Ora Carolyn (Lynn) Miller, married Herman Lee Watlington at Athens,
Tenn., in December 1944. Her parents were Ezekiel Ora Miller
(1900-1996) and Carrie Lee Ayres (1905-1994), who lived long years
on a few acres just south of Athens, Tenn., where they built their
home and for many years cultivated a few acres of tobacco. ``Zeke''
worked as a boiler maker on the railroad some years and then at other
metal manufacturing jobs. Farming was not his major employment, but a
sideline. They reared two daughters, Ora Carolyn and Mary Fern,
offering them the opportunity of higher education at nearby Tennessee
Wesleyan College.
They were active Methodists with Carrie's grandfather, Rev. Robert
Owen Ayres (1831-1907), being a Methodist Circuit Rider from Ohio who
moved south. He was born in Hillsboro, Ohio and married Eliza Smith
(b. 1835, in Pennsylvania, d. 1904). Robert and Eliza
retired and died in McMinn Co., Tenn.
Their ancestral lineage is given in a Family Genealogy Book of
McMinn Co., Tenn.[41] which was found in the Chattanooga
Public Library in 1987-88; and also in The Family of Samuel
Henderson (1786-1867) of Monroe County, Tenn.[42] by
Reba Henderson Mitchell
. Both Carolyn and Fern have descendents to
add to the lineage now.