[1] By the early 1920s she was working in New York City, where she appeared in Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's musical comedy Shuffle Along.
[1] The blues writer Steve Tracy described Miles as having "a light but forceful delivery that was not low-down but was nevertheless convincing.
After the early 1930s, she devoted herself to church activities in Kansas City, Missouri, where she had settled.
[1] In 1928, a preacher billed sometimes as Missionary Josephine Miles and sometimes as Evangelist Mary Flowers recorded six sides of fiery sermons for the Gennett label.
[3] The blues historians Paul Oliver[4] and Chris Smith[5] believe that the aural evidence does not support this identification.