MILLER, THOMAS R. (1795-1836). Thomas R. Miller, Alamo defender, was born in Tennessee in 1795. He immigrated to Texas in June 1830 and settled in DeWitt's colony, where he owned a general store and farmed. On March 11, 1832, he married sixteen-year-old Sidney Gaston by bond. Their one child died in infancy. The couple separated on July 21, 1833. Miller served as clerk of the Gonzales Town Council, and in 1834 his home served as its meetingplace. At the outbreak of the Texas Revolution he was one of the original Old Eighteen, defenders of the Gonzales "Come and Take It" cannon. From November 3 to 14, 1835, he served as a member of the Consultation. On March 1, 1836, Miller entered the Alamo as a member of the relief force from Gonzales, furnishing supplies for the company from his general store. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Albert Curtis, Remember the Alamo Heroes (San Antonio: Clegg, 1961). Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990). Ethel Zivley Rather, "DeWitt's Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 8 (October 1904).
