OBITUARY: J.P. Miller, 1825-1894, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]


                       Death of J. P. Miller

J. P. Miller, who became immortal Saturday morning, Oct. 6, 1894, after
a short final illness, had been a prominent citizen of Mitchell for
twenty-seven years.

He was born in Springfield, Vt., March 8, 1825; journeyed westward to
Wisconsin when twenty-one years of age, and in about one year thereafter
married Martha C. Wells, of Jefferson, Wis., who died in 1849.  The
following Spring he went to California and remained three years amid
the wild scenes of the mining districts.  Returning to Wisconsin in
1853, he married Mrs. Altha W. Cole of Cooksville, and finally moved
to Mitchell, Iowa.

Two daughters were born in Cooksville.  One died in infancy; the other
married E. D. Williams, and now lives in Duluth.  She was present with
her mother at the bedside when her father passed away.

The deceased was a leading member of the Congregational church in this
place, with which he became identified in 1877.  The funeral services
were observed at the residence Monday morning at ten o'clock, and the
remains laid to rest in Oak Grove cemetery, Rev. E. P. Crane officiating.
Thus another of our respected townsmen has dropped from among us in
accordance with the great immutable law - Temperance Power.



Copyright (c) 2002 by Marilyn O'Connor

(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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