When George Marion Merritt was born on 1 July 1849, in Fox River Township, Davis, Iowa, United States, his father, George Merritt, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Scott, was 34. He married Mary Catherine Reals on 6 July 1873, in Taylor, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Fremont Township, Page, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Election Precinct 43 Farmington, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1910. He died on 18 April 1916, in Rockford, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Valparaiso Cemetery, Valparaiso, Saunders, Nebraska, United States.
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On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Earliest Known Burial: 1858
Nebraska is the 37th state.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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