Sister of Margery Reid (wife of brother Ebeneezer)
Margaret Hughes to Ebenezer Miller, 13 Apr 1836:"I am at this time very sick indeed and has been for nearly a week, and all my family is very sick with colds or the Influansa. It is a general complaint in thisState and has taken off a great many people, but I have not lost any relations, that I know of lately, but I am afraid Brother Joseph will not stand it long, for he has been in bad health for nearly a year and I heard from him yesterday and he cannot turn in his bed and Margaret, his oldest daughter, is very sick indeed and two of the small Children also, but I did not understand which two it was. Sister Margaret was here with Brother Joseph in the later part February and was hardly able to sit up, but she is now in tolerable good health."
Joseph A. Miller letter to Hugh Reid Miller dated August 18, 1830 :"we all live at home with Mother except sister Margaret and Jane and Brother alexander sister Margaret lives about five miles from us she has one son sister Jane lives thirty five miles from us she has a son also Alexander lives five miles from us he is overeseeing for Dr. Grant ...we have met with the sad misfortune of loseing a kind and tender father but I hope he is injoying the swets of heven he was called away very unexpectely the estate has ben very much involved but I hop this crop will bring us prety well out of difficultys we still keep all the property together there is ten negroes and 265 acres of land and stock of horses cows etc."
Joseph A. Miller letter to Hugh R. Miller dated December 15, 1831: " expect to remain with my mother the ensuing year and spend the next year at school."
Since she is not mentioned in her son Robert's letter to Hugh Reid Miller in 1835 (see Robert Miller family card 1263), I assume she died before then. |