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- The following is c/o Joseph Cooke (http://www.babycookmakes3.com/family/mcnaughton1806.html )
Her Obituary was as follows: "Infinite trust, unyielding fidelity, and absolute devotion to duty amid all the vicissitudes of life, were the marked characteristics of Margaet McNaughton, who for more than fifty-eight years was the loyal and devoted wife od Daniel McMillan.
Her ancestors were reared amid the influences which attended the teaching of John Knox after he returned from the feet of Calvin.
They were of the race that gave a lasting impress to Scotland; men of strong character and sever principles; men who fought and suffered until religious freedom was won and established in the Chuch of Scotland.
These characteristics of courage and intellectual strength, of indomitable will and honesty of purpose, which moulded and glorified the past and remain the blessing of the present, were the birthright of Margaret McNaughton.
At an early age, she became the favorite child of an heirless uncle and aunt, by whom she was reared and educated with all the rigor and discipline of the exact methods and religious teaching that obtained in the household of Deacon John McVean, of Caledonia, a man of marked ability, serious though, and quiet manner. This influence maintained its sway, and in a great measure characterized and moulded her life. She was quiet, reserved, sincere; possessed of a heart full of tenderness and sympathy, yet without demonstration she wielded an influence for good by wise counsel and unselfish ministration. She was a woman of pre-eminant intuition and of unyielding fidelity to her church, her family and her friends. Unselfishness, faithfullness, and fortitude were the dominant qualities of her nature. She was indeed the ideal wife and mother; always firm, ever consistant; actuated by exalted ideals and stimulated by reasonable ambition. Her joy was in the courts of the Lord's house, and it was ever her pleasure to welcome to her hearth and home those engaged in the Master's work.
Her father, Malcolm McNaughton, came from Glenlyon, Scotland, in 1795, and settled at Broadalbin, in the Mohwak valley, where Margaret was born March 6, 1806. In 1812, the family joined the Scottish pioneers and took a new home in the far famed valley of the Genesee. Some years later, the family, with the exception of Margaret and two married sisters, again changed their residence and settled at Milton, in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Here they took much interest in public affairs; three of her brothers occupied seats in the Canadian Parlament, and a fourth, active in the organization of Wisconsin as a State, was a member of its legislative body.
Margaret was married January 24, 1828 to Daniel McMillan. They took up their home in York, n the western slope of the beautiful Genesee. There for fifty-eight years they exemplified in their family life the sturdy Covenanter home; he was the "master of the house" and she the loving, loyal, helpmate, twice each day the household gathered at the family altar; a psalm was sung, a chapter of the Bible read and a prayer offered, at which every servant and member of the household was present.
On March 30, 1886, her life work ended; her illness was brief; the blessing of freedom without suffering was accorded her, and after four days she closed her mortal eyes in sleep.
The beauty of her life remains to her children and grandchildren for generaions to come; it is theirs to hang upon the walls of memory forever, a well-spring of love and unselfishness, "pure as the dew of morning, and sweet as its breath;" and as they rise up to call her blessed, they will seem to hear the words of Willis, like the angelic strains of he "choir invisible," bringing peace and solace as naught else can thie side of the "shores of light".
-At the time of her death, the New York Senate passed a resoluation marking the sympathy of the Senate chamber to her son, Daniel H. McMillan, a serving State Senator, for the death of his mother.
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1806 - 1886 (80 years)
