Wife of David Paris Miller.
Daughter of Horace Maynard & Mary Melinda (Burnett) Rouse Brogan.
Mary Melinda Rouse's mother Zelphia Rouse (Caroline's grandmother) is at the center of a family mystery.
No records exist to say who the father of Zelphia's children was, including Mary Melinda.
Family historians are quite certain that Mary Malinda's father was a Burnett, but no one knows for sure which Burnett. My immediate line does not have this information. Just who was my Gr-Gr Grandfather? Those who knew are likely gone now.

1920 Census, Caroline is living with her mother and father, along with her siblings and her sisters Ica Janes Souders children:
Maynard Brogan 63
Mary Brogan 57
Icy J Brogan 24
Caroline Brogan 17
George W Brogan 12
Clardy Souders 4
Alta Souders 1
Alma Souders 1

In 1930 she is living with her sister Ica Jane. They are all farming the land:

Name: Ieyjam Brogan
Home in 1930: District 6, Union, Tennessee
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Age: 34
Estimated birth year: abt 1896
Birthplace: Tennessee
Relation to Head of House: Head

Household Members: Name Age
Ieyjam Brogan 34
Claudy Brogan 14
Alta Brogan 12
Alma Brogan 12
George Brogan 22
Carline Brogan 27

Many of the Brogans had thick dark hair when young that turned grey/white early.

Caroline's health was fragile. She suffered from heart and other ailments. Her children took up quite a bit of the chores from a early age, along with their father. Her son Tom missed near a full year of school (2nd grade I believe) to stay home to help his mother. I remember her as seldom leaving the house, frail and soft spoken. I recall only once that she ever came to Michigan to visit us, in all the years we were growing up.

On the other hand, my father Tom, whom had moved to Michigan, right out of High School, would travel back and forth to Tennessee almost every weekend in the beginning.

Years later, after he had married and had children, he made the trip once or twice each year and never missed a year. She loved when her son would bring us all from Michigan to visit and she would cry when we would leave. She would say "Stay just one more day".

She would often give us children change to go buy ourselves candy at "Baby Ray's" (French)store across the street.

She called a soda pop a "dope" and she drank TAB.

She liked knicknacks and had lots of them which I found fascinating to look at as a child. She smelled of Jergen's lotion:)

She liked cats and would feed the strays outside that would come to the house. In the morning, you could find over a dozen cats, stopping by to be fed. Her son Tom would also inherit her love of cats and kept an outdoor cat always. They always seem to find him:)

The Millers all enjoyed pets, which must be where I too, get my love of dogs.

Caroline always wore her hair all one length, in a short bob. Her hair was very dark while young, but turned grey very early on and became almost white in later years.

Her home was humble. No running water. We drank from a bucket/ladle in the kitchen and washed up in wash bowls. Tom recalled in the winter months, an ice pick next to the bucket of water in the kitchen to break through the top layer of ice. Tom studied by oil lamp until he was 16, the year they first had electric, in the late 40s. There was an outhouse. There was also a stream that ran through the back yard at the bottom of the hill. There was a porch off the back to sit on and look over the creek. Her last years she and Dave lived in a trailer outside of the house which was in disrepair. At the time of her passing in the early eighties, they never had running water or indoor plumbing.