The Fourth Reformed Presbyterian Church, erected in 1853, on North Main Street, Cedarville, Ohio, in which for fifty years James and Martha Elizabeth Murdock MacMillan and' their children worshipped, wjth other relatives from South Carblina, during the pastorates of Rev. Hugh McMillan, D.D., and James F. Morton, D.D. woman of unusual force and character, who remained behind with her four children while her husband came to get a foothold in the new world, before she and the children could come to join him. If this is not enough to demonstrate her courage, a further glimpse of her character may be seen in the family she helped to rear. Two of her sons became outstanding ministers. Her other sons and daughters had siuch strong convictions that when the slavery issue threatened the very life of their church in South Carolina, they severed their connection with friends and neighbors and moved to what then was a pioneer wilderness in western 44
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