Married Nicodemus " Nicholas" Miller on 31 Dec 1857 in Scotland County, Missouri. Married Owen E. Crutcher on 12 Jul 1880 in Nevada.

L. E. Byrne’s Sister Died In California
Mrs. M. T. Crutcher died of natural causes at the advanced age of 89, Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Adams, in Los Angeles, where she was taken last week. Her son, Senator J. H. Miller was at the bedside when the end came.
Like so many other pioneers, “Grandma” Crutcher’s life was filled with adventure and thrills and columns could be written of the part she played as a pioneer in the Hawthorne district, she having lived here since the day the town was founded, over 50 years ago.
A native of West Virginia, Mrs. Crutcher crossed the continent in an ox-cart in the sixties, and after the majority of the party had been lost either through Indian fights or winter hardships her parents located at Austin Nevada, where she was reared to womanhood. There she became the bride of N. Miller and four children were born of the union, three of whom survive. The elder Miller died in Austin.
Bringing her family into the Hawthorne section, Mrs. Crutcher enjoyed the privilege of traveling across Walker Lake in the old steamboat that used to sail far above the shore line where the modern highway now provides routing for automobiles. She settled at the southern shore of the lake where several homesteads had been set up and a freighting station afforded employment to a number of people.
The then booming camp of Bodie placed such a demand on freighting service that L.A. Hawthorne and others conceived the idea of founding a town and when Hawthorne was officially recognized as a township, deceased was one of the prominent “charter” residents of the communities. It was here that she became the wife of Crutcher and two children were born of this marriage. One daughter survives. Crutcher died here several years ago.
Although at an advanced age, the sturdy woman, typical of the pioneer mothers, was alert and active and it was only recently that she showed signs of the illness which prompted her removal to the lower altitude and warmer climate.
Widely known as “Grandma,” she was in fact the great, great grandmother of Robyn Lavirne Forsythe and the great grandmother of D. M. Buckingham, both of Hawthorne. Although very affectionate towards all the members of the large family she was especially so to the younger children, and nothing was more pleasing to the elderly woman than to have the kiddies playing about the garden of her home that was one of the beauty spots of Hawthorne.
Her kind acts and deeds were so extensive that she was known to all Hawthorne as “Grandma,” and her absence will leave a vacancy that will be felt for many years to come.
No funeral arrangements have been announced as yet as it is the desire to communicate with all members of the family.
Immediate surviving relatives are two sons, Senator J. H. Miller of Hawthorne and Alvy Miller of Carson City. Two daughters, Mrs. J. E. Adams and Mrs. G. F. Sloan of Los Angeles, and a brother L. E. Byrne in Memphis, Mo. Mrs. Neva Ferretti and Mrs. Florence Buckingham of Hawthorne are grand children. – Hawthorne, Nevada Herald.
In a letter from his niece, Mr. Byrne learned that his sister was buried temporarily in Los Angeles, but that the body would be taken to Hawthorne, her old home, in the spring and be buried there.
Memphis, Missouri, Memphis Reveille, 21 Jan 1932, p. 3, col. 1

OLD HAWTHORNE RESIDENT DEAD
Mrs. Maria T. Crutcher, mother of Senator J. H. Miller of Mineral county, died yetserday at her home in Hawthorne. She was ninety years old. Mrs. Crutcher came to Nevada when a girl and resided at Austin until the old C. & C. railroad was built to Hawthorne when she moved there and made her home there continuously.
Another son, Alva Miller of Carson, and a daughter, Mrs. J. E. Adams, of Los Angeles, survive. She also leaves six grandchildren, two great grandchildren and one great [sic] grandchild.
Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, Nevada, 29 Dec 1931, Tue • Page 12, Column 8
(Contributed by Juli King)