This file is the text of the book, "South Dakota's Ziebach County,
History of the Prairie", published in 1982 by the Ziebach County
Historical Society, Dupree, SD
With Permission Jackie Birkland
 

http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/ziebach/history/chap16-2.txt
    
FRED N. MILLER

Fred N. Miller was born in Brown County, South Dakota on November 18, 1902, the second of the nine children of Walter C. Miller, Sr. and his wife, Eliza.

The family moved to Tolstoy, South Dakota in 1907 and lived in and around Tolstoy and later Onaka, South Dakota until they moved to Ziebach County in 1929. "Uncle Fred", as he was affectionately called by his family, bought the Maca place south of Dupree, and during his lifetime bought many other places, among them Miss Fielder's claim and the Clarence Potter land.

He lived at home with his parents until after their deaths, and a few years before he died he moved into Dupree. He never married, and died February 17, 1978.

Fred liked a good time and went to all the dances until his later years. He loved people, had many friends. He never liked to spend on himself, but was generous with his friends and family. There was nothing he liked better than to talk to strangers and tell them about Ziebach County -- I would like to have a record of the tall tales he must have spun!

But he loved this country -- to him it was the 'rose garden of the world'.