When Mary Athalinda Merritt was born on 7 November 1821, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Josiah Merritt, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth M Atkinson, was 27. She married Lieutenant John Franklin Harrison on 30 December 1858, in Forsyth, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and Coal Mountain, Forsyth, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 20 October 1899, at the age of 77, and was buried in Cumming City Cemetery, Cumming, Forsyth, Georgia, United States.
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English: variant of Merriott , Marriott , or Marritt. The last of these is most often a variant of Merriott or Marriott , but possibly in some instances from Middle English Marret or Merret, a syncopated form of Margaret, Mergeret.
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