The following information was gleaned from several sources, not the least of which was my grandmother Ellen’s writings and family research, but additional information was provided through Ancestry.com. The featured image is of my grandfather Elvis and his brothers.
John Marriott (1500-1555) Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
m. Susan Action (1500-)
John Marriot (1527-1592) Haverfordwest, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
m. Ann Cheney (1525-1583)
Thomas Wilson Marriott (1559-1640) Long Clawson, Melton Borough, Leicestershire, England
m. Mary Guye (1560-1613)
Robert Marriott (1599-1664) Long Clawson, Lecister, England
m. Sense Hickling (1603-1670)
William Marriatt (1599-1664) Long Clawson, Leicestershire, England
m. Susannah Swann (1640-1660)
Charles Meritt (1652-1718) Surry, Surry, Virginia
m. Elinor Evans (1658-1783) 1680
Nathaniel Meritt (1700-1735) Granville, North Carolina
m. Mary Marie Moore (1707-1765)
Ephrim Meritt (1721-1760) Bertie, North Carolina
m. Agnes Ragland (1735-1818) 1754
Capt. Stephen Meritt (1750-1843) North Carolina
[The Meritt] family has been traced as Presbyterian people who entered the U.S. when two brothers came just before the Revolutionary war. Stephen Meritt settled in Granville, North Carolina. His brother settled in Virginia. Stephen Meritt was a captain of Colonial troops during the entire Revolutionary War struggle, and fought in many battles, from 1775-1778.
The brothers, who were sons of Ephrim Meritt, came from Wales of the British lsles. Stephen Meritt went westward from North Carolina, through the Cumberland cap of the Appalachian mountains into Tennessee, then across Kentucky, and entered into Illinois on March 16, 1816.
Ephrim Meritt II. (1776-1844), son of Stephen Meritt
born – 1776 in Granville, North Carolina
married – Elizabeth Micklejohn
died – August, 1844, buried – Burnt Prairie, lllinois
George Meritt (1799-1884)- son of Ephrim Meritt
born – January 30, 1799 at Pendleton, SC.
married – February 12,1822 to Elizabeth Files (d. 1864, buried at Burnt Prairie, Ill)
married – Wilmouth (1807-1875, buried at Burnt Prairie, Ill)
died – March 11, 1884 (buried at Burnt Prairie, Ill.)
Lafayette Meritt (1833-1916) – son of George Meritt
born – December29, 1833
married _____________ Sarah Shaw (1835-1897, buried at Burnt Prairie, Ill.)
died – _______________1916, lllinois
Benjamin Marshall Meritt (1863-1939) – son of Lafayette Meritt
born – January 13, 1863, White County, lllinois
married – (first) to _______________ Files, who died
married – Mary Sophia Taylor, May 5, 1895
Benjamin Meritt – farmer
died – October 4, 1939, buried – Auburn, Nebraska
This is the birth order of the children of Benjamin Marshall Meritt and Mary Sophia Taylor:
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Harry, from a previous marriage, born March 25, 1890
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James Marshall, born February 12,1896
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Orley Nobel, born August 20, 1897
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Goldie Pearl, born July 2, 1899
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Sarah Sophia, born March 2, 1901
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Steven Andrew, born September 25,1902, died as an infant
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Jessie Lester, born July 1, 1904
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Raymond Howard, born March 22,1906
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Rosie, born March 24, 1908, died as an infant
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Sylvia Edda, born March 1, 1909
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Elvis, born November 27, 1910
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Dela Violet, born April 5, 1913
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Reatha, born September 27, 1914
Elvis Meritt (1910-1961) son of Benjamin Marshall Meritt
born – November 27, 1910, on a farm near Medford, Oklahoma
married – July 25, 1935, to Barbara Ellen Hallenbeck
died – October 18, 1961, in Peru, Nebraska, buried – Peru, Nebraska
Marshall Elvis Meritt (1948-) son of Elvis Meritt
born – January 19, 1948 Peru Nebraska
married – Cheryl Lyn Hudson July 24, 1971 (b. Ellettsville, Indiana) Auburn, Nebraska
born at Auburn, Nebraska
Siblings: Barbara Pearl – Elva Marlene – Linda Elaine – Rena Sue
Aryn Marshall Meritt (1972-) son of Marshall Meritt
born – August 2, 1972 [Council Bluffs, Iowa]
married – April 15, 1995 to Frances Anna Dunn at Cortland, Indiana
Siblings: James Benjamin
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