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152. Hannah Marinda Colborn Miles, Pal's great grandmother, pioneer from Nauvoo to St. George

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Hannah Marinda Colborn Miles was my father's grandmother, my great grandmother.  It hardly seems possible that I am as close a descendant to her as my own dear great grandchildren whom I love and enjoy.  She died 23 years before I was born, but we both had 9 children, and in just over one month I will be the age she was when she passed away, 79 years and 9 months.   I appreciate so much my father's sister, Sarah Miles Wallace, writing her memories of some of our Miles ancestors.  Aunt Sarah was the genealogist on my Miles side, and compiled and did much Temple work, and writing of histories.  This isn't a long story, but if you'd like to also go to the blogs about her father Thomas Colborn, and her husband Samuel Miles, you'll get more of an idea of her life.  Men often were the ones to write their history, but the pioneer women were right alongside them experiencing the same things.  My Aunt Sarah's writings of her grandmother are below: A FEW INCIDENTS IN