As for keeping in touch with other riders, I can remember one coming by to see my father at his business. He told us that this man, Eugene Miller, came from the Children's Aid Society. However, Eugene came about six years before my father.

Eugene Miller was a thin sickly lad of eight, lost and almost dead when he was found in New York City. He remembered that his mother was taken to the Bellevue Hospital in New York City in January, 1906, and that was the last time that he saw her. The records of the hospital show that she was discharged. They were living at 152 East 128th Street, New York City.

His father has died some time before. He knew that he had a brother and a sister, but never heard from any of them. He was turned over to the New York Children's Aid Society and then sent to Texas to live on a farm.

He was taken by the Ben F. Boyd family who lived near Garner in Parker County. Ben F. Boyd had twelve children, but only three daughters and their mother were left at home by themselves, when they took the responsibility of raising Eugene Miller.

Eugene worked on the farm, and attended school at Garner. He worked his way through Weatherford College and Southern Methodist University at Dallas. Then desiring to take a law course at the University of Texas, he ran for the legislature so that he could be in Austin and go to college at the same time. In the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth Legislature, he was one of the youngest members. He continued to work in politics, and it was while he was seeking reelection in 1948 that he was needlessly shot down in cold blood. He was at home with the Boyd sisters when this happened about nine o'clock at night. Eugene Miller's murder could still be an unsolved mystery.