Miles married the half-sister, Patsy, of his first wife, Ann, after Ann's death.105
Miles Vernon was a Tennessee State Senator in 1835 and 1836 for the districts comprising Rhea, Bledsoe, Marion, and Hamilton counties. In Missouri, he served as State Senator for 20 years, until the Civil War.
Col. Miles Vernon was in the military service escorting Indians West of the Mississippi river, and on one of these trips he found an ideal place to locate in what is now LeClede County, Missouri. In 1839 he organized a dozen famlies in Sevier County, Tennessee, and emigrated to that place. In this emigrant train was John Atchley and his family. The emigrants left Tennessee by ox team in September, and arrived in LeClede County, Missouri, in December.105 |
