John and Matilda Miles
From the Margaret Hartman files at the Campbell County
Historical Society
John Miles was born in Scotland and came to America about 1795 settling in
Frederick County Maryland. He was married there about 1820 to Matilda
Poole, daughter of Henry Poole. In the spring of 1828 he moved his family
to Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky. They went in a covered wagon,
crossing the Ohio River to Limestone, Ky. He died in Hopkinsville in 1835.
His wife was married a second time to a Mr. Boyd.
Children of John Miles and Matilda Poole
1. Charles Miles; m _____, lived and died in Hopkinsville leaving
five your children orphaned
2. John H Miles; m-Frances Mary Griffey, daughter of William Griffey and Elizabeth
Baker, 29 Dec 1846 in Campbell County; had Lizzie who m-George Weaver
3. Samuel Thomas Miles; b-28 Feb 1823 in Baltimore, Frederick, Maryland; d-16 June 1912 in Fredmond Ky.
br-Spring Grove Cemetery; m-Mary Jeannette Beall, daughter of
Benjamin Duke
Beall and Maria Thomas, 11 Nov 1846 in Campbell County
4. Edward S Miles
Will of Henry Poole of Christian County Oct 1835, Probated Aug 1837
"To my grandson William Henry Sassen, son of John P Sassen, and to my two daughters Sally Recketts and Matilda Boyd..."
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Children of Charles Miles and ________
1. Josephine-m Samuel C Shaw, born 20 July 1845, the son of
Edward Shaw and Rosanna R Baker; had daughter Harriet
2. Lida Beall-m Wesley Wilson
3. Sallie-m ____ Harris of Independence Ky.
4. Beall
5. Samuel-m Dixie ___, lived in Elizabethtown Ky.
Samuel Thomas Miles left Hopkinsville in 1837 and worked his way on a steamboat up the Ohio River to Cincinnati. He then crossed the River to Newport and walked out to Alexandria, having no definite object in going there. He did any odd jobs available and finally worked up a good tailoring business.
He bought a farm two miles north of Alexandria on which he built a house. When he had finished paying for the land and the house he was married. Upon hearing that the children of his brother, Charles had become orphaned, he went down and got them, bringing them home to raise with his own six children. He wanted to have all of the children receive a good education and as the nearest "good" school available was the Pettit School at Cold Spring, he bought a bus to get them there and back home.
He secured a contract to carry the mail between Alexandria and Newport, also carrying passengers, express, etc. For a time he was a postmaster in Covington. He and his wife are buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.
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Children of Samuel Thomas Miles and Mary Jeannette Beall
1. Maria V Miles b-28 Apr 1848 in Alexandria; d-11 Sep 1856
in Alexandria
2. Charles Poole Miles b-17 Sep 1850 in Alexandria; d-26 Dec 1882 in Cincinnati;
br-Spring Grove Cemetery
3. Sarah Beall Miles d-1 Apr 1853 in Alexandria; d-29 Dec 1919 in Erlanger Ky.
br-Spring Grove Cemetery; m-Henley Woodward Smith
4. Benjamin Duke Miles b-18 Feb 1856 in Alexandria; d-7 Feb 1931 in Chicago; br-Spring
Grove Cemetery; m-___Bach
5. Matilda Boyd Miles b-11 May 1859 in Alexandria; d-13 Nov 1948 in Zellienople,
Butler, Pennsylvania; br-Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati; m-Hugh Carlton Hinman; daughter Mary m-____Brett
6. Nellie V Miles b-10 July 1862 in Alexandria; d-18 July 1862
7. Hugh Knox Miles b-31 Oct 1865 in Alexandria; d-16 Apr 1949 in Clearwater Florida; m-Anna Lehler 24 May
1887; both buried Spring Grove Cemetery
8. Lida Beall Miles b-1867 in Alexandria; d-20 May 1891 in Covington; m-Wesley B
Wilson
9. Samuel Thomas Miles b-1868 in Alexandria
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Children of Sarah Beall Miles and Henley Woodward Smith
1. Miles Woodward Smith b-23 Nov 1889 in Cincinnati; m-Elizabeth B Arnold 25 June 1913
Children of Miles Woodward Smith and Elizabeth B Arnold
1. Dorothy Woodward Smith
2. Hugh Arnold Smith
3. Marjorie Kemper Smith
4. Robert Smith
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Children of Lida Beall Miles and Wesley B Wilson
1. Grace Wilson b-23 Aug 1877 in Independence,
Ky. d-20 Jan 1911 in Covington; br-St Mary's Cemetery in Ft Mitchell; m-Maurice
Lee Galvin, brother of John G Galvin, mayor
of Cincinnati
2. Henrietta Wilson b-Apr 1880 in Independence
3. Miles Rohrer Wilson b-12 Jan 1883 in Independence; d-26 Dec 1918 in Covington
3. Hansford Berry Wilson b-25 Feb 1885 in Independence; d-Feb 1961 in Dade
Florida
4. Earl Dunlap Wilson b-1886 in Covington; d-16 Apr 1910 in Covington; br-Independence
Cemetery
5. Rawl Wilson killed in football accident at Annapolis Naval Academy
6. L B Wilson b-20 May 1891 in Covington; named after his mother who died the night he was born; owner of radio
station WCKY in Cincinnati, the L B Wilson Radio Station, until the time of his
death, 28 Oct 1954 in Cincinnati.