COLUMBIA COUNTY OHIO - MORRIS/MILLER History Chapter 21 (published 1873)
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"HISTORY OF THE MORRIS AND MILLER FAMILIES" By Morris Miller  1873
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	          Chapter 21
	   Stepmother’s Latter Days and Death

	The farm had been carried on by tenants for several 
years, as the youngest brother had been married near four 
years previous to Father’s death, there being a tenant house 
on the premises convenient to the other buildings. Several 
years previous to Father’s decease they had adopted a 
fatherless boy about twelve years of age. He proved to be 
very dutiful, and gave Father a great deal of satisfaction 
in doing chores and taking care of stock. He remained with 
them about four years, and yet looks back with gratitude on 
the kind treatment and good lessons administered to him 
while there. He is now at the head of a large family of his 
own.

	Stepmother resided on the farm and had it carried on by 
tenants for almost seven years. The youngest sister remained 
also until the time of her marriage, which occurred about a 
year after Father’s decease. She was given as comfortable a 
wedding entertainment as if her Father had been living. 
Although the sister left, the mother was not alone. She had 
taken a young daughter of her deceased sister to raise some 
years before, and coming then to an age of womanhood, gave 
Mother company until she married and left in a few years 
after. Mother afterwards had the company of a young woman 
named Ann Reader, who in process of time married a young man 
by the name of Mendenhall, a son of Sarah Mendenhall, then 
the third wife of Joseph Dutton.

	Thus time passed on until age and infirmities 
admonished her to retire from the cares of the farm and 
household. Having a younger sister who had married a man 
named Cooper and being comfortably situated, Mother made her 
abode with them until the time of her death. Being 
sanctified by the comfortable reflection that for nearly 
twenty years she had been a kind and loving wife and for a 
period of thirty years, although she had no children of her 
own, an affectionate mother to the motherless, she departed 
this life in 185 , leaving her children to mourn the loss of 
a dear mother and the Society a very consistent member.