Ancestors of Robert G. Millar, White Separatist KKK Leader
Generation No. 1
1.RobertG.Millar, White Separatist KKK Leader, born August 16, 1925 in WHITEWATER, MANITOBA, CANADA; died May 28, 2001 in ST. EDWARDS MERCY MEDICAL CENTER, FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES. He was the son of 2. DonaldS.Millar and 3. LullaCatherineMacLeod. He married (1) ElsieMillar. She died April 28, 1999.
Notes for Robert G. Millar, White Separatist KKK Leader:
ELOHIM CITY, ADAIR COUNTY, OKLAHOMA
Elohim City is an identity settlement in Oklahoma, near the Oklahoma--Arkansas border, founded in November 1973 by Robert G. Millar. The community came to public attention after the Oklahoma City bombing April 19, 1995 when is was disclosed that Timothy McVeigh, the convicted bomber, had called the compound seeking to visit. (There is no evidence that McVeigh ever traveled to Elohim City.) Millar had friendly relations with several violent racial extremists, some of whom have stayed at Elohim City, until his death in May 2001. His son John, long active in the community, was expected to assume leadership.
Weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing, the Rev. Robert Millar, founder of Elohim City, sought out a meeting with FBI officials in MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, home of James Howard Edmondson, Governor of Oklahoma. He warned them, "Something very bad is about to happen to the federal government, and white supremacists may get the blame for it." No other details of the meeting are available, but it raises tantalizing new questions about foreknowledge of the pending bombing attack.
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Elohim City
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Elohim City
Founded in the mid-1980s by Robert G. Millar, a U.S. resident alien from Canada
with ties to The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), Identity
encampment Elohim City is located on the rugged and mountainous
Oklahoma-Arkansas border. The Toronto Star described the encampment as a place
of white supremacy and anti-Semitism that is "among a growing number of
gun-toting, right-wing religious camps across the U.S." The Canadian paper said
that Elohim City has been identified as a "neo-Nazi type" camp by U.S. Justice
Department officials and as a "hate group" by the Oklahoma Human Rights
Commission.
Elohim City "elder" Zera Horton Patterson III said in a May 13, 1985 Arkansas
Gazette article that "community members did not think of themselves as 'white
supremacists,' but as a 'chosen people' charged by God with the responsibility
of serving and leading others." Patterson continued "Jesus said, 'He who is the
greatest among you, let him be their servant.' Jesus was the servant of all men
and in that sense He was the Supreme One, the supremacist because He was the
servant. So that's the way we are supremacists in that sense."
Elohim City founder Robert Millar has been connected to leaders of other
Identity-type movements. He tried to raise money for CSA leader Jim Ellison's
bond following Ellison's 1985 arrest for illegal weapons possession. He also
served as a character witness on behalf of Richard Wayne Snell, a CSA member who
was serving a life sentence in Arkansas for the 1984 murder of an Arkansas state
trooper. Snell was executed by the State of Arkansas on April 19, 1995 - the
same day as the Oklahoma City bombing - for the earlier murder of a pawn shop
owner in 1983. According to New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly (April
23, 1995), "The Rev. Robert Millar arranged for Snell's body to be shipped to
Elohim City [for burial]."
The February 24, 1987 Arkansas Gazette noted that a Federal grand jury in Fr.
Smith, Arkansas was investigating members of the CSA, The Order, the Posse
Comitatus and the KKK, and reported that "Rev. Robert Millar of Elohim City,
Oklahoma has said that he was brought to Ft. Smith for questioning. He said that
he was asked about an alleged plot to kill Federal Judge H. Franklin Waters of
Fayetteville, former U.S. Attorney Asa Hutchinson of Ft. Smith and FBI special
agent Jack Knox of Fayetteville, all of whom took part in the 1985 prosecution
of CSA leaders."
In August 1993, The Balance, a publication of CAUSE Foundation - a legal defense
group whose head, attorney Kirk Lyons, has described himself as an "active
sympathizer" of his far-right clients' causes - made reference to Elohim City.
It said that on July 9, 1993, members of the Adair County Sheriff's Office in
Muldrow, Oklahoma visited Elohim City, describing it as "an Identity religious
community led by the Rev. Robert G. Millar." It said that they "were there to
warn Pastor Millar of a possible BATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms]
raid on their church and homes."
Stating that the law officers were looking for a suspect wanted for alleged
possession of an unregistered machine gun who was "known to be around Elohim
City," the publication declared: "We believe that this information distributed
to the law enforcement agencies is a prelude to a Branch Davidian-type raid.
There are many parallels between the Branch Davidians and Elohim City. Both are
known to be opposed to the government, are a religious separatist community, and
have legal weapons to defend themselves." It added: "As a preemptory [sic]
measure, Rev. Millar has signed a power of attorney to empower CAUSE Foundation
to represent him and his parishioners should a confrontation with government
develop."
More About Robert G. Millar, White Separatist KKK Leader:
Burial: ELOHIM CITY, ADAIR COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES
Residence: 1950, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES
Ties/Associations: ELOHIM CITY had ties to The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of the Lord, a paramilitary survivalists group that operated indentity near the Arkansas-Missouri border. Rev Robert G. Millar had an association with MARK THOMAS, former PA leader of Aryan Nation
More About Elsie Millar:
Burial: ELOHIM CITY, ADAIR COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES
