Following is an excerpt from the Summers County History Book (page 511).
While John and Alex MILLER were engaged in the mercantile business in
Lick Creek, many years before the war, a Frenchman by the name of William
DeQuasie and his wife came into that creek, carrying all their belongings
in a bundle on their backs. They had no money, credit or property, and
could scarecely make themselves understood in the English language. They
procured a piece of land and applied to the MILLER's for a peck of seed
corn, which they refused. They were industrious, thrifty, saving people,
and before the death of the said MILLER's they had borrowed many dollars
from these thrifty foreigners. They saved money and invested it in the
rough mountain land, of which they acquired several hundred acres on the
Hump Mountain, lived to an old age, and at their deaths left large landed
interests, as well as money and lands to their children. Their descedants
are numerous. Vardeman, Lorenzo and Harrison were their sons. Squire
William DEQUASIE, of Fayette County, is a grandson. William ANDERSON
MILLER, a son of Brice MILLER, of Keeney's knob, married a daughter,
Mary, and the wife of C.W. MIZE of Lick Creek and of Marian Mize of
New River, who emigrated from Patrick County several years ago, are
daughters of W.A. MILLER and Mary MILLER, nee DEQUASIE. Cornelius
STICKLER, of the Hump Mountain, married another daughter, Andrew J.
STICKLER, being their son and a grandson of the DEQUASIE's. These
old pioneers could not read or write in English, but when William
died he had made a last will, devising his property to his wife,
and at her death she made a will likewise providing for their children,
and especially for a daughter and son, Harrison and Betty, who were
non compos mentis
