{"id":198,"date":"2012-04-08T01:54:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T05:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-04-08T01:54:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T05:54:35","slug":"miller-annie-laura-johnston-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/miller-annie-laura-johnston-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"MILLER, Annie Laura Johnston (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Transcribed by Stephen Carroll Pearsall\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mrs. Annie Laura Miller of Rocky Point Dies at 100\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mrs. Annie Laura Johnston Miller<\/strong>, of Rocky Point, who recently was honored on her one hundreth birthday, died Friday night at her residence after a lengthy illness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mrs. Miller was born in Pender County Oct. 3, 1869, the daughter of the late <strong>James H. and Margaret Westbrook Johnston<\/strong>. She moved with her family from New Hanover County to Rocky Point Community in 1895 and has made her home there since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She was the widow of <strong>Christopher Jesse Miller<\/strong>, a Pender native, who died in August of 1911.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Survivors include one son, <strong>C. James Miller<\/strong> of Rocky Point, two daughters, <strong>Mrs. H. G. (Ethel) Speir<\/strong> of the home, and <strong>Mrs. C. B. (Annie) Morris<\/strong>, Wilmington; three sisters, <strong>Mrs. John R. Morriss<\/strong> and <strong>Mrs. Lottie K. Johnston<\/strong> both of Wilmington, and <strong>Mrs. Lillie Woodbury<\/strong> of Jacksonville; 13 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren and 7 great great grandchildren.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 o&#8217;clock in the chapel of Andrews\u00a0Mortuary, Wilmington by the <strong>Rev. J. M. Rice<\/strong>. Burial was in the Acorn Branch Cemetery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pallbearers were <strong>Fred A. Jordan, Joe George Johnston, Colon Kerr, Horace Woodbury, R. Charles Morris, and R. A. Armstrong<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: Pender Chronicle, Burgaw, NC, November 19, 1969<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcribed by Stephen Carroll Pearsall\u00a0 Mrs. Annie Laura Miller of Rocky Point Dies at 100\u00a0 Mrs. Annie Laura Johnston Miller, of Rocky Point, who recently was honored on her one hundreth birthday, died Friday night at her residence after a lengthy illness.\u00a0 Mrs. Miller was born in Pender County Oct. 3, 1869, the daughter of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/miller-annie-laura-johnston-1969\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MILLER, Annie Laura Johnston (1969)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12207],"tags":[12181,12209,6950,12215,12208,12211,12213,12210,12212],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individualobituary","tag-armstrong","tag-johnston","tag-jordan","tag-kerr","tag-miller","tag-morriss","tag-rice","tag-speir","tag-woodbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}