Martha Esther Simmons ¹

   Cause of her death was uremia and general debility.²

  General Notes:

Her daughter Beulah, Mrs. A. W. Linke, was the informant on her death certificate.

Miles, Esther M. (Simmons)
Funeral Services for Mrs. R. B. Miles, 83, Held Friday P. M.

Funeral services for Mrs. Esther Simmons Miles, wife of R. B. Miles of Eagle Lake, were held at the Live Oak Cemetery Friday afternoon, with the Rev. C. L. Boone, Baptist minister of Weimar, officiating.

Mrs. Miles was a former Live Oak citizen. She and her family for the past few years had been living in Eagle Lake. Brief services were held at the McCreary Funeral Home in Eagle Lake by Rev. C. O. Estes. The funeral cortege then proceeded to the Live Oak Cemetery, near here, where interment was made.

Mrs. Miles was born near Weimar on June 24, 1860. She was the last member of a group that organized the Live Oak Baptist Church. She was married to R. B. Miles on January 31, 1978, and to this union four children were born. Two of the children, Benard F. and William E. preceded her in death. She had been a member of the Baptist Church since early childhood, and was a charter member of the Live Oak Baptist Church.

Surviivors include her husband, R. B, Miles; one son, John H. Miles, and one daughter, Mrs. W. Linke of Eagle Lake. Other survivors are six grandchildren and one brother O. S. Simmons.

Many friends of the family extend sincere condolence.

Weimar Mercury, September 17, 1943

  Additional Information:

• FindAGrave: Memorial# 22900323.

Martha married Robert Boyd Miles, son of Rev John Steen Miles and Francis G. Hames, on 31 Jan 1878. (Robert Boyd Miles was born on 16 Mar 1853 in , Lafayette County, Mississippi,^{3 4} died on 9 Dec 1944 in Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas ^{3 4} and was buried on 11 Dec 1944 in Live Oak Cemetery, Colorado County, Texas ^{4 6}.)