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 he
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