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Note: The Missouri Digital Heritage site has a letter from Martha Varner Hornaday to her son David Varner Miller on May 5, 1861. She tells about an inheritance Minos Miller should get and about all the sickness at the Whites', a neighbor's, house.
Letters from William Temple Hornaday to his half-brother David Varner Miller are dated 19 February 1864 and 4 May 1864. Hornaday is ten years of age, and has been ill over the winter of 1863-64. The transcript of the 19 February letter concerns neighborhood events, such as illnesses, deaths and marriages (�Sim Beedle is married�), and the revelation that �old Mr. Shocky sells whiskey.� William informs his half-brother that he has been carving wood figures over the winter and implores him �not to laugh at them for it is the best I can do.� The letter dated 4 May 1864 notes that Minos Miller�s regiment (the 54th Iowa Colored Infantry at this time) is at Little Rock, under the command of Colonel John E. Cone.
Letters to David Varner Miller from his uncle Allen Varner mostly discuss real estate and real estate related debts. A letter from Varner to Miller (6 February 1908) also concerns reconstruction and the �race question". (From the Michael H. Miller collection, 1834-2000 , at the Indiana Historical Society Collection #P 0385,OM 0432,BV 3454-BV 3458 http://www.indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/p0385.html#HISTORICAL)
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