Ozema Ellie Webb was born on October 5, 1897, in Itawamba County, Mississippi.  She was the oldest child of Moman Webb and Easter Truelove Webb.  Her father died when she was ten years old.  She helped her mother, who never remarried, raise her four younger brothers.  They lived around many of their Webb cousins, in the Clay Community, and it was a man from nearby whom she married.  On March 23, 1915, she married Ira Matison "Mat" Miles.  He was 22 and she was 17.  The photo here must show her and just about that age.  

She and Mat had five children of their own.  Strangely enough, the first was a girl, then the other four were boys (just like herself and her sibilings).  They lived in the Tilden Community, all their lives in Itawamba County.  Mat was a farmer.  They kept their old home place and the youngest of their children still owns it, keeping it and the barn up to appear just as it did when they lived in it.

They lived there until she passed away in 1974, at the age of 78.  Mat lived until 1985, when he passed away at the age of 93.  They are both buried at the Itawamba Memorial Gardens in the Clay Community.

The Itawamba County Times
October 17, 1974; page 1

Mrs. I.M. Miles Services Tuesday
     Mrs. I.M. (Ozema) Miles, 78, died at 9 p.m. Sunday at Itawamba County Hospital.
     She was a resident of Rt. 1, Fulton and a member of the Church of Christ.
     Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at McNeece-Morris Funeral Chapel.  Ministers W.M. Jackson, Jerry Self, and Jerry Buchannan officiated with burial in Itawamba Memorial Gardens.
     Survivors are her husband, Mat Miles; three sons, Grady Miles, Hubert Miles and William Miles, all of Fulton; one daughter, Mrs. Shellie Rankin of Zion, Ill.; three brothers, W.H. Webb, Jim Webb, and Elbie Webb, all of Fulton; 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
     Grandsons served as pallbearers.

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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
December 24, 1985; page 10A

Miles
    FULTON - I.M. "Mat" Miles, 93, died Monday at Itawamba County Hospital.  He was a retired farmer, a resident of the Tilden community and an elder and a member of the Church of Christ at Tilden.
    Services will be at 2 p.m. today at McNeece-Morris Funeral Home Chapel with Lawrence Williams officiating.  Burial will be in Itawamba Memorial Gardens.
    Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Shelly "Ruzene" Rankin of Zion, Ill.; three sons, Grady Miles, Hubert Miles and William Miles, all of Fulton; 13 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

Jessica Ruzene Miles  (md. Shellie L. Rankin)
     Jessica Ruzene and Shellie had three children, but one of them died young.  They moved to Zion, Illinois, like so many Itawamba families, when Shellie returned from the service in World War II.  She passed away at the age of 77 in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, in 1995.

Grady Webb Miles  (md. Gena Mae Williams)
     Grady and Gena Mae had two children.  I know little else about them.

Matison Laudis Miles  (md. Jesker Alene Hood)
     Matison Laudis and Jesker Alene married in 1948 and had two children.  He passed away at the age of 49 in 1971.

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
July 19, 1971; page 10

M.L. Miles Dies Sunday
    Rites At Fulton Church Of Christ

    FULTON - Matison Landis Miles, 46, died at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the Bella Vista Unit of the North Mississippi Medical Center after an illness of four months.
    Owner of the M.L. Miles Grocery and Market east of Fulton, he was an active member of the Fulton Church of Christ where he served as elder and Bible School teacher.  He was active in 4-H Club work, a member of the board of directors of Itawamba County Fair Association and was a veteran of World War II.
    Funeral services are set for 4 p.m. today in the Fulton  Church of Christ with ministers William N. Jackson of Huntington, Tenn. and Larry Carithers officiating.  Burial will be in Itawamba Memorial Gardens with McNeece-Morris Funeral Home in charge.
    Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jesker Alene Hood Miles; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. Miles of Fulton; a daughter, Wanda and one son, Garry Matt, both of the home; three brothers, Grady, Hubert and William, all of Fulton; a sister, Mrs. Ehellie Rankin of Zion, Ill.
    Pallbearers will be Argie Wilson, Buster Davis, Audie Clayton, Charlie Coker, Kelly Johnson, Sam Farrar.  Honorary pallbearers will be elders and deacons in the Fulton Church of Christ. 
    The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to the Fulton Church of Christ.

Moman Hubert Miles  (md. Private)
     Hubert was an insurance agent and lived in Itawamba and Prentiss counties.  He had five children.  He passed away in 2000, at the age of 75.

Hubert Miles Sr.

FULTON -- Hubert Miles Sr., 75, died Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2000, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. He was born March 9, 1925, in Itawamba County to Ira Matison and Ozema Webb Miles. He lived in Itawamba County most of his life until moving to Booneville several years ago to live with his daughter. He was a retired insurance agent and had worked many years for the Mississippi State Extension Service. He attended the First Baptist Church in Booneville, where he was active in the Isaac Sunday School Class. He was a Mason and a veteran of World War II, serving in the 726th Armed Battalion Unit. He enjoyed gardening and reading, and he loved his family and friends.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today at the McNeece-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Fulton with Dr. Lynn Jones officiating. Burial will be in Itawamba Memorial Gardens.

Survivors include three daughters, Becky Kelly and her husband, Clarence, of Booneville, and Mary Kilgore and her husband, Steve, and Maria Raines and her husband, Rocky, all of Fulton; two sons, Hubert Miles Jr. and his wife, Brenda, of Fulton, and Tim Miles and his wife, Sharon, of Dorsey; his children's mother, Cumi Miles of Fulton; two brothers, William "Bill" Miles and his wife, Pat, and Grady Miles and his wife, Gena Mae, all of Fulton; 12 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Ruzene Rankin; and a brother, Laudis Miles.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Isaac Sunday School Class at the First Baptist Church in Booneville and the Hardee's Coffee Drinkers Club.

Visitation will be from 7 a.m. to service time today.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to: First Baptist Church, West Church Street, Booneville, MS 38829; or the American Diabetes Association.

William Miles  (md. Private)
     Bill was born much later than his other siblings.  He is a Mississippi State Representative and is very interested in genealogy as well!