Mrs. W. S. Miles Dead
Hopkins Woman Passed Away Wednesday Morning Was In Business There
For Many Years She Struggled to Rear Her Family—Second Husband and Seven Children Survive
Mrs. W. [illiam] S. Miles died at her home in Hopkins Wednesday morning at 6 o’clock. Mrs. Miles had been a great sufferer for the past year, and her trouble being of a cancerous nature, her death was not unexpected. She had been in the novelty and Millinery business in Hopkins for a number of years and only lately gave up the work entirely when she sold her business to Miss Frances Lindsay.
In the death of Mrs. Miles Hopkins loses a woman of business ability, kindliness of heart and Christian character. Left as she was with her family of little ones to provide for, she made a noble fight to rear them as best she could and only those close to her ever realized the struggle this noble mother made.
She united with the Presbyterian church at the age of 12 years and continued always in the very darkest days to cling to her faith, especially at the last, to her hope for the future.
The funeral services will be held at the Presbyterian church by Rev. A. P. Walton, the pastor, assisted by Rev. Taylor of the M. E. church.
The time for the service cannot be arranged until relatives have been heard from. Burial will take place in Hopkins cemetery.
Mrs. Miles’ maiden name was Francelia A. Davis. She was born in Randolph, Wis., and moved while yet a child with her parents to Blue Earth, Minn. Here she grew to womanhood and was married to M. [yron] D. [ecker] Jackson of the same place. In 1885 she came with her husband to Hopkins, which has been her home ever since. Mr. Jackson died in 1891 and in 1895 she was again married to William Miles of Hopkins, who, with a family of grown sons and daughters, mourned the loss of a loving wife and mother.
The children are Ellis, J. A., and Theodore Jackson of Hopkins; Prof. Dee Jackson of Big Heart, Okla.; Glen Jackson of Waterloo, Ia.; Miss Frances Miles, who is teaching with her brother at Big Heart, Okla., and an older daughter, Mrs. Pearl Jackson Cook, who is with her husband in the Philippines, Mr. Cook holding a government position there. Mrs. Miles also left a sister, who lives in Chicago.

Daily Democrat-Forum (Maryville, Missouri), Wednesday, September 11, 1912, [p. 1]

She married Myron Decker Jackson January 14, 1874 in Faribault County, Minnesota.
Source: Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949