When Samuel Adam Merrill was born on 2 April 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Bemis Merrill, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Gardner Runyan, was 27. He married Lenora Triphena Noble on 21 December 1863, in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 1 January 1922, in Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Smithfield City Cemetery, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States.
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On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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