From Peter
White, via Mickey Harris:
"Jake
and Tinie Henley, and their children David and Linda
(this is the Aunt Linda who Holly [Hickler] and
children once visited in New York City and who I saw
in New York when I was at Columbia in 1966-1968) gave
to Jacob and Rosa Stein Miller a present at their
50th wedding anniversary party (the invitation said
"No Presents"). This present was a
golden nutshell inside of which was an oval of gold
inscribed on the front "1854.. Fifty Years.. In
a nutshell... 1904.. with love from... Jake. . ......
. Tinie" and on the back "Jake. . .........
David.. ......... Henley". Inside the
nutshell, attached side to side with the gold oval
were 35 oval pictures (perhaps 2 inches x I inch, the
same size and shape as the gold oval) which
more-or-less represent the descendants of Jacob and
Rosa, most of them living and attending the
party. Someone had written names on the back of
each picture (very helpful!), including the later
married names of some of the girls. I saw this
amazing collection of photographs and the gold oval
at S. Miller Harris's house in Quakertown, PA, on
July 5, 1999. Apparently Miller also had the
gold nutshell, but we didn't see that. This
collection of pictures helped me identify all of the
William W. Miller children for the first time and
also gave the clue that his middle initial W. was for
Wolf....
...These
35 pictures account for all of the living descendants
of Jacob and Rosa Miller in 1904, plus two of the
three who had died before 1904: son Emmanuel and
grandchild Baby Rose. One other grandchild died in
1888 and is not pictured -- Betram Miller
(1887-1888). No other grandchildren were born, so
this is a complete set. The pictures include Rosa, 6
children, 5 spouses of children, 21 grandchildren, 1
spouse of a grandchild (Aaron Miller), and 1
great-grandchild (Florence Miller Traub)."
