, the family left Benton County, Arkansas, and headed for a ranch near Crescent City in Northern California that Robert's uncle and namesake, Robert William Miller, had given him. Mimi had only been out of Benton County once and
then only a few miles into Oklahoma.
There were 24 people and a collie named Socrates in the moving party packed into a new Maxwell, a Ford, a Buick and a Ford Truck. They were: Mimi and Robert, Herbert and Hershel, Blanche, Margaret, Don, Dick, Maxine, Ruth, Bill, JK (just 7 weeks old), Uncle John Miller (Robert's brother) and his wife Aunt Dove and their 5 girls, Mimi's brother Uncle Claude Callis, Aunt Arthula and their son Louis, Mimi's father John Hamilton Callis, who was 64 years old, and Cora Nichols, Mimi's twin.
The first stop was Grove, Oklahoma, at Mimi's brother Uncle Clark's home. Aunt Cora only went that far. Uncle Clark had a big going away party for the family. Each night while traveling they stayed in campgrounds. The women would wash clothes and the men would work on the cars and truck.
In Colorado there was an inspection stop for boll weevils so the family had to empty all their boxes. the Rocky Mountains were too big for Robert so his sons Herbert and Hershel drove. The family drove down through Oregon and reached Crescent City on Don's birthday, August 30th. The trip had taken 30 days. When they first saw the Pacific Ocean Mimi said,"I think we've come too far."
On their new ranch they lived in tents. The children had fun playing in the river but Socrates, the collie, got ahold of a dead salmon and died. They wouldn't let Grandad (John Hamilton) Callis play his fiddle for fear it would attract bears and Indians.
In September it was time for school so the family moved into town. Uncle John Miller took his family to Smith River. That winter Uncle John's youngest girl died, their house and car burned, but they stayed on in Smith River. There was a hurricane which ruined part of Crescent City. Mimi was sick all winter because the damp weather caused her to have rheumatism. Uncle Claude and Aunt Arthula left Crescent City and moved to Ojai, writing back about the warm and beautiful valley.
As soon as school was out in 1925 the Millers headed south, stopped in Suisun and leased a ranch with apricots and peaches. Mimi always said that that was one of the happiest years of her life. Robert took Hershel and Margaret to Ojai and liked it so well they decided to move down in the Fall of 1926.
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