Josephine Phillip Miller (1856-1914)

PHILLIP, MILLER, PARKER

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 12/6/2007 at 23:15:38

Josephine Phillip was born in B___anville, Ontario, Canada, January 25, 1856. At the age of __ years she came with her parents to Traer, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood. December 25, 188_ she was married to Abraham L. Miller and they came soon after to Buchanan county. Iowa, which has been her home since that time. Six children were born to them, two sons and four daughters, one daughter Erma Beryl dying in infancy.

On Tuesday morning, last, she met with an accident in which her clothing caught fire causing serious burns on her body which with the nervous shock resulted in her death on Wednesday morning, September 23, 1914 at the age of 58 years, 7 months and 28 days. She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, two sons Guy and Ralph at home and three daughters, Mrs. Clarence Parker who lives but a short distance from the parental home, Arlie and Donna at home, and two grand children. Her father died when she was sixteen years of age; but ther mother survives her and with her four sisters and one brother besides a large circle of more distant relatives and friends.

Mrs. Miller was a very friendly woman and her happy disposition shed sunshine all around her. A loving wife and mother who gave her strength to her family without stint; yet she was ready to help the neighbors when they needed her and was active in the Methodist church in Aurora, Iowa which she attended teaching in the Sunday school and working in the Ladies Aid Society. She will be greatly missed in the home and social circle and the sympathy of the whole community goes out to the bereaved ones.

The funeral services were held on Friday afternoon, September 25th in the Methodist church in Aurora, Iowa, where a company of friends that filled the church to overflowing and a mass of beautiful flowers bore mute testimony to the esteem in which she was held. The services were conducted by the pastor of the church, Rev. S. C. Bretuall and the body was laid to rest in the Otsego cemetery near Oelwein.

Oelwein Daily Register - 26 September 1914