Shep's Place Family Tree

On the 12th December, at the residence of Jane Alexander, of Letart, by Rev. Carmi Alderman, Mr. Matthew D. Brown, of Mason Co., Va., and Miss Mirian Ann Alexander, of Letart, Meigs Co., OH.

Directly under the marriage announcement was the POMEROY RETAIL MARKETS.
Thursday, Dec. 19, 1861.
Wheat ‎(White)‎..80@90cents p bush.
Wheat ‎(Red)‎..75@85cents p bush.
Family Flour..$5.00 p bush.
Corn..30 cents p bush.
Potatoes..30 cents p bush.
Eggs..12 1/2 cents p dozen

Also on the same page was an ad for Dr. Cheeseman's Female Regulating Pills!

THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF WOMAN
Is continually in peril if she is mad enough to neglect or maltreat those sexual irregularities to which two-thirds of her sex are more or less subject.
Dr. Cheeseman's Pills., prepared from the same formula which the inventor, CORNELIUS L., CHEESEMAN, M.D. of New York, has for twenty years used succfessfully in an extended private practice--immediately relieve without pain, all disturbances of the periodical discharge, whether arising from relaxation or suppresion. They act lika a charm in removing the pains that accompany difficult or immoderate menstruation, and are the only safe and reliable remedy for Flushes, Sick Headache, pains in the Loins, Back and Sides, Palpitation of the Heart, Nervous Tremors, Hysterics, spasms, Broken Sleep, and other unpleasant and dangerous affects of an unnatural condition of the sexual functions. In the worse cases of Fluor Albus of Whites, they effect a speedy cure.....etc.

Notice of her marriage to Mathew D. Brown

I do not know what Miriam's health problems were, although a guess is congestive heart failure. Having twins when she was forty years old probably didn't help. Miriam's son George told his mother that he would look after the twins, who were 18 when Miriam died.

Three of Miriam's boys, Miles, Marlin and Harry, plus Mide's brother George, were telegraph operators in Hartford. They learned by "hanging out at the telegraph office".

"I remember Grandma Brown ‎(Miriam)‎, but did not have the opportunity to know her very long. I think that Dad did look like his mother. She was tall and slender - a sweet person."