Anderson Roscoe Miller (1830-1905), son of Imla Nunn Miller (1801-1857) of Lenoir County, N.C., graduated in medicine at Cincinnati, and in dentistry at Baltimore. In 1857 he married Delia Maria Henry (1835-1884), a native of Waterbury, Vermont. Miss Henry, educated in Vermont and New York, and proficient in French, Spanish, and Latin had taught schools in Vermont and Florida before coming to Lenoir County, N.C., to teach the children of Mr. Miller's cousin, Mrs. Frank Thompson. After their marriage the Millers moved to Wisconsin where their first daughter, Sybil, was born in June, 1858.

Later that year the family returned to Kinston, N.C., where they were joined briefly by Mrs. Miller's younger sister, Sybil Henry, who, too, came south to teach. The Millers' second daughter, Maud, was born in the spring of 1861, and shortly thereafter Mrs. Miller took her daughters to visit her family in Vermont. Here she remained during the first year of the Civil War. The surrender to U.S. forces of all but one of the North Carolina coastal towns during the first half of 1862 opened the way for Mrs. Miller's return to Kinston. She returned in the autumn of 1862, leaving her daughter Sybil with her kinspeople in Vermont. She arrived in federally occupied New Bern just as preparations were under way for a federal military expedition to destroy the railroad facilities at Goldsboro. Consequently Mrs. Miller was detained and not allowed to go on to Kinston until December 18, after the campaign had ended. During the remainder of the war Mrs. Miller remained in Kinston until the fall of Forts Fisher and Anderson early in 1865. She managed to get through the federal lines at New Bern and to embark for Vermont to visit her family and retrieve her daughter Sybil. After the war Mrs. Miller proved herself an astute merchant and businesswoman in Kinston.

Dr. and Mrs. Miller's daughter, Sybil Henry Miller (1858-1933) married Dr. Henry Otis Hyatt (1848-1922) in February 1877. Dr. Hyatt, a native of Tarboro, first studied medicine under Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman (1818-1893) and subsequently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's school of medicine in 1868. Dr. Hyatt moved his practice to Kinston in 1872. Here he was very successful, establishing a private hospital, or sanatorium for the treatment of chronic disease, in 1,891. In the same year he established a newspaper in the town, The Herald of Health, that ran until 1893. Dr. and Mrs. Hyatt had three children, none of whom married or left issue: Sybil, Delia, and Anderson Lawrence Hyatt.

Sybil Hyatt (1877-1951) was educated locally in Kinsey Female Institute at LaGrange, N.C., and in the Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore (Mistress of Liberal Arts, 1895). Planning a career in education, she attended a six week summer schools for teachers at the University of North Carolina (1896), University of Virginia (1909), and Columbia University (1912). Miss Hyatt taught school, serving frequently as principal, between 1908 and 1912. She then did research work at the newly established Caswell Training School (now the Caswell Center) at Kinston from 1912 to 1914. After a local controversy in 1916 in which Miss Hyatt attempted unsuccessfully to force educational reforms in the Lenoir County school system, she appears to have given up teaching altogether, though not her interest in public education.

Anderson Lawrence Hyatt (1884-1960) was educated in the medical schools of the University of North Carolina (1906-1908) and the University of Maryland (M.D., 1910). After returning to Kinston to practice medicine, young Dr. Hyatt persuaded his father, against the latter's better judgment, to let him try the experiment of farming as a landlord with tenants. The result was not reassuring to the elder doctor, who had no delusions with reference to his son's business acumen. The upshot of the experiment was that the elder Dr. Hyatt revoked the last will and testament he had drawn up in 1913 and wrote a new one in 1922 in which he bequeathed his real and personal property in Kinston to his two daughters and his extensive Dover Swamp lands in Craven and Jones counties to his son, Simultaneously, he conveyed the Craven and Jones lands by deed to his daughter, Delia, in a cestui que trust by which she became trustee for her brother.

Delia Hyatt (1881-1964) was educated in the Kinston High School (1900), the Kinsey Female Institute at LaGrange, and St. Mary's School in Raleigh. Subsequently she briefly taught school; Clayton High School, 1908/09, and Mount Olive Graded School, 1909/10. Her true occupation in life, however, seems to have been management of real property. In 1963, as her life was coming to a close, Miss Hyatt created a charitable corporation styled, The Hyatt Memorial Home for Boys and transferred her property to it. The objective of the corporation, when established, was to create a home for needy white boys, and failing that to create an educational fund to assist needy children to attend schools of advanced learning in the state. The home Miss Hyatt envisioned never materialized. Under a 2001 restatement of the articles of incorporation, all references to the proposed home and educational fund were deleted. The corporation continues in existence.