Mrs. Mercy A. Burdge Miller, wife of Charles H. Miller of Fairfield, in Howell township, died at the home of Austin P. Johnson of Freehold on Monday of last week. Mrs. Miller had been nursing at Mr. Johnson’s for two weeks, when she was taken sick with pneumonia. She was 53 years old. Besides her husband she leaves one son, John A. Miller.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, January 18, 1899