Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
CROSSING THE DARK RIVER.

Another link binding together the
past and present has been severed in
the death of Mrs. Julia Moore Miller,
of Shepherdstown, which occurred
last Friday at the home of her son,
Maurice L. Miller, in Faiunont, w.
/ Va. Last October Mrs. Miller went to
Fairmont with the intention of spend
/ ing the winter with MIR. Miller and his
| family. Soon after~she arrived there
she became i'll with a severe cold that
approached pneumonia. She recov-
cred from this illness, but il left her
very weak. Last Wednesday she was
taken sick with acute indigestion, and
| her heart becoming involved, her
death resulted Friday night. After a
/ service at the house in Fairmont Sun
| day afteroon the body was brought to
I Shepherdstown. Monday afternoon
the burial service of the Lutheran
Church, of which Mrs. Miller had
been a member from her youth, was
read at her late home in this place by
her pastor, Rev. |. ID. Woman, and
the body was laid to rest in Elmwood
Cemetery. Mrs. Miller, who was in
| the 7Sd year of her age. was born in
Shcpherdstown, and most of her life
was spent here. Her father was
/ John I. Little, native of Fairfax
county, Va, and her mother was Ellen
Entler Little, daughter of Joseph Ent-
/ tier, a prominent resident of Shep-
herdstown in the last century. Her
father, Mr.. Little, was connected with
Arnold Constable & Co, of New York,
and as a buyer for that house made
twenty-five trips to Europe in his time.
In 1868 he was elected mayor Of
Chicago, where he was living at that
time. She was educated in convent
in New York. In her young woman
hood she was regarded as one of the
most beautiful girls in Shepherds
town, and being gay and animated and
full of life and spirit, was also one
of the most popular and attractive. She
married Clinton Moore Miller, who
died some thirty years ago, and since
that time she lived a retired life, GO
ing out but little. She was a woman
of sweetness and refinement, of great
kindness Of heart and charity of
thought and utterance. One Of her
characteristics was the quality Of al
ways seeing the good side OF people
and her faith in her friends. She
lived here with her aunt, Mrs. M. L.
Harrington, and her brother, Lewis
G. Little, who survive her. Her only
child is her son, Maurice E. Miller, OF
Fairmont who also survives, with her
two little grandchildren, Mary Moore
Miller and Louis Reed Miller Mrs
Miller's old friends will sorrow at heI
death, for in her passing a good wo.
man has gone from earth.
B. Milton Miller, an aged man, who
had been an inmate of the county in.
hn
died there a few days ago from paral.
ysis. His wife, who was with hin
when he was committed there, died ir
October, leaving him alone in the
world. Grief over her departure caus.
cd the old man to become melancholy
and to long for death that he migh
be with her again in a better world
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Miller were borr
and reared near Falling Waters
Berkeley county, but for years lived
in the West. 1t is said they have 9
son now cashier Of bank in Chicago
besides another son who is prosper.
ing in business somewhere in the
West. Mr. Miller was 7S years DID,
Advocate.
B. F. Ware, much-esteemed resi-
| dent Of Jefferson county, died Wednes
Nay VI WIN dt Ills USdl
Myerstown, after long period Of i'll
} ness from complication of diseases
He was 60 years Of age, farmer b,
occupation, and lived all his life in thC
, Myerstown neighborhood. He is sur
vived by his wife, three sons, John
Howard and Warren Ware, and thre,
daughters, Misses Harriet, Marpare
: and Julia Ware.
, Mrs. Elizabeth O'Boyle, an apec
resident of Bolivar. this county. diec
at her home in that place on Satur
day last. She is survived by her hus
band, Daniel O'Boylc; a son, Waite
:, O'Boyle, of Washington; and
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Dudrow, O
: Bolivar.
Beatrice, the six-year- daughte
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Mcdonald. o
the Vanclevesville neighborhood, diec
last Saturday from the epidemic o
e throat disease that has been prevail
' ing in that section.
= Thomas Cockrell died last Friday a
= his home at Harper's Ferry, aged II
S years. Some years ago he conducted
D flour mill near Halltown. He wa
I unmarried.
. John Brannon died recently at hi
home in Harper's Ferry. He was al
o employee of the B. & o. Railroad.