Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Marriam MCMILLAN ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, April 2008 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ DIED -- McMillan Mrs. Marriam McMillan, relic of Charles McMillan, died on the old farm where she had lived since 1839 at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning, Nov. 4th, 1886, aged 75 years. Mrs. McMillan came from Ohio with her husband, Charles McMillan, in the fall of 1839, and settled on a farm about one mile south of Union village. They first built a log house for no settler of that day had any better, and it was the hospitable home of many a wayfarer of those early times. Mr. McMillan died 13 years ago to a day from the death of his wife. Mrs. McMillan lived in the old primitive log house until within some twenty years, when it was torn down and replaced by a frame cottage, and where she lived, with a widowed daughter, Mrs. Martin, until her death. She was the mother of ten children, three of whom died in infancy, and one, Mrs. Amanda Roy, died in Iowa, six survive her, and were all present at her death. They were, Mrs. Sarah A. Martin, whose husband died in the army, John S., of Union; David H., of Oshkosh; Eliza Harold of Minnesota; Hannah Thorp, of Evansville; Matilda Luce, of Wausau. She was a member of the fist Methodist class formed in the town of Union, and always remained a worthy and consistent member of that church. She was a woman possessed of a kind nature, beloved and respected by all, and leaves a wide circle of pioneer friends and christian neighbors to condole her loss. The funeral will be held in the Methodist church here, Sunday morning at half past ten. Sermon by the pastor. November 5, 1886, Evansville Weekly Review, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin