Josiah Tignor MERRITT
1880 U.S. Census Grayson County,Texas
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He married Mary Katherine Peterson 1864 at of Coles, Illinois . Mary Katherine Peterson was born at of Oldham, Kentucky 30 Aug 1834 daughter of Samuel Jackson Peterson and Eliza Ann Caplinger .
They were the parents of 3
children:
James Wilson Merritt
born 13 Feb 1865.
Gerber B. Merritt
born Abt 1867.
Josiah S. Merritt
born Jan 1869.
Josiah Tignor Merritt died 24 Aug 1893 at Hunt, Texas .
Mary Katherine Peterson died 9 Nov 1918 at Denver, Adams, Colorado .