COLUMBIA COUNTY OHIO - MORRIS/MILLER History Chapter 20 (published 1873)
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"HISTORY OF THE MORRIS AND MILLER FAMILIES" By Morris Miller  1873
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	          Chapter 20

	   Father’s Latter Days and Decease

	Father enjoyed reasonably good health for about seven 
years after the occupancy of the new house, being relieved 
by dutiful sons from the cares of the farm. In addition to 
these home enjoyments, he had the satisfaction of seeing a 
new brick meeting house erected near where the old one 
stood, thus realizing the hopes that he had entertained when 
first settling in these seeming wilds, that he might live to 
see the time when the native forest would be succeeded by 
the fruitful fields, and that the old rude structures for 
homes and public purposes would, by the hand of industry and 
perserverance, be replaced by more permanent and commodious 
ones. He lived to see nine of his ten living children 
comfortably married. Mother and he both enjoyed the society 
of their companions with mutual satisfaction. After passing 
his sixty-first year, he was somewhat afflicted with 
rheumatism, which was and is yet a prevailing complaint 
among the Miller families in advanced age. Medical aid was 
resorted to. For a time it acted as a palliative, but 
finally lost its effect. After it ceased to relieve him he 
had to resign himself to the house and most of the time to 
his bed. For near two years before his death he was much 
afflicted with rheumatic affections and weakness of body, 
all of which he bore with remarkable patience and composure 
of mind, often dropping pleasant remarks that he had 
comfortable hopes that his day’s work had been faithfully 
done, closing them with some kind words of advice. His 
weakness increasing, he calmly departed this life on the    
of the 8th month, 1838. His funeral was largely attended 
by relatives, neighbors and friends.