| HUSBAND | WIFE |
| Husband: Albert Forest MERRILL Birth Date: Abt 1836 Birth Place: Cramahe, Northumberland Co., Ontario Death date: 11 Mar 1880/1 Death Place: Long Rapids, Alpena Co., MI Burial Place: Alpena Co., MI Father: Samuel MERRILL Mother: Phoebe LOTHROP |
Wife: Mary THOMPSON Birth Date: 27 Dec 1842 Birth Place: England Death date: 12 Dec 1917 Death Place: Long Rapids, Alpena Co., MI Burial Place: Evergreen Cemetery, Alpena, Alpena, MI Father: Unknown, b. Scotland Mother: Unknown, b. Scotland |
| Marriage date: 6 Apr 1876 | Marriage place: Alpena Co., MI |
| Child No. 1: William Albert MERRILL Sex: M Birth Date: 12 Jun 1876 Birth Place: Alpena Co., MI Death date: Aug 1976 Death Place: Jackson Co., MO Burial Place: Mt. Washington Cemetery, Jackson Co., MO Marriage date: 1 Sep 1920 Marriage place: Probably Carthage, Jasper Co., MO Spouse's name: Eliza Antoinette FRANCIS |
Child No. 2: John MERRILL Sex: M Birth Date: May 1880 Birth Place: Probably Alpena Co., MI Death date: Unknown Death Place: Unknown Burial Place: Unknown Marriage date: Unknown Marriage place: Unknown Spouse's name: Unknown |
| Documentation: Four children by other marriage(s), first with Eliza UNKNOWN or Ellen OLIVER: Ida O. MERRILL, Abt May 1868-22 Aug 1869; second through fourth with Ellen OLIVER: Minnie MERRILL, 18 Apr 1871-?, John MERRILL 18 Apr 1871-bef. 1880, Frank Forrest MERRILL, 12 Dec 1874-?. Widow Mary THOMPSON MERRILL m. Martin LEROY 7 Mar 1883; they had three children: Alexander LEROY, 2 Apr or Aug 1884-May 1962, m. Florence A. Bunker; Effy Alice LEROY May 1885-? m. Frank MERCY; Charlotte (Lottie) E. LEROY, 21 May 1887-13 Feb 1969, m. Henry George Gilbertson. Information from family correspondence and inquiries; 1852 Canadian census; 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 censuses, Dibean marriage indices; Evergreen (Alpena, MI) Cemetery records; GENDIS; Grace Lutheran Church (Alpena, MI) records; personal email correspondence; 1882-1892 Alpena City and Long Rapids directories; www.freebmd.org.uk; Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming by Walter Romig; Centennial History of Alpena County, Michigan: Giving Sketch of ... by David Dykins Oliver; Complete History of Alpena County, 1876 author unknown; Long Rapids & Vicinity, compiled by Ruth Ann Cochrane; Jolene Kelly Pillars; hjmerril@eatel.net (howard merrill); Steve@Merrill.org; 1870 and 1880 Alpena County, Michigan Mortality Schedules; others upon request |