Redacted and annotated excerpt from the Genealogical Greider-Kreider Family
She "stands in a class be herself, on record as being the first woman physician in the state of Pennsylvania. She began as a midwife but her practice extended until it became general and was very large. Petite and dainty, she was a great horsewoman, alays preferring a pacer for her riding horse. On horseback she visited her patients who were spread over a wide area.
Her interest in her profession is said to have been motivated almost entirely by her innate love for ministering to the sick and caring for the poor and helpless. When she was called upon, no winter storm could prevent her from going forth, no dark night on a lonely forest road dismayed her, and no obstacle stood in the way of the performance of her duty.
A number of interesting incidents have been told by people who remembered very well when she was their family physician.
On one occasion when she was called to York County on a serious case. (There were times when the men physicians, at the end of their resources, would say "Send for Dr. Muller to consult." The York county family being very poor could not pay in
money so they gave the doctor a fawn for the children. She fastened it across her horse and carried it home where it was a pet for the children until it was full grown, and for years later. One day it was in the fields and disappeared. It was thought either a hunter, mistaking it for a wild deer, had shot it, or a wild animal had gotten it.
Another family tradition is that her husband objected to her career. upon one occasion when she returned at the end of a
snowy, wintry day, her husband said with some spirit, "Another wild goose chase." But she drew from her pocket a roll of bills. Tradition has it that she, wise little lady, had placed the bills in her pocket before leaving that morning.
In 1894, Dr. Benjamin F. Miller met an aged man, Mr. Warfel, then 89 years old, who remembered distinctly of having been vaccinated by her. Since it was not until about 1800 that Dr. Jenner's discovery of vaccine was accepted by any physicians in England even, it shows Dr. Muller to have been an up-to-date, progressive little lady. The practice of vaccination had met with violent
opposition at first, even in London.
Dr Muller prcaticed until the time of her death. In the last fifteen years of her life she was attending physician, according to her own journal, at the birth of 1667 children. Numbers of times, in Trinity Church, Lancaster, she stood as god-mother when baby girls were given her name. She was greatly beloved by her patients.
In the Historical Association Library of Pennsylvania may be found the record f her death and burial. She died of Pleurisy, Nov. 22, 1815, and the funeral was conducted Nov. 24, by the Rev. C.L.F.Endress, pastor of Trinity church and afterward the first president of the School Board of Lancaster when the Public School Law first went into effect."
Dr. Muller was so popular and so well known that no church in the community was large enough for the funeral service, hence it was held in a grove, the estinated attendance being 2000 people, according to Mrs. Betsey Ketterling Snyder of Washington, Iowa who was present."
Susanna was buried in the old Thomas durying ground, better known as Old Byerland Cemetery.