Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1904 — GENERAL MILES LOSES HIS WIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GENERAL MILES LOSES HIS WIFE

Helpmeet Dies Suddenly During Night I’rom Heart Disease at West Point, N. Y. West Foint, N. Y., Aug. 3.—Mrs. Nelson A. Miles died hero during the night of heart disease. She and General Miles had been visiting their son,

Sherman, who is a student at the military academy. General Miles was not present at the time of ills wife’s death, he having gone out of town. Mrs. Miles was 62 years old. She made a number of calls during the day, and apparently was in her usual health. At her bedside when death catne were her son-in-law. Colonel Samuel Reber, IT. S. A., her son Sherman and her nieces, Miss Pitch and Miss Hoyt, of Washington. Mrs. Miles was the daughter of Judge Charles Slierman and a niece of the late Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, and General William T. Sherman.

MRS. NELSON A. MILES.