Miller Family History, 9th Generation
(Orrin Elbert Miller Children)
Hazel (Miller) Sorrells (1892-1968)
118274221. Hazel Miller was born on , in California, likely in Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County. She married James Roy Sorrells of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, on the Mexican boarder, in 1912 or 1913. They had two sons, who were stillborn, and one daughter before Roy's untimely death:[Cen 1920,1930]
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1182742211 | Infant son | (0) | ||
| 1182742212 | Roy Sorrells, Jr. | (0) | ||
| 1182742213 | Dolly Ann Sorrells | (82) |
Roy also had a daughter Veney/Vinia(?) from a previous marriage, who was born about 1905.[Cen 1910B]
Roy reported their first son as still born, but did not name Hazel as the mother.[Dth 1922] Their second son, Roy Jr., was also stillborn, having died because of a knotted umbilical cord. He was delivered in Tucson, Pima County, and buried the following day at Evergreen Cemetery Memorial Park in Tucson.[Dth 1927]
Roy worked as a cattle stockraiser in Nogales and Hazel as a public school teacher. Their ranch was 12 miles northeast of Nogales along the Patagonia-Nogales Road (now East Patagonia Highway, Route 82), which was described in 1920 as being on Old Washington Camp Road and later as between the Tres de Mayo Mine and O.Z. Test Mine.[Cen 1920, Dth 1929]
Roy Sorrells was killed by lightning on the afternoon of September 19, 1929. He was 44 years old. Roy is buried at the City of Nogales Cemetery.[Dth 1929,Grave]
Hazel and Dolly stayed on in Santa Cruz County through 1930, along with her late husband's 16-year-old nephew Marvin Sorrells, his 60-year-old, widowed grandmother, and two lodgers.[Cen 1930] Hazel and Dolly eventually made their way to Sacramento County, California.
Hazel (Miller) Sorrells died on June 11, 1968, in Sacramento County, California. She was 75 years old. She was also buried at the City of Nogales Cemetery.[Grave]
Ilee D. “I. D.” (Miller) Hugos (1896-1973)
118274222. Ilee D. “I.D.” Miller was born *, in California, likely in Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County.[Cen 1900] She was frequently known by the initials “I.D.”, which may be an homage to her paternal grandfather, Isaac Dennis Miller7, who died the same month she was born.
I.D. married Harry Julius Hugos, a native of Minnesota, around 1926. She was 29 years old and he was 30. They had one daughter together, who I.D. apparently named for her brother Harold Francis:
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1182742221 | Harriet Frances Hugos | -- | -- | -- |
I.D. lived and worked as a nurse at the Fabiola Hospital in Oakland, Alameda County, California, by 1920.[Cen 1920]
I.D. and Harry married around 1926, a veteran of World War I[Dth 1950], and rented 4901 Lockhaven Avenue in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, by 1930. I.D. Continued nursing at a local hospital and Harry worked as a post office clerk for a railroad.[Cen 1930, Dth 1950]
The Hugos family moved about 9 miles southeast to Alhambra by 1935 and then moved about 3 miles northeast to 2745 Melville Drive in San Marino where they lived through 1950.[Cen 1940, 1950; Draft 1942]
Harry's 1942 draft registration, at age 46, described him as 5' 9-1/2" tall, 145 pounds, with brown eyes, brown hair, and light complexion.[Draft 1942]
Harry Julius Hugos died of an acute coronary thrombosis on January 10, 1950, at the family home in San Marino. He was buried on January 13 at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, Los Angeles County. He was 54 years old.[Dth 1950, Grave]
I.D. moved to Flathead County, Montana, in 1965, and settled at 737 East California Street by 1968[News 1968], where she lived until her death in 1973.
Ilee D. “I.D.” (Miller) Hugos died of a coronary occlusion on , at her home in Kalispell.[Dth 1973] She was 77 years old. She was buried at Conrad Memorial Cemetery in Kalispell on November 6.[Grave]
Arlene Ann (Miller) Olivera (1897-1988)
118274223. Arlene Ann Miller was born , in California, likely in Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County. She married Manuel D. Olivera about 1917 or 1918 and had at least one daughter:
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1182742231. | Mae Loraine Olivera |
After their marriage, the Oliveras lived in Corral de Piedra Precinct in San Luis Obispo, perhaps referring to the town of Edna, midway between San Luis Obispo and Arroyo Grande[Cen 1920]. Their daughter was born in San Luis Obispo County.
By 1930 the Oliveras had moved south to Guadalupe in Santa Barbara County where Manuel worked as a foreman and superintendant at the creamery.[Cen 1930,1940]
Arlene Ann (Miller) Olivera died on in Santa Clara County, California while residing in Sunnyvale. She was 81 years old.
Harold Francis Miller (1900-1965)
118274224. Harold Francis Miller was born on , in California, likely in Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County.
Orrin apparently did not marry and most of the time lived at home with his parents in Arroyo Grande. He work as a blacksmith with his father through at least 1920.[Cen 1920]
In 1930, he may have moved up to San Luis Obispo and boarded with the Raymond and Marie Buck family while working as a laborer at a creamery,[Cen 1930] however, by 1940 his was back home with his parents in Arroyo Grande.[Cen 1940]
Harold's father and mother died in 1941 and 1943.
Harold Francis Miller died on in San Luis Obispo County, at the age of 65. He is buried at the Arroyo Grande Cemetery in Arroyo Grande.