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Obituary- Miller, Jacob

J. W. MILLER
Jacob W. Miller passed away at Glasgow, Mont., Saturday, August 28, at 4 p. m., very quietly in unconsciousness, in which state he had been for only 24 hours, suffering almost no pain.

He was living with his son Charles Miller at the time of his death whence he came the last of February. He missed the old familiar walks and friends and was never happy away from Rossville, but was cared for lovingly in his last days.

Jacob W. Miller was born in York township, York county, Pa., July 14, 1841. His mother was a sister of the late Daniel Wilt. He was baptized in the German Reformed church. He learned the plasterers trade with the Wilt brothers, John and Daniel. He entered the Civil war as a volunteer and joined the 15th Penna. Cavalry of Harrisburg and was made a corporal Aug. 15, 1865. He was honorably discharged at the close of the war.

December 25, 1866, he was married to Elizabeth Jane Gray at Germantown, Pa., and their four children were born at Blaine, Pa., where the family lived until coming to Kansas.

His shoulders were crippled with rheumatism when he was mustered out and his trade was not easy to follow, so he was apprenticed to John Seiger and learned cabinet making and undertaking business, which he followed until the manufactured goods forced the handworker out and it was then he came to Kansas.

With a very brief period of a part of two years his family have thought of Rossville as home for these 47 years.

Always interested in the church to the point of sacrifice, a loyal and faithful citizen, proud to vote, and a careful father, his children revere his memory and all his friends regarded him highly for his common virtues simply lived.

Funeral services in Rossville were held in the M. E. church Thursday, September 2, conducted by Rev. G. G. Albin of Topeka, and the body interred in the family lot in Rossville cemetery.