Harris Wood Miers

b. 14 December 1904, d. 14 March 1973
  • Harris Wood Miers was born on 14 December 1904 in Texas or possibly 1905.
  • Robert Newton Miers and Lizzie Harris Wood appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Cement City, Dallas County, Texas. Other members of the household included Harris Wood Miers, Robert Newton Miers Jr., Hudson Stuck Miers, Catherine Wood Miers and Thomas J. Erwin.
  • Robert Newton Miers and Lizzie Harris Wood appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Dallas, Texas, at 5819 Richmond Avenue and also widow Elizabeth Miers, age 41 or 47, identified as an aunt (?). Other members of the household included Harris Wood Miers, Robert Newton Miers Jr., Hudson Stuck Miers and Catherine Wood Miers.
  • Harris Wood Miers appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in University Park, Dallas County, Texas, at 2916? Rosedale lodging in the household of printer Jack S. Poole.
  • He was a mechanical engineer, pipe contracting, according to the 1930 census.
  • He married Erma Grace Richardson in 1931.
  • He and Lizzie Harris Wood, Robert Newton Miers Jr., Hudson Stuck Miers and Catherine Wood Miers was mentioned in the obituary of Robert Newton Miers that appeared on 24 December 1944 in The Dallas Morning News: Robert Newton Miers, 4533 South Versailles, native of Dallas and purchasing agent of the Lone Star Cement Corporation with which he had been identified for thirty-six years, died Saturday at his home after a long illness.
         He was former president of the National Association of Purchasing Agents.
         Newton spent most of his life in Dallas but was with the Lone Star Cement Corporation in New York for several years.
         His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Miers, pioneer Dallas settlers.
         He attended Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind., and was a member of the Church of Incarnation, Episcopal, where he was formerly a senior warden. As a boy he sang in the St. Matthews Cathedral choir.
         Surviving are his wife, three sons, Robert N. Miers Jr., Milwaukee, Wis., Harris W. Miers, Dallas, and Sgt. Hudson Stuck Miers, United States Army Air Forces, Orlando, Fla., and a daughter, Mrs. Harold F. Thompson, Dallas.
  • He officially witnessed the death of Lizzie Harris Wood on 11 July 1945 at Gaston Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
  • The following appeared on 14 July 1945 in The Dallas Morning News: Funeral services for Mrs. Kittie Wood Miers, of 4533 South Versailles, native Texan and Dallas resident more than forty years, were held Friday morning at the Church of the Incarnation. The Rev. C. Gresham Marmion officiated. Burial was in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
         She was born in Forney. Her husband, the late Robert Newton Miers, former purchasing agent for Lone Star Cement Corporation, died last Dec. 23.
         Surviving Mrs. Miers are three sons, Robert N. Miers Jr., Wisconsin; Sgt. Hudson S. Miers, United States Army, Orlando, Fla; and Harris W. Miers, Dallas; a daughter, Mrs. Harold Thompson, Dallas, and seven grandchildren.
  • At the time of his death Harris Wood Miers was living in Dallas, Texas, at 5629 Walnut Hill Lane.
  • Harris Wood Miers died on 14 March 1973 at age 68 in Dallas, Texas.
  • His wife Erma Grace Richardson became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Hillcrest Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
  • The following appeared on 16 March 1973 in The Dallas Morning News: Funeral services for Harris Wood Miers Sr., 67, of 5629 Walnut Hill Lane, who retired in 1963 as a realtor and developer, will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Funeral Chapel, 7405 W. Northwest Nighway. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
         Miers died here Wednesday.
         A lifelong resident of Dallas, Miers attended Southern Methodist University and was a member of the Church of the Incarnation.
         Miers is survived by his wife, Sally, three sons and two daughters.
  • Last Edited: 12 Nov 2015

Family: Erma Grace Richardson b. 6 March 1914, d. 1 March 2011