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HENRY CLINT MILLNER AND ERTIE SLINA REDDEN

Bertha L. Spencer

Henry and Ertie Millner

 

Henry Clint Millner (November 13, 1895-January 22, 1962) was born in the back of a wagon near Milan, Tennessee on the way to Trenton, Tennessee. When he was 14 he walked from Trenton to Sardis in his bare feet. In Sardis he boarded with Tommie Holland's family, for whom he worked for five years. Soon after he got to Sardis Henry met his future wife Ertie.

Ertie Slina Redden (January 17, 1898-February 3, 1984) was the daughter of James Franklin Redden and Betty Jane Elizabeth Jones Redden. She was born 1898, in the Liberty community of Decatur County. Henry Clint Millner and Ertie Redden were married June 15, 1915, in Sardis.

Children:

• Mildred Claris (August 28, 1916-September 7, 1916)
• Grapel May (January 30, 1919-January 31, 1919)
• Jessie (born & died November 4, 1919)
• Eva Lorene (born & died October 19, 1920)
• Adam Wylie (January 28, 1922-July 9, 1924)
• Raymond Henry (April 11, 1925-December 3, 1983), married Bertha Lorene Higgins, October 6, 1945
• Kenneth Ray (b. February 19, 1928), married Udie Lucille Helms, December 24, 1951
• Billy Glenn (b. March 3, 1932), married Annie May Rushing, May 11, 1952
• Mary Elizabeth (b. February 18, 1945), married Raymond Dayne Alexander, May 1, 1954
• Jimmy Neal (June 27, 1942-February 4, 1994), married Faye Cross, August 4, 1962

Henry and Ertie are buried at Sardis Cemetery. The infants are buried at Prospect Cemetery.

 

Millner Family and House (1953)

 

Detail from Photograph Above

 

Ertie and Henry Millner (1961)

 

Raymond, Kenneth, Mary, and Billy (1979)

 

Neal and Mary (1979)

 

Ertie Millner (1979)

 

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