Note: Several years ago, my good friend and cousin of my wife, Thor Springer, shared what life was like for pioneer women. I have been looking for a good time to share it with my readers with inserts from my own personal research about the Miller and Cook families. Although he did not want to have credit for this article, most of the stories in this article were told to me by him. Thank you, Thor.
First, it is important to realize that all women in America before the 20th century had few rights, could not own land, vote, or even lacked control of their children’s future. As my wife is quick to point out, African-American men were able to gain these rights before women of any race. If this were not challenging enough for women, it was even more so for women on the frontier. The noted genealogist and writer, Judith Hurst, said that moving from the east coast to the frontier was “devastating” to the women. While the frontier was continually moving westward, Michigan, Ohio, and upstate New York, where most of the Millers and Cooks ended up, were still very much the frontier in the 1800s.
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