- Miller - After a lengthened and painful illness, borne with Christian fortitude and resignation, Mrs. Robert Miller, of Montreal, died in that city on Sunday last, and her remains were brought to Perth on Tuesday afternoon to be laid beside those of her late husband, whose death occirred some eight or ten years previously.
Mrs. Miller, whose maiden name was Christina Brown, was one of the once numerous and well known family, of Perth, whose sole representative now living is Miss Ellen Brown, whose home is with her grand nieces, Misses Josie and Jessie Armstrong, Stewart Square, town.
The brothers were William, James and Allan; and the sisters, besides Miss Brown, were: Mrs. James Allan, Mrs. James Lafferty, Mrs. Robert Adison, Mrs John S. Hart, and Mrs. W.H. Grant, names once so familiar in this town and country.
Deceased was married to Mr. Robert Miller, another member of a prominent and quite numerous family of Perth, all of whom moved away from here years ago, and the survivors of whom are resident in Montreal and Toronto. The father of this family was a foundry man and machinist, and founded what is still recollected by our older people, as the Miller foundry, in the stone structure now used as a coal shed by Mr. Henry Taylor.
The family of deceased were: George, who died in his youth; another brother, and three daughters, Mrs. Dunn, Mrs Thomson, and Miss Charlotte. The latter and Mrs Dunn, Mr. Dunn and Kenneth Miller, son of Mr George Miller, of Montreal, accompanied the remains to Perth. The casket was taken from the train to Elmwood cemetery and laid in the vault.
Rev. Dr. Currie, of Knox Church, conducted the services. The remembrances of friends and church institutions, in the way of flowers, wreaths, sprays, etc. was quite remarkable, and a justs tribute to one whom Christian graces, and personal qualities entitled her to the deepest tokens of affection and esteem.
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1842 - 1914 (71 years)
