I've always had an issue in my Family Tree. My grandmother (Billie Delora Crane Preston) told me, back when I was a kid starting my interest in genealogy, that her maternal grandparents were John Coleman Miller and Kate Hays. The only corroboration I've found through the years was a 1900 Census entry for a John C Miller (with a Nancy Hayes as a m-i-l) in Kaufman County, TX. The wife's name was Sydney C. Miller though. (C for Catherine?) They have a daughter, Ruby, the right age to be my great grandmother.

Yesterday I found J Cole Miller and Kate Miller entries in Locust Grove Cemetery in Hiram, Kaufman County. This brings up the other problem. The cemetery reference shows that he died Dec. 3, 1915. Other references I've found show that Ma, my ggrandmother, may have been adopted between 1900 & 1910 by the Dewees family. Not much reason for adoption if her father was alive.

I really need to get to Kaufman county and check the headstones.