Hibernia Hughes Letter to Sarah Miller 1/23/1833:
Susan and I have been on the other side of the Mississippi river since we came home, and stay'd two or three days with old Aunt Sarah, and pleasured about in a skift part of the time, we went out to two islands just opposite Aunt Sarah's house and got out and walke'd about for some time, we had a young man with us that understood how to manage a skift, he was an easy good natured kind of a soul, that would do just what we told him. I made him believe I was very fond of riding fast and made him pull until he was half dead;
Hibernia Hughes to Susan Miller 3 Jun 1834: "Philip Erwin, Alzada, and myself went last Saturday to the camp-meeting in Louisiana, where we found all our friends pretty well and enjoying themselves the right way. Cousin Jim was shouting like a Turk, and Aunt Sally was cooking like a horse. They were all camped on the ground and Cousin Jim's wife is the sickliest looking person I ever saw, and her little baby that is four months old don't look to be more than three weeks and has been sick ever since it was born. There were about twenty joined the church, and cousin Eb has a very, plane, old-fashioned wife but I think her a very fine woman indeed. "
Zilpah Miller to Susan Miller, 8 Nov 1838:"Aunt Sarah Miller is dead."
See First Families of Mississippi, Vol. 2: James Cole, Sr.; resided in Mississippi in 1772. He was born in New Castle, Delaware ca. 1730 and died in Natchez District MS on 19 May 1794. Married to Maru Rentfroe (died Natchez Dist. between 1806 and 1810). Daughter Sarah b. ca 1768 m. Robert Miller. This James Cole is probably the namesake of Coles Creek, mentioned in deeds to Robert Miller, and is the same person who sold land to Felix Hughes.
Sarah Cole's estate property sold for $8999 on 15 Feb 1939. |