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his life and can remember what happened here 50 years ago, 25 years ago and last week. Anyone with a question on Washington’s history has only to ask and Jack’s off, spinning story after story of the old days. 7 His roots go back for generations. Jack is the grandson of Middleton Miller, builder of The Maples, and great-greatgrandson of the first Miller in Rappahannock County, a German immigrant who changed his name from Heinrich Mueller to Henry Miller.
Annie Powers, the unmarried daughter of James Leake Powers, builder of Trinity Episcopal Church, Ben Venue, Jessamine Hill and the county’s courthouse who learned his trade working under Thomas Jefferson, was young Jack’s first teacher. An intelligent and well educated person, she had memorized most of the McGufly Readers. Miss Powers was also a great story teller who charmed Jack and his sister with her ghost tales.
At 16, he graduated with a class of six from the new high school in Washington.
His boyhood was spent long before the advent of radio and television. Instead of hours squandered before a TV set. Jack remembers days spent in more active pasttimes—playing baseball, riding horses, buggy riding and sleigh riding in the winter. “I even got part-way up Devils Staircase one time but only one time and only part-way. I was never much of a walker,” he recalled.
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