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]

Sorrells Children
  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]

Sources
  • Cen 1900: 22 Jun 1900 Census, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1910A: 16 Apr 1910 Census, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1910B: 22 Apr 1910 Census, Garces National Forest, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
  • Cen 1920: 15 Jan 1920 Census, Nogales Precinct, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
  • Dth 1922: Death Record 348/246, Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
  • Dth 1927: Death Record 397/166, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
  • Dth 1929: Death Record 396/E63, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
  • Cen 1930: 2 Apr 1930 Census, Santa Cruz Precinct, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
  • Grave: City of Nogales Cemetery, Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, Find A Grave <https://www.findagrave.com>

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:

Hugos Child
  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]

Sources
  • Cen 1900: 22 Jun 1900 Census, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1910: 16 Apr 1910 Census, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1920: 15 Jan 1920 Census, Fabiola Hospital, 3700 Broadway, Oakland, Alameda County, California
  • Cen 1930: 11 Apr 1930 Census, 4901 Lockhaven Avenue, (Eagle Rock) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
  • Cen 1940: 5 Apr 1940 Census, 2745 Melville Drive, San Marino, Los Angeles County, California
  • Draft 1942: 25 Feb 1942, World War II Draft Registration, Temple City, Los Angeles County, California
  • Dth 1950: Certificate of Death, San Marino, Los Angeles County, California, filed 8 Feb 1950
  • News 1968: The Daily Inter Lake, 2 Jun 1968, p. 24
  • Dth 1973: Certificate of Death, Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana, filed 6 Dec 1973
  • Obit 1973: “Mr. Ilee Hugos Service Tuesday”, The Daily Inter Lake, 5 Nov 1973, p. 2
  • Grave: Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, Find A Grave <https://www.findagrave.com>
  • Grave: Conrad Memorial Cemetery, Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana, Find A Grave <https://www.findagrave.com>

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:

Miller Children
  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.

Sources
  • Cen 1900: 22 Jun 1900 Census, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1910: 16 Apr 1910 Census, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1920: Feb 1920 Census, Corral de Piedra Precinct, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1930: 18 Apr 1930 Census, Township 9 (Guadalupe), Santa Barbara County, California
  • Cen 1940: 8 Apr 1940 Census, Township 9 (Guadalupe), Santa Barbara County, California

Harold Francis Miller (1900-1965)

Harold F. MILLER 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.

Sources
  • Cen 1900: 22 Jun 1900 Census, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1910: 16 Apr 1910 Census, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1920: 25 Feb 1920 Census, Branch Precinct, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
  • Cen 1940: 5 Apr 1940 Census, Huasna Road, Arroyo Grande Township, San Luis Obispo County, California