| Name | John Henry MILLER Jr. |
| Birth | 20 Jun 1812, Abbeville Dist. S.C. |
| Death | 22 Mar 1863, Ripley MS |
| Occupation | Minister |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Father | Dr. John Henry MILLER (1777-1851) |
| Mother | Jane Bonneau PICKENS (1774-1848) |
Dr. Miller moved with his father to Selma, Dallas Dounty, Alabama, when he was quite young. He moved to Pontotoc in 1838, settling in the Bankhead Community east of town. He was educated in private schoools and at Centre College in Davnville, Kentucky and the University of Miami in Ohio.
Soon after settling in Pontotoc he organized the Spring Hill Old School Presbyterian Church in the Bankhead Community. He was assisted by Father Stuart, the missionary to the Indians. Of the seven original members of this church five were of the name Miller.
In the War Between the States the Rev. Miller advanced to the rank of Lt. Col. He was murdered on March 22, 1863 by Yankee renegades while enroute to Ripley, Mississippi to fill a preaching engagement.
John Henry Miller entered Centre College, Danville, Kentucky in 1828 where he studied three years, failing health prevented his graduation. He joined Valley Creek Pres. Church in Dallas Co. Alabama Nov. 1, 1832, but soon transferred to Miami. In 1835 the family moved to Pontotoc, Mississippi. In Miss. he became a planter and a Presbyterian Minister. He served out a vacancy in the Mississippi legislature. Became Captain, then Major and later Lt. Col of the First Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. In 1848 he entered seminary at Albany Indiana, remained three months, called home because of an outbreak of cholera among the negroes of the plantation and he became infected while waiting on them and was ill many weeks. Did not return to siminary but contined studies in private. He was lecensed by Chickasaw Presbytery at College Hill Church near Oxford, Miss. on Oct. 5, 1850 and began his ministry in Wellington Church in Tallahatchie Co. Miss. He was in the Battle of Shiloh and of Corinth. He was killed one Sunday morning while on his way to fill an appointment on March 22, 1863. Supposedly his murderers were disgruntled soldiers who had served under him at Corinth.
| 1 | Eliza D. GIVHAN |
| Birth | 23 Jan 1815 |
| Marriage | 27 Nov 1838 |
| Children | Martha Jane (1839-) |
| Mary Eliza (1840-1932) | |
| Edwin Givham (1842-1863) | |
| John Jacob (Died as Child) (1844-1852) | |
| Margaret Steadman (Died as Infant) (1846-1846) | |
| Louise Bergman (1847-) | |
| Robert James (Jim) (1848-1938) | |
| Sarah Noble (1850-) | |
| Archibald Alexander (Died as Child) (1853-1854) | |
| Henry (1855-1890) | |
| Katherine Pickens (1856-) | |
| Andrew Pickens (-<1860) | |
| Corinne (1859-1882) |