Margaret Davison McQuillan, about 49 years old, was a white woman whose life ended in the shadow of a Sullivan County farm, at a moment when the Catskills were still a patchwork of small communities where everyone noticed when something felt off. In late August 1893, she and Sarah McQuillan�described in accounts as her close family member�vanished into the orbit of Lizzie Halliday, a woman who had drifted through aliases and trouble, and who had once been taken in by the McQuillans during her ea
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