Jeff Milam
8 January 1869 - 5 November 1959
Eliza Milam
20 July 1813 - 6 July 1904
Jefferson Milam
5 October 1802 - 26 November 1844
Dallas Morning
News
July 10, 1904
pg 24
MILAM-McKinney, Tex., July 7 - Mrs. Eliza
Milam died at her
home near Van Alstyne. She was the daughter of
Collin McKinney, for
whom Collin County and the City of McKinney
were named. Mrs.
Milam was a charter member of the First
Christian Church organized in Collin County.
 ELIZA McKINNEY MILAM
Daughter of
Collin McKinney and wife of Jefferson
Milam who was a nephew of Ben Milam of
Texas fame.
She
was the youngest of the four daughters
of Collin McKinney, by his
second wife, and was born July 20, 1813
in Kentucky. In 1824 she came
to what was then Bowie County, Texas
with her father, Collin McKinney,
and was married to Jefferson Milam about
1830, by whom she had ten
children.
Eliza
passed away on July 06, 1904. Although
her husband is buried at their
old homestead in east Texas, his name
was also engraved on her
tombstone in the Van Alstyne Cemetery
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