Unknown newspaperGALENA TOWNSHIP: Truman Merrill, who has been sick a long time with dropsy, died Sunday morning, March 25, 1888. Mr. Merrill was over 76 years old, and one of our kind hearted, honest old citizens, and will be missed by many in this township. His family has the sympathy of this community in their affliction, and the writer will always remember the many kindly greetings of "Uncle True," as he was familiarly called by those who knew him best.
Find A GaveMr. Merrill had almost reached his eighty-third year, having been born in Columbia County, New York, on July 26, 1842. Only his boyhood days were spent at his birthplace; In 1850 his father, T.J. Merrill, moved to Hatch's Mills, just over the line in Indiana. In 1853 Clark Merrill's mother died, and in 1859 his father married Mrs. Mary Wasson. Mrs. Wasson had one daughter, Mary Augusta, who greatly influenced the young man Clark Merrill. On March 18, 1866, Mary Wasson and Clark Merrill were married. Had Mr. Merrill been spared but a year longer, the sixtieth wedding anniversary would have been celebrated.
The wedding ceremony was held in Charlotte, Michigan, to which place Mr. Merrill's father had moved. And with her mother had gone Mary Wasson. The young couple returned to Hatch's Mills where for many years they lived on a farm.
In 1881 Mr. and Mrs. Merrill moved to Three Oaks where the firm of Clark and Finley was formed and engaged in the meat business. Somewhat later Amos Wasson bought out Mr. Finley. Mrs. Merrill's brother and Clark Merrill conducted the meat market until 1893 when the firm dissolved and the Merrills moved to New Buffalo, where Mr. Merrill ran a meat market. From 1893 to 1897 he was in business there, but in the latter year returned again to Three Oaks, where for several years Mr. Merrill worked in the meat market of Watson and Bremer and later for Mr. Alec Watson alone. But in 1908, Merrill entered the employee of the Warren Featherbone Company, where he worked up to two years ago.
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Foster cemetery, La Porte, county, IndianaMrs. Merrill was born Feb 3, 1848, in LaPorte, and came to the Hatches Mills community, south of Three Oaks, at the age of 11, with her mother. At the age of 18 she married Clark Merrill, son of her mother's second husband, Truman Merrill. Mr. Merrill, an early day merchant here, died 14 years ago.
Mrs. Merrill was raised a Quaker and throughout her life spoke the plain language, which her friends enjoyed hearing.A nephew, Homer Finley, who resides in Portland, Ore., is her only surviving relative. A nurse, Mrs. Linda Perring, has resided with her for some time. She leaves also a host of friends. Old and young folk alike considered Mrs. Merrill one of their best friends, and until her last illness she took a keen delight in making something or doing for others.
Lemuel Fuller served in Company E. of 74th Regiment, Prisoner at Andersonville.