Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Riley, Susan Miller 1832 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

MRS. SUSAN RILEY. A prominent place is occupied among the residents of Tuscola
County by the lady whose name introduces these paragraphs. She is the widow of
the late J. F. Riley and resides on a fine farm on section 20, Juniata Township.
Here she owns forty acres of fine land, well improved with good buildings, and
brought to a high state of cultivation by a proper rotation of crops and
fertilization of the soil. Mrs. Riley is the daughter of Stephen J. and Nancy
(Weed) Miller, natives of New York State and Connecticut respectively. At an
early day they settled in Orange County, N. J., where our subject was born, but
later they removed to Fairfield County, Conn. There they made their home until
1859, when they came to Michigan and settled in Tuscola County.

  On June 12, 1862, occurred the ceremony which united the destinies of J.
Francis Riley and Miss Susan Miller. The bride was at that time thirty years of
age, having been born December 4, 1832. The gentleman with whom she was united
was a native of Scotland, and a man of many worthy attributes of character. In
the beautiful home that he built with the assistance of his wife, he laid down
his life May 6, 1889, and passed to the Great Beyond. He was a man of honorable
character, whose life was guided by principles of right and morality, and who
was temperate in all things. In his daily intercourse with others he was kind
and considerate, a good husband and a stanch friend to his neighbors. He helped
in every possible way to promote the interests of the community and his death
was sincerely mourned by his large circle of acquaintances.

  Mrs. Riley is one of three children. Eliza married Alexander Humes and resides
in Vassar; May became the wife of Isaac N. Waterbury and makes her home in
Stamford, Conn. Mr. Miller passed from earth December 23, 1884, at the age of
eighty-two years, honored and respected by all who knew him. The paternal
grandparents of our subject were Nathaniel and Christina Miller, who were
natives of the Empire State. On both sides of the family the ancestors were
patriotic, some of them being soldiers in the Revolutionary War under Gen.
Washington, and one being an officer. A consistent member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Mrs. Riley endeavors to so live as to honor the religion which
she professes. She manages the valuable estate left her by her husband, and
possessing a clear head, much business capacity, and good judgment, she cares
for her farm so as to make it produce the best results.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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