Forrest Lee "Ford" Mason & Sarah (Holden) Mason with great-granddaughter, Jerri // River Falls, Wisconsin
Wordless Wednesday: Great-Grandparents
Category: Merrill Family Tree
Wordless Wednesday: Teaching First Aid
Bessie Sophie (Johnson) Smith
Merrill’s Barn Dance
When I asked my grandfather how his parents met, he told me it was at a barn dance--but he couldn't remember where or when or how or why. I've always kept that barn dance in the back of my mind; I know my parents met at my dad's twenty-first birthday party, my dad's parents were [...]
Remembering PFC Manley J. Merrill
Manley John Merrill was born on September 7, 1920 in Fredonia, New York to Jenness Nelson Merrill and Lola Mary Mau, and he had five siblings: Jenness (b. 1916), Laura (b. 1919), Leon (b. 1922), Eleanor (b. 1924) and Auleen (b. 1925). He married Nellie Martha Kniese--the daughter of Cornelius Jacobus Kniese and Cornelia Jane [...]
Anyone Up for a Challenge?
Ok, this one is making me angry. I'll set the scene: I was searching for an ancestor to write about for Amy Johnson Crow's "Namesake" prompt this month, and I eventually decided that it had to be someone on the Merrill side of my family tree. I mean, there's my great-great-grandmother, Celestia Melvina, who was [...]
