MILLER, Nancy 1834-1913

MILLER, MEGAW

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 2/12/2022 at 17:18:18

Death Of Another Grundy Old Settler

Mrs. John Miller Died Following Short Sickness

Funeral At House This Afternoon

Mrs. John Miller died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. L. Hostetter in Washington township Monday evening following a short illness from heart and bronchial trouble.

Funeral services will be held at the home at two this afternoon. Interment in the cemetery at Morrison.

Mrs. Miller came to this county about thirty years ago and during all of that time she was a resident of Washington township. Her husband died five years ago since which time she has been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Hostetter.

Mrs. Miller is survived by one son James Miller and six daughters, all of whom are married. The daughters are Mrs. James Mooty, Mrs. Thomas Mooty, Mrs. Walter Miller, Mrs. M. L. Hostetter and Mrs. Jacob Long. All but Mrs. Long reside in this county. Mrs. Long lives in Kansas.

Mrs. Millers obituary will appear in the next paper.

--The Grundy Democrat (Grundy Center, Iowa), 27 November 1913, pg 1

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"Grandma Miller"

Mother. Dear scared name, and sweet,
How slow we are to prove
The height and depth and deathlessness of perfect mother love
We take her tender daily care just as the thoughtless flowers.
Look up to God for daily light
Because we know tis ours.
But when we miss from heart and life the comfort of her care
Then we must learn to live without her presence and her prayer
Tis then the name of mother is to us a holy thing,
And having low, we seem to fill the shelter of a wing."

Nancy Ann Megaw was born at Cullebachy, Ireland on August 15th, 1834, and died at her home south of Morrison, Monday evening Nov. 24th, 1913.

Her girlhood was spent in her native country and there she was married to John Miller in 1858. The young couple emigrated to this county in April 1862 and for a period of twenty-one years, lived in Scott County, Iowa, and then coming to Grundy County in 1883 were permitted to live happily together until about four years ago, when the husband was called home.

His death was indeed a bitter trial for Grandma, and this grief together with other subsequent deaths in her family have filled her declining years full of sorrow, but she was one of those few women, who tried to forget her own troubles, in her pity and compassion for others always ready to sympathize with all both in their sorrows and their happiness.

She was a kindly philosophic woman; who while she liked to have people live up to her ideals, yet not being able to have them as she would, accepted them as they were and was loyal and lovable in all that the name of friend implies. She lived a clean, beautiful useful life--a noble Christian gentle woman, and loved the good things of life. Her influence on those who knew her was great and always for good.

Despite her four score years she was always genial and ever gracious and had grown old only in years, being young in both heart and spirit. To us who were blest, in that we knew this woman, is left a memory of what a truly good woman she was. Of such women as Grandma Miller must the great Jewish Rabbi have been thinking when he said "The Lord could not be every where so he made mothers."

She leaves to mourn her six daughters and one son, namely, Agnes Copley, Margaret Mooty, Jemima Long, James Miller, Henrietta Mooty, Elizabeth Miller and Sarah Hostetter. One daughter was taken from her in infancy and another, Mrs. Mary Copley passed away about two years ago.

The funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church of Morrison where Mrs. Miller had been a loyal and sincere member for many years and where she was always in her place of worship when health permitted.

The many many beautiful flowers were evidence of the high esteem and respect in which she was held, the casket being covered with a beautiful blanket of roses, a token from her children.

Her own pastor, Rev. Heizer, had charge of the services being assisted by Rev. Krome of Grundy Center and Rev. Campbell and a quartette from Reinbeck.

Six of her grandsons acted as pall bearers.

Friends and relatives present for the services, from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Long, Quinter, Kansas, Messrs Hugh McHeath and David Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Will Megain and Mr. William Copley, Marshalltown, Mr. and Mrs. John Mooty, Trosky, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Halloraf, Hastings, Neb., and Mr. and Mrs. Mardis, Greencastle, Mo.

--The Grundy Democrat (Grundy Center, Iowa), 4 December 1913, pg 1