Franklin County OhArchives Obituaries.....Morrill, Mille July 22 1858 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John Mickle antiojo2001@yahoo.com July 15, 2004, 7:27 pm Columbus Gazette, July 30, 1858 Died at 80 yrs 9 mos 1 day on July 22, 1858. Obituary appears in the July 30, 1858 Columbus Gazette that is available at the Columbus Public Library on an inter library loan. The following is a transcript of that obituary as it appeared on page 3 of the July 30, 1858 edition. Died, July22d, 1858, Mille Morrill, age 80 years, 9 months and 1 day. Mrs. Morrill was one of the Pioneer women of Ohio, having migrated hither with her husband, the late Moses Morrill, in the year A. D. 1812, from near Boston, Mass. Traveling then was not what it is in 1858. They were forty two days on the way road it could hardly be called. They came in a two horse wagon, or rather in company with the wagon. The family, including Mrs. Morrill, came the greater portion of the distance on foot, oftentimes through mud and water. They arrived about the 1st of December. They had previously in 1809, bought in company with her brothers, (Nathaniel and Wm Marion,) a lot of about 1800 acres of refugee lands, at the rate of one dollar per acre, on a part of which they settled early in the year 1813, where she resided until her death. Twenty one years ago this month, Mrs. Morrill was deprived of her husband by death, since when she has mostly had the management of her own business, and although she was a weak, frail, woman, but few men have conducted their business more understandingly or to better purpose. As was stated by the venerable Dr. Hoge at her funeral, Mrs. Morrill was for more than forty years a member of the church over which he was pastor, and as he believed, a firm and consistent Christian. She died in hopes of a blessed immortality. It is perhaps worthy of remark, that Mrs. Morrill was the last of the old settlers on the Chillicothe road, within several miles of the city of Columbus. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/franklin/obits/ob385morrill.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb