Pioneer Mrs. W. F. Miller

Grandma W. F. Miller, aged 75 years, 10 months and 28 days, one of the brave old pioneer women of this city, was buried in the Ft. Calhoun (Nebraska) cemetery near her father, mother, one brother and two sisters, Dec. 4, 1910.

She was married to W. F. Miller in Macomb, Ill., in 1853, moved to Iowa in 1864 and in 1857 came to this city, which has been her continuous home, except, perhaps, two years in California after the death of her husband in 1900.

Mrs. Miller died at the home of her son, Bethuel, near Irvington, where she was taken about two weeks ago. She leaves besides her son, two daughters in California, Mrs. Frazer and Mrs. Charles Vaughan, and a daughter, Mrs. W. Lytle, in Burt county. She was well known as a faithful wife and mother and this writer is indebted to her and her husband for many acts of kindness the first twenty years we lived here.

Rev. Bilkeman officiated in the Presbyterian church, with Dr. Curtis, Mrs. John Landis and Miss Lena Schwaer in the choir and Mrs. Henry Roberts at the organ. Geo. Rohwer, Hans Schwager, William Haas, Mr. Hull, William Steyer and William Frahm kindly acted as pallbearers and marched on foot to the cemetery. The flowers were very rare and beautiful.

The relatives desire to thank all their old neighbors and friends for their kindness and sympathy in their hours of sorrow. W. H. Woods.

Note: From Ft. Calhoun cemetery records: husband was Willard; she died 2 Dec 1910; buried Section F Blk 89 Grave 1

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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