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"Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., published in 1896

Miles W. Liner, farmer, Tallapoosa, Haralson Co., Ga., son of Christopher D. and Sarah Liner, was born in Carroll county,

Ga., May 26, 1836. His parents went from Walton county, Ga., to Mississippi, in 1835, but returned to Georgia and settled

 in Carroll county early in 1836. Mr. Liner was raised in Carroll county and was educated at the "old-field" common schools,

 taught in the dirt floor log cabins. He was exempt from military service during the war on account of physical disability. Mr.

 Liner was married Sept. :23, 1858, to Miss Marguerite E., daughter of Robert A. and Jane Katharine Read of Carroll county,

by whom he has had sixteen children: George Alexander, Henry Wise, Sarah Katharine, John Franklin, Robert Christopher,

Mary Elizabeth, Susan Indiana, James Quitman, Harvey Washington, Rhoda Malighty, Madison, Van Buren, Jefferson,
Malachi, Emma Rosella, and Simeon Jack son (deceased). Mr. Liner is a well-to-do farmer, respected by everybody,

unambitious, and content with the generous yield of his  well-cultivated lands.

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