Brief Life History of Marriner Wood
When Marriner Wood Merrill Jr. was born on 19 January 1857, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Marriner Wood Merrill, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Ann Atkinson, was 22. He married Martha Mary Cardon on 11 April 1878, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 30 December 1899, in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Richmond City Cemetery, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- M W Merrell, "United States Census, 1880"
- Marriner W Merrill, "BillionGraves Index"
- Merianar W Merrill in entry for Russel E Merrill and Hazel Oline Payne, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1858
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Mary Ellen Allsop BIRTH 22 Feb 1856 DEATH 15 Oct 1858 (aged 2) BURIAL Richmond City Cemetery Richmond, Cache County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 59246365
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Excerpt from "Utah Pioneer and Apostle, Marriner W. Merrill and His Family"
Excerpt, starting on pg 384: "Marriner Wood Merrill Jr, the oldest son of Marriner Wood Merrill and Sarah Ann Atkinson Merrill, was born at Bountiful, Utah, and later was a student at the Brigham You …
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