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born in 1858, in Mississippi. Amanda is buried in Pearlington cemetery with a headstone that reads “Jan. 25, 1857-Mar. 21, 1951.” They had the following:
1.	Eunice Beyer - bom on September 4, 1880, married Leonard Kemball “Kem” Russ, son of Earnest Russ (see our Jean Baptiste D’auby Family History for more information), and resided last in Picayune. They had one child called John that married Edna Harris and lived in Picayune. John and Edna had three girls: Charlotte, Glenda, and Kimball.
2.	Christiana E. “Tena” Beyer - bom on November 4, 1882 and married William “Abner” Hursey, son of Asa Hursey and Laura Jane Orr (see our D’auby History for more information on her). She lived and died in Pearlington and had:
a.	William Hursey - married Alberta Jones, resided in Pearlington, and had: William Jr., Deloris, and Sylvia.
b.	Lottie Hursey - married Joseph Casanova, resided in New Orleans, LA, and had one son: Glenn who resided in New Orleans, LA (see our D’auby History for this family).
c.	Eva Hursey - married Thomas A. Dean, Jr. and resided in Pearlington with children: Thomas, in and Linda.
3.	Theophilus M. “Off” Beyer - bom on April 7, 1885, married Nellie Provost from Slidell, LA, and resided in Pearlington, MS. They have one son, John Earl Beyer who lived in Slidell, LA.
4.	John M. Beyer - bom on April 7, 1887, never married, and lived in Pearlington, MS all of his life.
5.	Charles Beyer — bom on April 17, 1889, married Lilly Whitfield, resided in Palmetto, LA, and had no children. Buried in Turtleskin cemetery.
6.	Eva Beyer - bom in March 1895, married Ishem Hardee, resided in Metairie, LA and had no children. She wrote to us late in 1976 with helpful information.
B.	Warren Miller - was bom in 1861 in LA, as found in the 1880 census of St. Tammany Parish where he was living with his mother that year. When he was a young man, around the 1890’s, he killed a man by the name of (first name unknown) Cradock on the Louisiana side of the Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish. The killing was over a cow that Cradock supposedly took. After the shooting, the law was after Warren so he moved to somewhere in Texas and contact was lost with him over the years. No one knows what became of him, other than he was in the log and piling business there.
C.	Thomton Miller - bom in 1863 in LA, as listed in the 1880 St. Tammy, LA census while living with his mother. He married Martha F. Smith on April 27, 1890 (she later married Wilson Rester in 1893 in Harrison County after Thomton died young and had several more children) and resided in Gainesville, MS. He is buried in the Sellers cemetery in that area. Thomton died at around 27 years old. Thornton and Martha Miller had:
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