Ruth Miller

  Ruth Miller is a Charleston historian.  She Became interested  in Charleston grave yards when she was giving a tour to mortician around Charleston and they wanted to stop at a grave yard.  One of her books another one of her books is Book two.  She taught  me many things about Charleston that I did not know.  Like for example when people where getting grave stones and things made out of stone they had to order it from a stone carver from up north such as New England because they did not have any stone down here.  Also king Charles gave the Carolinas to Sir Ashley Cooper that is why the rivers that run together in Charleston one is called the Ashley river and the Cooper bridge.  There are also 2 grave yards that date back to as late as the 1600s in Charleston.  She said "the main two exports in Charleston where rice and indigo."  Also "the main import where slaves."   Ruth went to duke University. She has been all around the world and enjoys going to historic cities in America.  She has been a Charleston guide since 1979.  She knows a lot about history of Charleston churches and 18th century grave yards.  One of her quotes is "By 1710 there we had more africans than Americans." If you think about that it is crazy that the people over here just went over across the world to get people to do there labor for them and before you know it there are more of them over here.  She also mentioned the origins of the churches.  The methodist are from England the congressional are from England and they have a meeting house.  Presbyterian are from England as well. The catholic church is from Spain. And the Episcopal church is from American.