OBITUARY: Evaline McMillin Miller; Jamestown, Chautauqua co., NY 
surname: Miller, McMillin, Ludwig, Cowan, Harriger, Steckel

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By W. P. Sipe, Memoirs of Deceased Wives of Preachers, Journal and Yearbook of
the Erie Conference, 1917, pages 137-138

MRS. JAMES R MILLER.

Mrs. James R. Miller, wife of the late Rev. J. R. Miller, died at the home of 
her daughter July 24th, 1917, at Jamestown, N. Y. Mrs. Miller's maiden name 
was Evaline McMillin; she was born near New Bethlehem, Pa., August 11th, 1857, 
and was united in marriage June 8th, 1876, to J. R. Miller, at Shariton, Iowa, 
by the Rev. T. McCay Stewart. Nine children were born to this union, of which 
six remain to mourn the death of their mother, namely, Mrs. R. W. Ludwig, 
Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. A. J. Cowan, Jamestown, N. Y.: Mrs. C. M. Harriger, Oil 
City, Pa.; Mrs. Howard Steckel, Easton, Pa.: James, now in the United States 
Army, and Ralph G., of Chicago, Ill.

Mrs. Miller was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than forty 
years. Twenty-four years of that time were spent in Methodist parsonages as 
the wife of an itinerant minister. During these years she was not only the 
loving mother of her children but the constant inspiration of her husband who 
so successfully carried forth the work of the Lord in many of the trying 
places of the Kingdom.

For several years Mrs. Miller was a patient sufferer from a lingering illness. 
Her faith in Christ was her constant stay during this entire time and in Him 
she triumphed in the last hour so that the "king of terrors" was overcome in 
this hour of trial and the handmaiden of the Lord was released to go forth to 
meet the husband of her youth and the children of her bosom and the Christ 
whom she loved so well.

The obsequies were observed July 25th, 1917, at Scotch Hill, Pa., and were 
conducted by the Rev. William P. Sipe. Mrs. Miller's remains were laid to rest 
by the side of her late husband in the burial grounds at Scotch Hill, Pa.

And now from out the glory
In living clouds of light,
The old familiar faces some
Beaming on her sight:
The early lost and early loved,
The friends of long ago,
Companions of her pilgrimage
And conflicts here below.

They parted here in weakness,
In suffering, and in gloom;
They meet amid the freshness
Of Heaven's immortal boon,
Henceforth in ever-during bliss
To wander hand in hand
Beside the living waters
Of that still and sinless land.

0, who can tell the rapture
Of those to whom 'tis given
Thus to renew the bonds of earth
Amid the bliss of heaven?