Stella Alberta Miller ^{2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: L62W-7D8.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She has conflicting birth information of Her death record states 22 years, 6 months, 13 days which is 9 Jul 1876, while her marriage record states 29 Jul 1876., 9 Jul 1876 and Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁴

2. Newspaper: Pittsburgh Press: Ad with Portrait of Stella Beecher, 8 Mar 1894, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁷ Catarrh of the Lungs.
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Showing that Catarrh of a Bronchial Nature May Extend Very Quickly to Consumption.
The extension of catarrh to the lungs in this climate, causing hemorrhages, night sweats, cough, loss of flesh and strength and all the evidences of incipient consumption, is not always a matter of many years. Miss Stella Beecher, of Boggs avenue, Mt. Washington, is a very young lady, as well as a very beautiful one. She had suffered only a few years from a nasal catarrh, when the symptoms of severe bronchial trouble made their appearance.
(drawing of Miss Beecher)
"I first noticed that my trouble was becoming serious," she says, "by the cough at night. If I went out in the evening, as soon as I got home and went to bed, I would commence to cough. I began to have night sweats and raised blood. These was a feeling of tightness across my chest -- suffocating spells -- my breath was difficult. It would come with a wheezing sound. The coughing spells grew worse, and I would cough till I was faint and dizzy. They told me I was going into consumption. My parents took me to Dr. Copeland. Under his care the trouble entirely disappeared. I am perfectly well."

3. Death Certificate: Pittsburgh Death Record: Stella Alberta BEECHER, aged 22 years 2 months 16 days, married, died September 25 1898; pericarditis after typhoid fever; parents unknown; born in Pittsburgh; lived 243 Boggs Ave; burial McKeesport PA cemetery 28 Sep 1898., 25 Sep 1898, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁴

4. Obituary: Pittsburgh Press: Mrs Stella Alberta BEECHER, wife of Frank BEECHER, died yesterday morning. On 26 Sep 1898 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ³

5. Newspaper: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Funeral of Stella Alberta Beecher, 28 Sep 1898, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁸ Died. BEECHER -- On Sunday, September 25, 1898, at 5:50 a.m., Stella Alberta Beecher, wife of Frank Beecher, aged 22 years, 2 months and 16 days.
Funeral from her father-in-law's residence, 243 Boggs avenue, Thirty-second ward, on Wednesday, September 28, at 10:30 a. m. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend.
(McKeesport papers please copy.).

6. Fact: Research notes from descendant James Owston. ⁹ Stella was named Miller at birth, but was apparently was unofficially adopted by Kate at some point and took the name Beecher as did Kate even though she was not officially married to Harvey. She is listed in the records of Bailey Avenue United Presbyterian Church of Mt. Washington as a communicant on 2 Mar 1893 as Miss Stella A. Beecher. She was dropped from the roles on March 31, 1898. Her listing as a communicant was a full year and nine months before her marriage to Frank Beecher. Her maiden name is listed as Beecher in the marriage records of Allegheny County with consent given by Kate Beecher. She is buried in the Merriman plot.

Stella married Frank Alexander Beecher, son of John Harvey Beecher and Frances Jenett Owston, on 22 Dec 1894 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA.¹ (Frank Alexander Beecher was born on 28 Jul 1873 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA,^{1 10 11 12 13 14} died on 2 Nov 1952 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA ^{12 13 15 16} and was buried on 5 Nov 1952 in Pittsburgh: United Cemetery, Allegheny, PA ^{12 13 16}.)