Find A Grave notes for Sr. Mary Anna Francis Isabella "Bernardine" Millard dau of Robert F Millard and Mary H. Brown Millard.
Data on MAFIM comes from two sources, 1) Nacogdoches court records pertaining to her guardianship application and 2) Brief life history written after her death and found in the Baltimore Visitation Convent book. She is also found in the U.S. census records of Baltimore in the Convent, first as a student, and later as a nun.
Mary Anna Francis Isabella Millard (MAFIM) was the first child of two of parents, Robert F. Millard and Mary H. Brown Millard, born in Washington, D.C. 28 August 1834. Upon taking the final vows of a nun on 29 Aug 1854, she became Sister Mary Bernardine Millard and is buried with the name of Sr. M. Bernardine Millard (from the nun's list.
MAFIM, at age 1, with mother and father moved from Washington, DC to the country of Mexico, the State of Texas, the town of Nacogdoches in early 1835, where her father became a citizen of Mexico. In mid 1835, a brother was born in Nacogdoches, who died in 1840. Mrs Mary Brown Millard died shortly thereafter in March, 1841.
Her father remarried 7 Dec 1843 to Massy W. Sparks and he died in Oct 1847 in the house he had built in Nacogdoches. This left MAFIM, a Catholic, living with a devout Baptist step-mother and two step-brothers (Sparks) and with a vested financial interest in her mother's and her father's estate, consisting of the lot and house, slaves, and other land grant property in Texas.
Her paternal, devout Catholic relatives, living in St. Mary's County, Md., were very concerned that if she remained in Texas that she would leave the Catholic faith and implored her to leave Texas and come to St. Mary's County. From the Convent Book: "At last, she bade adieu to her Texas home and friends, and arrived at her grandmother's in St. Mary's County, Md early in the summer of 1849. She soon became one of them: they were determined on her not leaving them and she finally gave up the idea of returning to her Western relatives - her two half brothers (Sparks) and one sister. NOTE: Actually, a half-sister, Mary Josephine Millard, born 1848, daughter of RFM and Massy.
Back to Nacogdoches and Court House records: In March, 1849, Philip U. Ford petitions the Nacogdoches County Court to appoint a guardian for the person and estate of MAFIM, who at that time was age 14 and actually was capable of choosing a guardian for herself. The court granted the request and shortly thereafter she left Nacogdoches County for St. Mary's County, Md. In April, 1850, the County Court of Nacogdoches summoned Ford to court to account for the guardianship and expenses. His expense report showed "Cash for expenses to Baltimore, $89.65" and that "said minor is at Baltimore finishing her education." She graduated from the Convent Academy in 1852, having entered in September, 1849.
Having finished her education, she returned to family in St. Mary's County and then in April, 1853 she returned to her Alma Mater, the Convent and she decided to become a daughter of St. Francis de Sales. She made application to Mother M. Paulina Millard, her aunt and sister of her father, and was accepted and entered the Convent of the Visitation, April, 1853. On the 29th of August, 1854, she made her final vows, and became Sister Bernardine. She remained at the Baltimore Convent for the rest of her life, progressing through various levels of responsibility and management of Convent affairs.
Death came 25 March 1896: From the Convent book: "the frequent spells of illness, endured in the past few years, rendered our dear Mother unfitted for resistance in the last attack of pneumonia; she succumbed and departed this life in perfect resignation to God's holy will, fortified with the last sacrament and all the Rules of our Holy Mother, the Church. To the last, she showed herself a fervent, holy and edifying Religious. May she rest in peace!"
BURIAL: From the time of the founding of the Convent, deceased nuns were buried in vaults underneath the Convent and in 1896, that is where Sr. Bernardine was buried. In early 1910, the Convent was put up for sale and the last thing that a buyer of the property would want was a cellar full of the bodies of dead nuns. So, in May, 1910, the sisters buried at the Convent of the Visitation were removed from the underground vaults of the Convent and were moved to the Mount De Sales Cemetery and later to the New Cathedral Cemetery on Old Fredrick Road, Baltimore, Md. Sr. Bernardine Millard is in lot 485TT and her name appears on the monument as Sr. M. Bernardine Millard.
Data on MAFIM comes from two sources, 1) Nacogdoches court records pertaining to her guardianship application and 2) Brief life history written after her death and found in the Baltimore Visitation Convent book. She is also found in the U.S. census records of Baltimore in the Convent, first as a student, and later as a nun.
Mary Anna Francis Isabella Millard (MAFIM) was the first child of two of parents, Robert F. Millard and Mary H. Brown Millard, born in Washington, D.C. 28 August 1834. Upon taking the final vows of a nun on 29 Aug 1854, she became Sister Mary Bernardine Millard and is buried with the name of Sr. M. Bernardine Millard (from the nun's list.
MAFIM, at age 1, with mother and father moved from Washington, DC to the country of Mexico, the State of Texas, the town of Nacogdoches in early 1835, where her father became a citizen of Mexico. In mid 1835, a brother was born in Nacogdoches, who died in 1840. Mrs Mary Brown Millard died shortly thereafter in March, 1841.
Her father remarried 7 Dec 1843 to Massy W. Sparks and he died in Oct 1847 in the house he had built in Nacogdoches. This left MAFIM, a Catholic, living with a devout Baptist step-mother and two step-brothers (Sparks) and with a vested financial interest in her mother's and her father's estate, consisting of the lot and house, slaves, and other land grant property in Texas.
Her paternal, devout Catholic relatives, living in St. Mary's County, Md., were very concerned that if she remained in Texas that she would leave the Catholic faith and implored her to leave Texas and come to St. Mary's County. From the Convent Book: "At last, she bade adieu to her Texas home and friends, and arrived at her grandmother's in St. Mary's County, Md early in the summer of 1849. She soon became one of them: they were determined on her not leaving them and she finally gave up the idea of returning to her Western relatives - her two half brothers (Sparks) and one sister. NOTE: Actually, a half-sister, Mary Josephine Millard, born 1848, daughter of RFM and Massy.
Back to Nacogdoches and Court House records: In March, 1849, Philip U. Ford petitions the Nacogdoches County Court to appoint a guardian for the person and estate of MAFIM, who at that time was age 14 and actually was capable of choosing a guardian for herself. The court granted the request and shortly thereafter she left Nacogdoches County for St. Mary's County, Md. In April, 1850, the County Court of Nacogdoches summoned Ford to court to account for the guardianship and expenses. His expense report showed "Cash for expenses to Baltimore, $89.65" and that "said minor is at Baltimore finishing her education." She graduated from the Convent Academy in 1852, having entered in September, 1849.
Having finished her education, she returned to family in St. Mary's County and then in April, 1853 she returned to her Alma Mater, the Convent and she decided to become a daughter of St. Francis de Sales. She made application to Mother M. Paulina Millard, her aunt and sister of her father, and was accepted and entered the Convent of the Visitation, April, 1853. On the 29th of August, 1854, she made her final vows, and became Sister Bernardine. She remained at the Baltimore Convent for the rest of her life, progressing through various levels of responsibility and management of Convent affairs.
Death came 25 March 1896: From the Convent book: "the frequent spells of illness, endured in the past few years, rendered our dear Mother unfitted for resistance in the last attack of pneumonia; she succumbed and departed this life in perfect resignation to God's holy will, fortified with the last sacrament and all the Rules of our Holy Mother, the Church. To the last, she showed herself a fervent, holy and edifying Religious. May she rest in peace!"
BURIAL: From the time of the founding of the Convent, deceased nuns were buried in vaults underneath the Convent and in 1896, that is where Sr. Bernardine was buried. In early 1910, the Convent was put up for sale and the last thing that a buyer of the property would want was a cellar full of the bodies of dead nuns. So, in May, 1910, the sisters buried at the Convent of the Visitation were removed from the underground vaults of the Convent and were moved to the Mount De Sales Cemetery and later to the New Cathedral Cemetery on Old Fredrick Road, Baltimore, Md. Sr. Bernardine Millard is in lot 485TT and her name appears on the monument as Sr. M. Bernardine Millard.
Find A Grave notes for Sr. Mary Anna Francis Isabella "Bernardine" Millard dau of Robert F Millard and Mary H. Brown Millard.
Data on MAFIM comes from two sources, 1) Nacogdoches court records pertaining to her guardianship application and 2) Brief life history written after her death and found in the Baltimore Visitation Convent book. She is also found in the U.S. census records of Baltimore in the Convent, first as a student, and later as a nun.
Mary Anna Francis Isabella Millard (MAFIM) was the first child of two of parents, Robert F. Millard and Mary H. Brown Millard, born in Washington, D.C. 28 August 1834. Upon taking the final vows of a nun on 29 Aug 1854, she became Sister Mary Bernardine Millard and is buried with the name of Sr. M. Bernardine Millard (from the nun's list.
MAFIM, at age 1, with mother and father moved from Washington, DC to the country of Mexico, the State of Texas, the town of Nacogdoches in early 1835, where her father became a citizen of Mexico. In mid 1835, a brother was born in Nacogdoches, who died in 1840. Mrs Mary Brown Millard died shortly thereafter in March, 1841.
Her father remarried 7 Dec 1843 to Massy W. Sparks and he died in Oct 1847 in the house he had built in Nacogdoches. This left MAFIM, a Catholic, living with a devout Baptist step-mother and two step-brothers (Sparks) and with a vested financial interest in her mother's and her father's estate, consisting of the lot and house, slaves, and other land grant property in Texas.
Her paternal, devout Catholic relatives, living in St. Mary's County, Md., were very concerned that if she remained in Texas that she would leave the Catholic faith and implored her to leave Texas and come to St. Mary's County. From the Convent Book: "At last, she bade adieu to her Texas home and friends, and arrived at her grandmother's in St. Mary's County, Md early in the summer of 1849. She soon became one of them: they were determined on her not leaving them and she finally gave up the idea of returning to her Western relatives - her two half brothers (Sparks) and one sister. NOTE: Actually, a half-sister, Mary Josephine Millard, born 1848, daughter of RFM and Massy.
Back to Nacogdoches and Court House records: In March, 1849, Philip U. Ford petitions the Nacogdoches County Court to appoint a guardian for the person and estate of MAFIM, who at that time was age 14 and actually was capable of choosing a guardian for herself. The court granted the request and shortly thereafter she left Nacogdoches County for St. Mary's County, Md. In April, 1850, the County Court of Nacogdoches summoned Ford to court to account for the guardianship and expenses. His expense report showed "Cash for expenses to Baltimore, $89.65" and that "said minor is at Baltimore finishing her education." She graduated from the Convent Academy in 1852, having entered in September, 1849.
Having finished her education, she returned to family in St. Mary's County and then in April, 1853 she returned to her Alma Mater, the Convent and she decided to become a daughter of St. Francis de Sales. She made application to Mother M. Paulina Millard, her aunt and sister of her father, and was accepted and entered the Convent of the Visitation, April, 1853. On the 29th of August, 1854, she made her final vows, and became Sister Bernardine. She remained at the Baltimore Convent for the rest of her life, progressing through various levels of responsibility and management of Convent affairs.
Death came 25 March 1896: From the Convent book: "the frequent spells of illness, endured in the past few years, rendered our dear Mother unfitted for resistance in the last attack of pneumonia; she succumbed and departed this life in perfect resignation to God's holy will, fortified with the last sacrament and all the Rules of our Holy Mother, the Church. To the last, she showed herself a fervent, holy and edifying Religious. May she rest in peace!"
BURIAL: From the time of the founding of the Convent, deceased nuns were buried in vaults underneath the Convent and in 1896, that is where Sr. Bernardine was buried. In early 1910, the Convent was put up for sale and the last thing that a buyer of the property would want was a cellar full of the bodies of dead nuns. So, in May, 1910, the sisters buried at the Convent of the Visitation were removed from the underground vaults of the Convent and were moved to the Mount De Sales Cemetery and later to the New Cathedral Cemetery on Old Fredrick Road, Baltimore, Md. Sr. Bernardine Millard is in lot 485TT and her name appears on the monument as Sr. M. Bernardine Millard.
Data on MAFIM comes from two sources, 1) Nacogdoches court records pertaining to her guardianship application and 2) Brief life history written after her death and found in the Baltimore Visitation Convent book. She is also found in the U.S. census records of Baltimore in the Convent, first as a student, and later as a nun.
Mary Anna Francis Isabella Millard (MAFIM) was the first child of two of parents, Robert F. Millard and Mary H. Brown Millard, born in Washington, D.C. 28 August 1834. Upon taking the final vows of a nun on 29 Aug 1854, she became Sister Mary Bernardine Millard and is buried with the name of Sr. M. Bernardine Millard (from the nun's list.
MAFIM, at age 1, with mother and father moved from Washington, DC to the country of Mexico, the State of Texas, the town of Nacogdoches in early 1835, where her father became a citizen of Mexico. In mid 1835, a brother was born in Nacogdoches, who died in 1840. Mrs Mary Brown Millard died shortly thereafter in March, 1841.
Her father remarried 7 Dec 1843 to Massy W. Sparks and he died in Oct 1847 in the house he had built in Nacogdoches. This left MAFIM, a Catholic, living with a devout Baptist step-mother and two step-brothers (Sparks) and with a vested financial interest in her mother's and her father's estate, consisting of the lot and house, slaves, and other land grant property in Texas.
Her paternal, devout Catholic relatives, living in St. Mary's County, Md., were very concerned that if she remained in Texas that she would leave the Catholic faith and implored her to leave Texas and come to St. Mary's County. From the Convent Book: "At last, she bade adieu to her Texas home and friends, and arrived at her grandmother's in St. Mary's County, Md early in the summer of 1849. She soon became one of them: they were determined on her not leaving them and she finally gave up the idea of returning to her Western relatives - her two half brothers (Sparks) and one sister. NOTE: Actually, a half-sister, Mary Josephine Millard, born 1848, daughter of RFM and Massy.
Back to Nacogdoches and Court House records: In March, 1849, Philip U. Ford petitions the Nacogdoches County Court to appoint a guardian for the person and estate of MAFIM, who at that time was age 14 and actually was capable of choosing a guardian for herself. The court granted the request and shortly thereafter she left Nacogdoches County for St. Mary's County, Md. In April, 1850, the County Court of Nacogdoches summoned Ford to court to account for the guardianship and expenses. His expense report showed "Cash for expenses to Baltimore, $89.65" and that "said minor is at Baltimore finishing her education." She graduated from the Convent Academy in 1852, having entered in September, 1849.
Having finished her education, she returned to family in St. Mary's County and then in April, 1853 she returned to her Alma Mater, the Convent and she decided to become a daughter of St. Francis de Sales. She made application to Mother M. Paulina Millard, her aunt and sister of her father, and was accepted and entered the Convent of the Visitation, April, 1853. On the 29th of August, 1854, she made her final vows, and became Sister Bernardine. She remained at the Baltimore Convent for the rest of her life, progressing through various levels of responsibility and management of Convent affairs.
Death came 25 March 1896: From the Convent book: "the frequent spells of illness, endured in the past few years, rendered our dear Mother unfitted for resistance in the last attack of pneumonia; she succumbed and departed this life in perfect resignation to God's holy will, fortified with the last sacrament and all the Rules of our Holy Mother, the Church. To the last, she showed herself a fervent, holy and edifying Religious. May she rest in peace!"
BURIAL: From the time of the founding of the Convent, deceased nuns were buried in vaults underneath the Convent and in 1896, that is where Sr. Bernardine was buried. In early 1910, the Convent was put up for sale and the last thing that a buyer of the property would want was a cellar full of the bodies of dead nuns. So, in May, 1910, the sisters buried at the Convent of the Visitation were removed from the underground vaults of the Convent and were moved to the Mount De Sales Cemetery and later to the New Cathedral Cemetery on Old Fredrick Road, Baltimore, Md. Sr. Bernardine Millard is in lot 485TT and her name appears on the monument as Sr. M. Bernardine Millard.
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