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Subject: [COULTER] Obit: Mary Amanda Coulter Miller (1867-1907)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:39:08 -0000

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>From my family genealogy and papers:
Winnebago, Minnesota:
(obit) IN MEMORIAM 'In the midst of life we are in death.' Thus spoke the preacher, and the friends and neighbors gathered to pay the last tribute of respect to the dead could not help but feel the painful truth of the scripture on this occasion. The sturdy oak is uprooted and torn from its firm anchorage, while the withered leaf on the fragile bough remains through the coming and going of the seasons. The sweet babe is taken from its mother's arms, the maiden just coming into budding womanhood falls before the stern reaper, the mother full of years of usefulness is taken from her little flock, while the old and decrepit are left to linger the slender thread of life unsnapped, like a fragile particle swaying on the brink of a precipice. We feel that these things should not be so but we murmur not, for thus the Great Master was willed. Mary A. Coulter was born at randon, Wis, July 17, 1867, and come to Minnesota in 1872, with her parents, James and Emma Coulter, and two old!
er sisters, Miranda and Laura. Her parents settled at Spring Valley where they remained until 1878, when they removed to a farm three miles southeast of Winnebago. Her parents lived there until the time of their death. During her home life she was the main dependence of her father in his farm work. April 4, 1888, she was married to Elbert J. Miller. The young couple commenced housekeeping on the Abbott farm west of Winnebago, which Mr. Miller carried on for a little over four years. They then moved onto the old Standish farm, owned by Dr. Humes, where they lived for ten years, after which time they lived on their own farm on Elm Creek in Martin county, where Mr. Miller and his good wife built up a beautiful home, and had what is considered one of the finest farms in Martin county. Mrs. Miller died at three o'clock, May 23, 1907. The cause of her death was Bright's disease, accompanied by a paralytic stroke. All that medical attendance, careful nursing and the assistanc!
e kind neighbors could render proved unavailing. The sufferer passed p
eacefully away and the kindly, generous heart ceased to beat. Mrs. Miller is survived by her husband, and three children aged respectively: Robert Leo 16, Patience 12, and Alice Emeline 10 years. She also leaves to mourn her loss three sisters and one brother, who are: Miranda Hazelton of Racine, Minn., Laura Coulter of Fairmont, Relief Stauffer, who lives with her husband, Newton Stauffer, on the old Coulter homestead, and William.

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