MILLER, Mary 1843-1925

MILLER

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Date: 3/23/2015 at 20:58:34

Old Melrose Resident Dead

Mrs. William Miller Passed Away at Her Home Tuesday

Mrs. William Miller died at her home in Melrose township at noon on Tuesday. She had been an invalid the greater part of the time during the past eighteen years.

Mrs. Miller was one of the earliest residents of Melrose township and she made her home there continually. Her husband died about eight years ago.

Funeral services will be held at the Ivester church next Saturday. Interments will be made in the Ivester cemetery. An obituary of Mrs. Miller will be published in the next issue of The Register.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 5 November 1925, pg 1

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Mrs. Mary Miller

Mary Sheller Miller died at her home near Ivester, Grundy County, November 3, 1925, at the age of 82 years, 4 months and 15 days. She was born near Mt. Carroll, Ill., June 18, 1843 and there grew to womanhood.

In 1863 she was married to Wm. F. Miller who preceded her in death about 8 years ago. With her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sheller and their family, they came west to Grundy County in the spring of 1866 and took up homes on the raw prairie where she resided until her death.

She was the mother of seven children, six daughters and one son. Clara and Ida the two oldest passed away in their childhood. Those remaining are: Mrs. Lillie Draper, Mrs. Cynthia Albright, Mrs. Byrl Meyers, Mrs. Frances Button and the son , D. Orren Miller, all of Grundy County. She also leaves 13 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, her sister, Mrs. Geo. Moore of this city and her brother Henry Sheller of California.

Mrs. Miller united with the Church of the Brethren in 1865 and was a loyal and active member in the church and was a teacher of a Sunday School class; when about 18 years ago she became afflicted so that she had to leave her work for others to do. She was a charter member of the church at Ivester and is the last but two to pass to her eternal reward.

Funeral services were held at the Ivester church Saturday morning and were conducted by Rev. I. D. Leatherman, pastor at that place and burial was made in the Sheller cemetery, two miles north.

There is no death! the stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore,
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown,
They shine forever more.

Card of Thanks
We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for the sympathy and kind offers of help during the years of her affliction and after the death of our dear mother; also for the bountiful floral offerings.
--The Miller Family

--Hardin County Ledger (Eldora, Iowa), 12 November 1925, pg 5