The Miller family reunion celebrated its 70^th anniversary Sunday as hundreds came from all over to attend the day-long event at Henry Johnson Park in Trainer, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times.

Grandmother Marian Abrams Miller started the tradition back in the 1950s.

“The purpose was really so that my grandmother’s children always got together and as the family grew, we got to know each other,” family historian Joyce Mosley said.

Actually, 80 percent of the family still lives in Delaware County, but some come from great distances, as far as Japan.

Everyone is related to Clement ‘Grandpop” Biddle Miller Sr. and Marian “Mimi” Abrams Miller, a descendant of the Bustill family and Philadelphia’s first mayor, Humphrey Morrey, appointed by William Penn.

Cyrus Bustill was of white, Black, and Native American descent, a slave who bought his freedom and founded the Free African Society.

Famed actor and political activist Paul Robeson is also a cousin in the family.

Family members have gone on to make many contributions to Delaware County, serving in the school systems, as a district magistrate, on the nonprofit board of The Foundation for Delaware County, and in philanthropic efforts to help and build the community.

Read more about the Miller family’s annual reunion in the Daily Times.