Descendants of Lucas Coleman Milam

1. LUCAS COLEMAN MILAM (THOMAS FERRILL⁵, COLEMAN⁴, THOMAS³, JOHN², UNKNOWN FATHER OF THE VIRGINIA¹ MILAMS) was born March 03, 1836 in Franklin County, Tennessee, and died April 26, 1908 in Lowes Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas. He married SUSAN EMALINE HOYLE March 14, 1871 in Franklin County, Arkansas, daughter of JAMES HOYLE and JANE PENDERGRASS. She was born June 25, 1851 in Ozark, Franklin County, Arkansas, and died May 04, 1891 in Lowes Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas.

Notes for Lucas Coleman Milam:
In November 1861, he, his father, and his brother, Thomas F. Milam, Jr., age 17, enlisted in the Confederate States Army at Fort Smith, Arkansas. All three served in the 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA.  Following the Battle of Pea Ridge/Elkhorn Tavern in March 1862, his father died in the Confederate Hospital near Van Buren, Arkansas.  Lucas was captured at Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, paroled, and sent home in September 1862.  Under the conditions of his parole, Lucas swore to become a non-belligerent. Apparently, this is just what he did, until 1864, when he was forced into the Union Army.

In January 1864, the Union Army overran and occupied northern Arkansas.  Lucas, his brother Calaway Jackson Milam, and every able bodied man in Franklin County, Arkansas, were conscripted into the 18th Iowa Infantry Regiment. Following the war, he returned to farming and from time to time, he and his brother Calaway owned and operated gins in Franklin County.

Children of LUCAS MILAM and SUSAN HOYLE are:

i. ARTHUR LAVOYETTE MILAM, b. March 04, 1872, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. July 11, 1952, Fort Smith, Arkansas; m. SUSAN REBECCA WOODWARD, September 04, 1892, Franklin County, Arkansas; b. July 08, 1872, prob Cheatham County, Tennessee; d. January 07, 1945.

ii. BERTHA VIOLA MILAM, b. November 05, 1882, Lows Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. February 04, 1965, Paris, Arkansas; m. WILLIE KIRK COOPER; b. December 30, 1881, poss near Webb City, Arkansas; d. April 29, 1958, Paris, Arkansas.

iii. AMANDA VIRGINIA "JENNY" MILAM, b. February 09, 1874, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. April 04, 1891, Lows Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas.

iv. JAMES MONTGOMERY MILAM, b. September 05, 1875, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. August 28, 1955, Paris, Arkansas; buried Lows Creek Cemetery; m. SUSAN MILBURN JACO, October 16, 1898; b. September 04, 1878, Putnam County, Tennessee; d. January 10, 1933, Lows Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas; buried Lows Creek Cemetery.

v. JOSEPH LAFAYETTE MILAM, b. May 18, 1877, Lows Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. October 16, 1957, Ozark, Arkansas; m. HENRIETTA BURCHAM, 1896; b. March 09, 1878, Home of Abijah Burcham; Franklin County, Arkansas; d. February 18, 1973, Fort Smith, Arkansas.

vi. LORENZO DOW MILAM, SR., b. December 25, 1878, Lowes Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. August 31, 1946, near Lowes Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas; m. DOVIE EUGENIA PENDERGRASS, December 14, 1906, Franklin County, Arkansas; b. January 12, 1886, Giles County, Tennessee; d. June 17, 1973, Santa Paula, California.

vii. MALINDA FLORENCE MILAM, b. April 08, 1880, Lows Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. February 08, 1900, Lows Creek, Franklin Cty, Arkansas.

Notes for MALINDA FLORENCE MILAM:
VMR: She died of TB.  In November 1899, she insisted that the family get together for a group picture, and to please her, they all agreed.  She was ill with TB at the time.  She died 3 months later.  The photo above is that picture.

viii. PEARLIE AUGUSTA MILAM, b. May 24, 1885, Lows Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. April 18, 1924, Little Rock, Arkansas; m. HORACE ISAAC BRYAN, April 03, 1904, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; b. April 10, 1879, Peter Pender, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. April 24, 1936, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Notes for PEARLIE AUGUSTA MILAM:
VMR: She died of TB

ix. STELLA MAY MILAM, b. March 08, 1887, Lows Creek, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. March 10, 1932, Shady Point, Oklahoma; m. WILLIAM HENRY WILLIAMS, September 18, 1910, Franklin County, Arkansas; b. September 09, 1883, probably Giles County, Tennessee; d. January 21, 1923.

Notes for STELLA MAY MILAM:
VMR: She died of TB, like her mother and 2 sisters.