October 13, 2012
A narration and dramatic reading of Elizabeth Miller's diaries presented by the Greene County Historical Society for the Greenville Public Library will be held at 2pm on Saturday October 13, at the Library. The narration will be done by Robert Hallock, president of the Society, and his wife Ann, Bronck
Museum Committee Co-Chair.
The reading is titled "Good Heavens! What Come Here?". It covers Elizabeth's thoughts on the family life on the farm and the events of the civil war, from Fort Sumter's fall to the rebels to Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomatax and Lincoln's assassination. According to some sources Elizabeth's account of the Lincoln viewing in Albany as his body was lying in State is one of only a possible few accounts by a woman.
The diaries were purchased by the Society a few years ago and were written in the period 1860 to 1865 by Elizabeth Miller who lived in the Medway area of the Town of New Baltimore. Elizabeth was the granddaughter of Jonathan Miller who came to this area in the late 1700's and bought a large tract of land in what was then the Town of Coxsackie. She lived with her father,
mother and brother on a farm on Route 54 near what is now the Coxsackie Reservoir in Medway.
