When Marriner Wood Merrill was born on 25 September 1832, in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Nathan Alexander Merrill, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Ann Reynolds, was 40. He married Sarah Ann Atkinson on 10 November 1853, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1853 and lived in Beaverhead, Montana, United States in 1880. He died on 6 February 1906, in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Richmond City Cemetery, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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
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.
Possible Related NamesPresident Marriner W. Merrill, the first president of Logan Temple, was a very spiritual man and took good care of affairs at the temple. He was chosen president because a voice spoke to John Tayl …
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