Just off the side of the road sat a grand
white house called Sharswood. Silently holding secrets from the past, waiting
for a new owner to uncover them. Sounds like the opening line of a southern
gothic novel, but this story is about a real family, and a real house, this country’s
history, and a man who found himself at the center of far more than he had bargained for. The man is Fred Miller, a 56-year-old Air
Force veteran who was looking to buy property in his Virginia hometown for his large extended
family’s frequent get-togethers. He had never heard the name Sharswood, and
yet this old house would lead him on a journey of discovery, with surprises and revelations
that seem both impossible and inevitable all at once. These are the gentle hills of Pittsylvania
County, Virginia -- quiet, rural farm country near the North Carolina border that once produced
more tobacco than any county in the state. Fred Miller: Hey, we’re gonna gather up
in this room here mainly.. Fred Miller grew up here in a close family
that likes getting together regularly for birthdays, fish fry’s, and as his cousin
Adam Miller told us, just about anything. Adam Miller: We play games, and we do, like,
(LAUGH) a lotta food competitions. Lesley Stahl: I hear the food is mainly cake. Adam Miller: Yeah. (LAUGHTER) Too many cakes-- Fred Miller: Too many cakes. Fred’s cousin, Tonya Miller Pope, and his
sister, Debra Coles, told us it’s a big family. Fred’s mother, Betty, and his aunt, Brenda,
were two of 11. Lesley Stahl: How many cousins? Brenda: Oh my God-- (OVERTALK) Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Hundreds Fred Miller: It's hundreds-- Brenda: At least 100. Lesley Stahl: So no wonder Fred needed to
find-- Fred Miller: -- a huge place. Brenda: Exactly. Fred lives in California, where he works as
a civil engineer for the Air Force, but he visits the family in Virginia often. Fred Miller: One day, out of the blue, my
sister called me and told me about a big house up the road for sale. Lesley Stahl: This sister right here? Fred Miller: Yeah. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Yeah. Karen Dixon-Rexroth, Fred’s baby sister,
had spotted it. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Me and my mom was ridin'
past the house and I saw the for sale sign. I said, "Oh, my goodness. We have to get this house." I call Fred. "Fred, this house is for sale." He's like, "What house?" I said, "You know the house. The-- the scary house," I call it. (LAUGH) The “scary house” was less than a mile
up the road from their mom’s. They’d passed it every day as kids on their
way to school. Lesley Stahl: What did you know about Sharswood? Betty Dixon: Absolutely nothin'-- Tonya Miller Pope: --nothing. Debra Coles: Nothing. Brenda: No. Adam Miller: Just knew it was-- saw the house-- Tonya Miller Pope: A big house. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: He was debating, "Should
we put in a bid for it?" I said, "Yes. Absolutely. Let's do it." Lesley Stahl: Did she twist your arm? Fred Miller: It took all the twisting she
could do. 'Cause I-- I d-- I didn't want to buy it-- But thinking his bid would be rejected anyway,
he made an offer of just above the $220,000 asking price. Lesley Stahl: Why did you think they weren't
going to accept the offer? Fred Miller: Well, I mean, I'm-- initially,
me, I thought that because I was Black that they would never-- surely, they would never
sell this house to someone that's Black. So for us to be able to own this thing, I
thought it would never happen. Yeah. In a million years. Lesley Stahl: So guess what happened? A million years. Fred Miller: A million years happened. (LAUGH) Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Yes. (LAUGH) Yes. Absolutely. So in May of 2020, Fred Miller purchased the
fully-furnished house plus 10 and a half acres of land from a family called the Thompsons,
who had owned it since 1917. Fred Miller: The first time I drove up to
the place-- all I could do is stop by the edge of the road there and just look up in--
in amazement. Like, wow, this is-- this is mine. [SMILE] Karen Dixon-Rexroth: This is an original room
from the 1800’s. Karen says she got obsessed with the house,
spending nights and weekends online researching its secrets. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Hiding spot they say
was from the Civil War, so they would hide the valuables-- Lesley Stahl: Secret hideaway. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Yeah, a secret hiding
spot. She discovered the house had been built around
1850, in the gothic revival style, by a well-known New York architect. And she learned and told her family that its
name had been Sharswood. Fred Miller: Every day she was calling me
with new information. I'm like, "My goodness, okay, relax." (LAUGHTER) Lesley Stahl: Are you exaggerating? Every day? Fred Miller: No, I’m not exaggerating at
all. (LAUGHTER) But then Karen turned up something that stunned
her, in the 1800s, Sharswood had been the seat of a major, 1,300 acre plantation. One of the larger ones in the county. Lesley Stahl: What did you think of you owning
a plantation? Fred Miller: I was a little bit-- a little
shocked by that, I would say. Because I just wanted somewhere to have family
gatherings. Tonya Miller Pope: When I found out that it
was a plantation, and then I'm like, okay, Fred just bought a plantation-- Tonya Miller Pope: I was like, we own-- We
own a plantation-- Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Yeah, what we gonna do
up here? Tonya Miller Pope: It was just-- a feeling
(LAUGH) of just-- power. It was just a powerful feeling. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: It is. Powerful, but of course, plantation implies
slavery, and before the Civil War, Pittsylvania County held more than 14,000 enslaved people. The state of Virginia just under 500,000. Dexter Miller: I said, "Do you realize what
this is?" They didn't have a clue. Dexter Miller, one of Fred and Karen’s many
second cousins, knew something about Sharswood because years ago, he’d been coworkers with
Bill Thompson, whose family then owned it. Bill joined us for a conversation on what
used to be his childhood porch. Lesley Stahl: You grew up in this house. Bill Thompson: I did. This was my home. He inherited much of the farmland and still
lives up the road. His sister inherited the house and sold it
to Fred. Lesley Stahl: You know, when Fred was buying
the house, he did not think that the house would be sold to a Black person. Bill Thompson: Why would you think that, Fred? Fred Miller: Well, because, you know, it's--
m-- I mean, we're in rural Virginia. Right? Bill Thompson: Well, this is true. (ALL LAUGH) For years, Dexter and another second cousin,
Sonya Womack-Miranda, had been trying to piece together the Miller family’s origins -- a
notoriously difficult task for African-Americans because records are hard to come by, especially
before 1865. Sonya Womack-Miranda: It really was a hobby. Dexter Miller: It was addictive. It was addictive, it really was. Lesley Stahl: You were like private eyes. Sonya Womack-Miranda: Yeah. Dexter Miller: Yes. They had been able to trace the whole Miller
clan back to one woman. Sonya Womack-Miranda: It's Dexter's great-grandmother;
it’s my great-great-grandmother, Sarah. Lesley Stahl: Sarah Miller? Dexter Miller: Uh-huh. Sonya Womack-Miranda: Yes. They had found a picture of Sarah Miller. Dexter pointing to photo: This is Sarah right
here. And they’d gotten hold of her death certificate,
which showed that she’d been born in Pittsylvania County in 1868, just three years after the
end of the Civil War. And they found an even better resource. One of their oldest living relatives, a beloved
former school teacher named Marian Keyes. Ms. Keyes, as everyone here calls her, is
about to turn 90. Lesley Stahl: Sarah Miller is the matriarch
of the family. Marian Keyes: Yes, she-- yes, she was. Lesley Stahl: Did you know her? Marian Keyes: Yes, I did. Lesley Stahl: Well, tell us about her. Marian Keyes: She would always be out there
with a broom in her hand, and she would be waiting for us. Marian Keyes remembers her great-grandmother,
Sarah, as a force to be reckoned with. Marian Keyes: What she wanted you to know,
you were going to know it. Lesley Stahl: Was she persnickety, as they
say-- Marian Keyes: Yes, yes, yes-- Lesley Stahl: --was she difficult? Stern? Marian Keyes: Very. Very. She didn’t-- she didn't play. She didn't play. But we loved her. But that’s where Ms. Keyes’ knowledge
of Miller family history ended. She didn’t know anything about the generations
before emancipation. Lesley Stahl: When you were growing up, what
did you learn or hear from your parents about slavery? Marian Keyes: Nothing. Lesley Stahl: Nothing? Marian Keyes: Nothing. They did not talk about it. I don't know whether they were afraid, whether
it was too miserable or painful, or they wanted to forget it, I don't know. But they did not talk to us about it at all. And we didn't ask them questions about it. Lesley Stahl: Why not? Marian Keyes: We were afraid to. (LAUGH) We heard that again and again from members
of the Miller family. Dexter Miller: Slavery wasn't mentioned at
all. Lesley Stahl: Was there almost a code? We don't talk about slavery so nobody did? Dexter Miller: It was something-- that every
Black person knew you didn't talk about. Your parents was to tell you not to discuss
grown people business. That's what they'll tell you. Fred Miller: The first time slavery was discussed
was-- I guess in the '70s when “Roots” came. The movie “Roots” came about. Lesley Stahl: That's the first time? Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Uh-huh. Lesley Stahl: When “Roots” was on television? Did you read about it in school? Fred Miller: N-- not much. His family also remembers “Roots” as pivotal. Debra Coles: Yes. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Mm-hm. Brenda: I think that's-- that's where we all-- Karen Dixon-Rexroth: That's where we all-- Brenda: I think all of us felt like that-- Tonya Miller Pope: That was an eye-opener. Lesley Stahl: But even after “Roots,”
you didn't go and say, "What about our family?" Karen Dixon-Rexroth: No. [ALL SHAKE HEADS NO] Lesley Stahl: Even then-- Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Not at all. Lesley Stahl: What held you back? Fred Miller: I just didn't think they wanted
to talk about it. Lesley Stahl: But didn't you wanna know? Fred Miller: I would love to have known. I would love to have known. Fred’s purchase of Sharswood was about to
give him a crash course in his hometown’s slavery roots. It started with a call from two archeologists
who wanted to come do research. Dennis Pogue: We're historic preservationists. And so, you know, we start from the idea that
these places matter. Dennis Pogue once worked at Mt. Vernon; Doug Sanford at Monticello. They asked if they could come explore Sharswood,
but they weren’t interested in the ornate house designed by that famous architect. What they cared about was the dilapidated
building with the tin roof past the big oak tree behind it. They suspected it had once been slave quarters. Doug Sanford: There were once hundreds of
thousands of these buildings. These were one of the most common types of
architecture in Virginia. But now these buildings are rare, with fewer
than 1,500 believed to be still standing. And Pogue and Sanford started a project to
search for them. Fred and Karen invited them to come investigate. They examined, measured, and searched for
clues. They showed us some of what they found. Dennis Pogue: These are the kind of nails
that we expect to see on buildings before 1800. Hand-made, wrought nails. Lesley Stahl: Hand-made? Dennis Pogue: You can actually see the hammer
strokes on the head. Lesley Stahl: Is this the original siding? Dennis Pogue: These are remnants of the original
siding. Absolutely. They worked from noon to dusk and finally
gave Karen and Fred their conclusion. Dennis Pogue: It's got a complex history,
but we think part of that history, a big part of that history, was it was a-- a quarter
for enslaved folks. They say it’s one of the best preserved
they’ve seen. They believe it was originally built in the
late 1700s as a house for a White family.. Doug Sanford: That's where the original door
was. And was later divided into two separate, single-room
slave dwellings. Lesley Stahl: Two families? Doug Sanford: Yeah. One household here. Another enslaved household over there. Fred Miller: It just showed that it was two
different worlds: this front, big, beautiful world here, and lavish; and you go right behind
the house and there was a whole different story. It's kinda crazy for me just to even walk
around out there. Lesley Stahl: Do you own that? Do you own the slave house, too? Fred Miller: I own the slave house, I do. That's mine. [SMILE] Lesley Stahl: Wow. Fred Miller: Yeah. [LAUGHS, SMILES] When Fred Miller unwittingly purchased what
he now knows to be the Sharswood Plantation House -- with slave quarters just behind it
-- he knew virtually nothing about his own family history. He’d always assumed his ancestors had been
enslaved, but it felt to him like an unknowable part of a distant past. Learning about his great grandmother Sarah
Miller, whom his mother had known as a child, piqued his interest. So when he found out her house was still standing,
just a few miles away from Sharswood, he asked his mother Betty Dixon to go there with him. Fred Miller: Alright, we’re gonna walk down
through here. Betty’s grandmother Sarah had been the first
of their ancestors to be born into freedom shortly after the Civil War. Betty walking toward house: Last time I saw
this cabin, it had no lights. No electricity. Betty remembers visiting and spending the
night here with her grandmother and cousins. Fred and Betty approaching window: Whoa. What is it, one room? Sarah’s house didn’t look much bigger
than the slave dwelling. Just a single room with a smaller one above
it. And no indoor plumbing. Fred Miller: Come a long ways, huh? Betty Dixon: Sure did. Fred Miller: Glad I didn’t have to live
in here. Betty Dixon: Well, had to make it work. Fred Miller: You want a piece of this wallpaper
to take with you? Betty Dixon: Yeah. Fred Miller: (rips dangling piece off) Hope
the landlord don’t say nothing. Betty Dixon: Oh lord. There you go. Sarah Miller is buried in the cemetery of
the church the Miller family still attends. Fred at grave: I’m glad now I can actually
come here and see. But unbeknownst to this Miller family, just
five miles up the road in a different church cemetery, was a tombstone that also read “Miller”
-- a far older one, with names Fred and his family had never heard of, but were about
to. In Karen’s search for information about
Sharswood, she found a document that mentioned them. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: It gave the names of
the original owners, who was Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller, and also Charles Edwin Miller. Lesley Stahl: Miller?! Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Yes. Miller. Lesley Stahl: Any lightbulbs? (LAUGH) Any wires connect? Karen Dixon-Rexroth: No, not at that point. Fred Miller: For me, it didn't. At that time it still didn't. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Not at that point, it
did not. Others had suspected a connection between
the two sets of Millers. Bill Thompson: Because I was telling Dexter
back in '88… Bill Thompson says he had mentioned the thought
to Dexter 30 years ago. Bill Thompson: What we had been taught in
high school was that when they freed the slaves, they just took the last name of the person
that was there, which was Miller. I just had told Dexter, "Dexter, it's a good
chance that your ancestors came off of this farm." Dexter Miller: He did. He said that. Lesley Stahl: So you knew that this was a
plantation? Dexter Miller: I did. Lesley Stahl: Well, Fred, you said you didn't
know. Fred Miller: I had no idea. Lesley Stahl: Dexter, you didn't tell Fred. Dexter Miller: I did not tell Fred. I did not tell anyone. Dexter says he’d kept it to himself, because
he hadn’t found any way to prove it. And that’s where this becomes a detective
story, with the Miller cousins now on a mission to figure out whether it could be possible
that their own ancestors might have been enslaved on the very property Fred now owned. The first step was figuring out who their
last enslaved ancestors were. And Sarah Miller’s death certificate held
the answer -- the names of her parents, David and Violet Miller, who would have been adults
at the time of emancipation. Lesley Stahl: Did you know anything about
them? Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Not at all. Not at all. Marian Keyes: I didn't know anything about
them. We didn't-- Even Marian Keyes, who knew Sarah Miller,
had never heard their names. Marian Keyes: Nothing. Lesley Stahl: Wow. Marian Keyes: Sure didn't. Karice Luck-Brimmer: I just-- I-- I want everybody
to know. Enter Karice Luck-Brimmer, a local historian
and genealogist. Karen reached out to her to see if she could
help. Lesley Stahl: What are the special challenges
looking for the ancestors of African Americans? Karice Luck-Brimmer: African Americans were
not listed by name until the 1870 Census. So before that, they were just a number. Lesley Stahl: You mean, if they were enslaved,
they-- Karice Luck-Brimmer: Yes. Lesley Stahl: --weren't listed? Karice Luck-Brimmer: At all. So really, you're just looking for any type
of tips and clues that you can. She started by looking at 1860 records for
Sharswood’s then owner, N.C. For Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller. Karice Luck-Brimmer: There he is. Lesley Stahl: (pointing) N.C. Miller right there, okay. Karice Luck-Brimmer: Yeah. He had 58 slaves here. But with only age and gender listed. Lesley Stahl: You have enslaved people (pointing
at ages) 69, 44, 34. And not a single name. Karice Luck-Brimmer: No names. There was no way of knowing whether Violet
and David were among them, so Karice looked up David and Violet Miller in the 1870 census,
the first one after the Civil War, where they finally appeared by name. It showed they were farmhands, that they couldn’t
read or write, and it listed their children, including, as Karice showed us, a very young
Sarah Miller. Lesley Stahl: There's Sarah. She's one year old. Karice Luck-Brimmer: One years old. Lesley Stahl: And this looks like Emily. Karice Luck-Brimmer: Yes. Lesley Stahl: She's three. And here's Samuel. Karice Luck-Brimmer: Yeah. Lesley Stahl: He's five. To Karice, that meant Samuel, Sarah’s older
brother, was born before emancipation. So Karice searched for him in another historical
record called the Virginia Slave Birth Index. Where slave owners had to list births on their
property. And there, under N.C. Miller’s name, was Samuel. Karice Luck-Brimmer: N.C. Lesley Stahl: Right. Karice Luck-Brimmer: And there’s Samuel. Lesley Stahl: Oh. Karice Luck-Brimmer: And look at that. Lesley Stahl: Oh my word. Karice Luck-Brimmer: It lists Violet as his
mother. It was the genealogy equivalent of a smoking
gun. Lesley Stahl: So this is proof that Violet,
Sarah's mother, was enslaved by-- Karice Luck-Brimmer: Yes. Lesley Stahl: --N.C. Miller Karice Luck-Brimmer: Yes. Lesley Stahl: And this is absolute proof? Karice Luck-Brimmer: This is absolute, definite
proof. Lesley Stahl: And you were able to tell Karen-- Karice Luck-Brimmer: That her ancestors, David
and Violet, were enslaved at Sharswood. [NODS] Karen Dixon-Rexroth: [NODDING] That was tough. Lesley Stahl: So did you call Fred? Karen Dixon-Rexroth: I did. I don't think he believed me in the beginning. Fred Miller: I didn't believe her. (CHUCKLE) Lesley Stahl: So the connection suddenly is
made with your family, slavery, and this house. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: And this house. Fred Miller: This house. Lesley Stahl: And you own it. Fred Miller: Once I realized that it was actually
my blood that was here, it took on a whole new meaning for me. It really saddens me sometimes when I-- you
know? And I'm up-- a lotta times, I'm up wee hours
of the night now, just thinking about what happened here. As news spread through the family, there was
sadness, but that’s not all there was. Tonya Miller Pope: I almost felt like I was
losin' my breath for a moment. It was almost like a feeling of being found. VOICES: Yes, Uh-huh. Tonya Miller Pope: This is where I started. And as Black people, we don't always know
where we started. Lesley Stahl: So here we are, sitting in this
house. Marian Keyes: I can't believe it. I can't believe it. That I’m-- in the plantation house (LAUGH)
of the plantation that my family was enslaved. Lesley Stahl: You're laughing as if this cannot
be true. Marian Keyes: Cannot be, that's right. But it is. Sonya Womack-Miranda: I felt-- I feel complete. Lesley Stahl: Wow. Sonya Womack-Miranda: I'm not half of a human
being anymore. They make me whole, even if I don't know them. I felt a connection to them at Sharswood. Dexter Miller: I touched the tree, I hugged
the tree, and I said, "Oh, my God, you was here when my ancestor was here.” I wonder which ancestor of mine has touched
the tree. I didn't know what to say or do, I just hugged
the tree. And felt like, "I'm home." He shared the news with Bill Thompson, who
had had that hunch all those years ago. Bill Thompson: I look at it that I've been
a servant to this farm and this house my whole life. And for the Miller family to come back home
to my home-- our home-- Fred Miller: Our home. Absolutely. Bill Thompson: --it's great. It's a celebration of-- of comin' home. Lesley Stahl: You've never heard anything
like this? Dennis Pogue: No. Doug Sanford: Yeah. So a number of plantation properties like
Mount Vernon and Monticello have established relations with descendants of the enslaved
there. But to actually see those descendants come
to own that plantation property, wow. Debra Coles: This is God. Adam Miller: Um-hm. Debra Coles: This is-- this is where we're
supposed to be. Brenda: It's like a full circle, like it was
meant to happen-- Fred Miller: It's God's work. Brenda: To me it’s like it was meant to
happen. The Millers also see the hand of their ancestors
in all of this. Fred Miller: I think they had to be because
I did everything-- I did everything in my power to (LAUGH) make this fail. Brenda: To not make it happen. Yeah. Fred Miller: I tried to mess it up at (LAUGH)
every angle. [LAUGH, SMILES] But those ancestors had one more surprise
in store. With all the revelations, there was one question
that continued to gnaw at Dexter. Where were his enslaved ancestors buried? So, just weeks ago, he asked Bill. Dexter Miller: I said, "Bill, there's one
question that's been bothering me: Where is the slave cemetery?" He said, "Dexter-- it's right over there." I said, "Right over where?" He said, "You see those trees over there?” Lesley Stahl: So did you just go right up
there then? Dexter Miller: We went right up there. The trees Bill Thompson pointed to, just beyond
Fred’s property, sure didn’t look like a cemetery. That is, until you start to look closely. Lesley Stahl: Is that one of them-- Fred Miller: That's one of 'em right there. Lesley Stahl: Oh, my gosh-- Fred Miller: And that's-- and that's one. As you can see this is the-- indention right
there-- the headstone there. Maybe this is a footstone on the other end. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Yes. Lesley Stahl: (GASP) Fred Miller: It always-- Lesley Stahl: Oh, my-- Fred Miller: --seemed like to be-- Lesley Stahl: Oh, yeah-- Fred Miller: There's one, yeah, absolutely. Poking up through the leaves all around us
were pointed rocks -- some small, some medium-sized. No names, no engraving. Just plain, anonymous markers of many, many
lives. Lesley Stahl: Wow. This is astonishing. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: It is-- Lesley Stahl: It's kind of overwhelming, isn't
it? Fred Miller: It is-- Karen Dixon-Rexroth: It is. It really is. I mean, we all live in the same area, we come
past this place, and we would not know that our ancestors were right there beside us the
entire time. Lesley Stahl: Fred, if you hadn't bought that
house-- Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Right. You're right. Fred Miller: If I hadn't-- Lesley Stahl: It would-- Fred Miller: --bought that house we'd never
know. Lesley Stahl: Never-- Karen Dixon-Rexroth: Never. Lesley Stahl: So how has all of this affected
you? Fred Miller: It's uh-- it’s changed me,
it's definitely changed me. Lesley Stahl: You ever angry? Fred Miller: I get a little-- little bit upset
sometimes-- when I find out things that I should have known already. Lesley Stahl: Angry at yourself? Fred Miller: At myself and at the system,
because I think that we should have known more. Lesley Stahl: What about the school system? Fred Miller: Should have known more. Lesley Stahl: Family? Fred Miller: Should have known more, absolutely. Lesley Stahl: You want the story of slavery
told. Fred Miller: I want the story of slavery told. It's important. Fred Miller: So this was converted from a
door to a window? Dennis Pogue: Yeah, yeah-- Fred wants to do whatever’s necessary to
preserve the slave house. Dennis Pogue: You know, this has been exposed
for, you know, 200 years. Fred Miller: Yeah, right. He’s in the process of setting up a non-profit
to make that possible. Fred Miller: That's important to me too 'cause
I know a whole lotta emphasis is on-- on that big, white house there. Doug Sanford: Well, exactly. Fred Miller: But this right here is really
(LAUGH) near and dear-- Doug Sanford: Well, this is the story-- Fred Miller: --to me, right. Yeah, this is the story-- Doug Sanford: This is-- Fred Miller: --right here. Doug Sanford: This is your family's story-- Fred Miller: Yeah, absolutely. Fred at cemetery: One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight. There’s eight right here. And he’s been thinking about the cemetery
too. Fred at cemetery: [BENDS DOWN AND RUBS SMALL
STONE] I can imagine this being someone young. Karen Dixon-Rexroth: We have to do something
about this. Fred Miller: Yeah, have to. And I will. I’m gonna fix it. [HOLDING ONTO TREE] Lesley Stahl: Do you think you might allow
historians to come and– Fred Miller: Absolutely. Absol-- this place will be open to anyone
who wants to learn. Lesley Stahl: Anyone? Fred Miller: Anyone can come here. But for now, Sharswood is serving the purpose
Fred bought it for in the first place. Gathering the Miller family together in celebration. Lesley Stahl: What do you think Violet and
David would think if they could see that you own this place? Fred Miller: Yeah, I’m hoping-- I'm hoping
they would be proud of us, and I think they would be. They endured a lot. I mean, I can't even imagine what they went
through. Looking down on us now, they must be smiling
at us.
