The early life of Mrs. Celia Jane Miller, born in 1855, and a feature for the Parkersburg News in 1939 by Cordelia Moellendick, concludes: “Once upon a time I manufactured a pair of shoes for myself ...

Wooden knives and forks whittled by her father at night out of hickory wood by the light of a pine knot torch were the only cutlery Mrs. Celia Jane Miller, of 1126 Latrobe street, [Parkersburg] ever ...