When Merrill was born on 22 April 1940, in Gans, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Alvie Harrison Merrill, was 50 and his mother, Alta Carrie House, was 42. He died on 22 April 1940, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Gans Cemetery, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States.
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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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