In 1924, Maggie moved with the family from Arkansas to California. She was 17 years old. The John Miller and Robert Miller families all went to California together, leaving from Southwest City, Missouri and traveling through Oklahoma, Kansas and eventually Oregon. They finally arrived nearby to Crescent City, Del Norte County, California and shortly thereafter moved to Ojai in Southern California.
At the age of 23, Margaret married Richard George H. Catterlin on 11 January 1930. They never had any children.
In the 1930 census of Ventura, Ventura Co., CA, Richard and Margaret were living with his parents, George and Nellie Catterlin. Richard was employed as a swamper for an oil company and Margaret was a cook for a private family. They indicated that they were newlyweds.
In the 1940 census, they were living in Ojai and Richard was a truck driver in the oil fields.
From the 1980 Miller Family Reunion Booklet it says: Margaret is one of the world's best cooks and needle workers. Dick is a retired oil field worker and water company employee. Margaret's nickname: Sis.
Memories of Sis by William Robert Miller Jr:: "Sis was 14 years old when I was born and we had the same birthday. She told her mother one day, 'I wish you hadn't got me this birthday present.' Mimi said, 'what did you say?' She said, 'I'm so glad you got me this birthday present!'
When Tom was born, she came to Idaho to take care of the boys. Dick was yelling at her because she was there and he thought she should be there with him. Sis said to him: I'll tell you something right now - if you ever talk to me like that again, it will be the last time because you're moving out!'
She was a real nice lady, but I can't say the same for the guy that she was married to for so long.
Sis fell in her house and broke an arm or something like that and never got over it. Died a few days later."
Dick had passed away in 1983, so she was a widow at the age of 76. Margaret died on 12 September 1998 in Ojai, Ventura County, CA at the age of 90. She is buried in the Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura County, CA.
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RECORDS
Cora Margaret Miller
1910 - Garland, Benton, AR
1920 - Garland, Benton, AR
1930 - Ventura, Ventura, CA
1935 - Ojai, Ventura, CA
1940 - Ojai, Ventura, CA
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18 April 1910 census of Garland, Benton county, AR, found the Miller family living in dwelling #32. Robert and Dora said that they had been married 7 years and 4 of their 5 children were still living:
Robert W. Miller 30 IL IL IL Farmer
Dora N. 26 AR AR TN
Herbert J. 5 AR IL AR
Hershell J. 5 AR IL AR
Maggie C. 2 AR IL AR
Unnamed son 0/12 AR IL AR
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23 Jan 1920 census of Garland, Benton County, AR, found the Miller family living in dwelling #50 on Fourth Street:
R. W. Miller 40 IL IL IN Salesman - H.W.D.
Dora 36 AR AR TN
Hurbert 14 AR IL AR Twin
Herschell 14 AR IL AR Twin
Maggie 12 AR IL AR
Dick 9 AR IL AR
Donald 7 AR IL AR
Maxine 3 AR IL AR
Ruth 1 6/12 AR IL AR
Blanche Pitts 13 IL IL AR Niece
J. D. Miller 80 IL OH IL Father, Widowed
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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.
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7 Apr 1930 census of Ventura, Ventura County, CA, found the Catterlin family living in dwelling #155 on Spring Street. George and Nellie were both employed in real estate sales and were first married at age 23 and 17 respectively. Richard was employed as a swamper for an oil company and Margaret was a cook for a private family. They indicated that they were newlyweds:
George W. Catterlin 56 IA OH IN
Nellie 50 IA Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany
Geraldine 10 AZ IA IA
Richard G. 25 IA IA IA
C. Margaret 22 US US US daughter-in-law
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4 April 1940 census of Ojai, Ventura County, CA, found the Catterlin family living at 418 North Fulton Street. They both said that they had lived in Ojai on 15 April 1935:
Richard Catterlin 35 IA - 8 years of education, Truck driver - Oil fields, Earned $1500 in past year
Margaret Catterlin 32 AR - Completed 1 year of high school 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.
SOURCES
Refer to www.miller.info/genealogy, Memories of Robert William Miller Jr., family records and research.
Find A Grave Memorial
Dick had passed away in 1983, so she was a widow at the age of 76. Margaret died on 12 September 1998 in Ojai, Ventura County, CA at the age of 90. She is buried in the Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura County, CA.
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RECORDS
Cora Margaret Miller
1910 - Garland, Benton, AR
1920 - Garland, Benton, AR
1930 - Ventura, Ventura, CA
1935 - Ojai, Ventura, CA
1940 - Ojai, Ventura, CA
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18 April 1910 census of Garland, Benton county, AR, found the Miller family living in dwelling #32. Robert and Dora said that they had been married 7 years and 4 of their 5 children were still living:
Robert W. Miller 30 IL IL IL Farmer
Dora N. 26 AR AR TN
Herbert J. 5 AR IL AR
Hershell J. 5 AR IL AR
Maggie C. 2 AR IL AR
Unnamed son 0/12 AR IL AR
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23 Jan 1920 census of Garland, Benton County, AR, found the Miller family living in dwelling #50 on Fourth Street:
R. W. Miller 40 IL IL IN Salesman - H.W.D.
Dora 36 AR AR TN
Hurbert 14 AR IL AR Twin
Herschell 14 AR IL AR Twin
Maggie 12 AR IL AR
Dick 9 AR IL AR
Donald 7 AR IL AR
Maxine 3 AR IL AR
Ruth 1 6/12 AR IL AR
Blanche Pitts 13 IL IL AR Niece
J. D. Miller 80 IL OH IL Father, Widowed
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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.
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7 Apr 1930 census of Ventura, Ventura County, CA, found the Catterlin family living in dwelling #155 on Spring Street. George and Nellie were both employed in real estate sales and were first married at age 23 and 17 respectively. Richard was employed as a swamper for an oil company and Margaret was a cook for a private family. They indicated that they were newlyweds:
George W. Catterlin 56 IA OH IN
Nellie 50 IA Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany
Geraldine 10 AZ IA IA
Richard G. 25 IA IA IA
C. Margaret 22 US US US daughter-in-law
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4 April 1940 census of Ojai, Ventura County, CA, found the Catterlin family living at 418 North Fulton Street. They both said that they had lived in Ojai on 15 April 1935:
Richard Catterlin 35 IA - 8 years of education, Truck driver - Oil fields, Earned $1500 in past year
Margaret Catterlin 32 AR - Completed 1 year of high school 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.
SOURCES
Refer to www.miller.info/genealogy, Memories of Robert William Miller Jr., family records and research.
Find A Grave Memorial
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