MISC. "VAN ALSTYNE LEADER" WRITE-UPS BEFORE AND AFTER HER DEATH. STILL SEARCHING FOR AN OBITUARY.

1. "Mrs. Jake Miller is much improved this week," - Saturday, May 19, 1900. Page 4.

2. "Mrs. Jake Miller is very sick." - Saturday. October 20, 1900. Page 2.

3. "Mrs. J. W. Steele of Van Alstyne attended the burial of Mrs. Miller here Friday." - Saturday, December 1, 1900. Page 4.

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Daughter of, John R. Dicken and Martha Tallent Dicken. She married, Jacob Warren Miller on, November 11, 1875 in, Clinton County, Kentucky. They had four children in Kentucky: John Clinton, James William, Jacob Almorine and Lula. In the mid 1880's they moved to Cannon, Texas and had five more children: Dr. Edward Miller, Esther, Dixie, Clyde and Beecher.

Family rumor is that Bell had a miscarriage on the wagon ride from Kentucky to Texas and they buried the baby in an unknown cemetery. The 1900 Census mentions two deceased children (Ester and Miller Baby).

Her real name is, Isabella[1] [2], but she also went by, Isabel and Bell.

Isabella was a, house wife, seamstress, farmer, and music lover.

According to two descendants of, J. R. Dickens and Martha Tallent, "All Dickens Family loved to sing and play music!"[3][4]

Bell passed away in, 1900 and was buried at, Cannon Cemetery beside her daughter, Ester. [5][6]

Sources
↑ Year: 1880; Census Place: Neathery and Shelly, Clinton, Kentucky; Roll: 410; Page: 611B; Enumeration District: 029
↑ 1880 United States Census, data base with images, Ancestry.com (2010) (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 Dec 2018), J. W. Miller; Isabella A. Miller; John C. Miller; James W. Miller; Jacob A. Miller. Neathery and Shelly, Clinton, Kentucky; Roll: 410; Family History Film: 1254410; Page: 611B; Enumeration District: 29; Image: 0429.
↑ Marty Dicken, Personal Conversation, 2017
↑ Karen Kruse, Personal Conversation, Summer 2017
↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 04 January 2019), memorial page for Isabella Almorine "Bell" Dicken Miller (22 Jan 1858–22 Nov 1900), Find A Grave Memorial no. 40722065, citing Cannon Cemetery, Cannon, Grayson County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by Katrina Dawn Miller--UDC--Sherman, TX. (contributor 48103182).
↑ *Hill, Donna. Cannon Cemetery Inscriptions. Historical Reflection Publishing. Tom Bean, Texas: Page 25.

(Biography researched and written by, Katrina Dawn Miller (Bell's GGG Granddaughter). I have copied this biography to all major geneaology websites: Ancestry, Family Search, Geni and Wiki Tree, so nobody can cut copy and paste it claiming they wrote it.)