When Barbara Emeline Lyall was born on 15 June 1882, in Jefferson, Ashe, North Carolina, United States, her father, George Franklin Lyall, was 22 and her mother, Mary Burgess, was 17. She married George Washington Miller on 8 April 1908, in Jefferson, Ashe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Williamsburg, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States in 1930 and Williamsburg Magisterial District, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 8 September 1955, in Ronceverte, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 73.