Charlotte Augusta Miller

Charlotte Augusta Noyes Miller

Charlotte Augusta Noyes, the youngest of nine children born to Hon. John Noyes and Polly Hayes, was born on March 2, 1819. She became a believer in Perfectionism upon the conversion of her brother in 1834. She married John Ransom Miller on September 7, 1841. She was in the Putney Association from the beginning and joined the Oneida Association with her husband and three children on June 14, 1849. The children were: Tirzah Crawford Miller, born September 13, 1842; George Noyes Miller, born September 13 1845; and Helen Campbell Miller, born August 5, 1847.

She had artistic talent and perhaps taught sketching in the Community, as well as working as a silk partner. When she was seventeen, she attended a superior school in Hartford, Conn. This is where she studied with success and cultivated her taste for drawing, one of her greatest pleasures. According to the March 24, 1873 Circular, Charlotte’s genius with the pencil was in great demand for designing and drawing.

Both her younger brother, George W. and W. A. Hinds worked in her husband’s mercantile store in Putney. Hinds in later years described Charlotte as a person with “heart large enough to take in the whole family. Everyone from the youngest to the oldest felt free to go to her for sympathy and counsel, sure of an appreciative ear. Her waking hours, both day and night, are spent speaking of God’s goodness, and confessing his strength, faith, and courage in her”.

Her grandson, Kenneth Hayes Miller, became a very accomplished artist.

She drew the side edge quilt pieces of the “Best” Quilt and penned the signatures. Often the best writer signed the quilt pieces for their creators. https://waltsmusings.wordpress.com/best-quilt-1873/