Husband: Benjamin Perry MERRELL
Birthdate: unknown
Birthplace: unknown
Death date: prob TX
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

Marriage date: 07 Sep 1854
Marriage place: Ellis Co., TX

Wife: Melvina HENRY BOYD
Birthdate: ca 1828
Birthplace: TN
Death date: aft 1860
Place of death: TX
Burial: unknown
Father: HENRY, ??
Mother: ROSS, ??

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: David Bolivar
Sex: M
Birthdate: ca 1855
Birthplace: TX
Death date: ca 1856
Place of death: TX
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: ,/a
Marriage place: n/a
Spouse's name: na

Child No. 2: Mary E.
Sex: F
Birthdate: ca 1857
Birthplace: TX
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: unknown

Child No. 3: Margaret R.
Sex: F
Birthdate: ca 1859
Birthplace: TX
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: unknown

Child No. 4: Wilson Alexander
Sex: M
Birthdate: 24 Nov 1860
Birthplace: TX
Death date: 30 Sep 1943
Place of death: Scurry Co., TX
Burial: Snyder Cemetery, Snyder, Scurry Co., TX
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: TX
Spouse's name: MANERVL. Susan
 
 
Documentation:
Benjamin Perry - no info.,
Melvina -
* 1850 Newton Co, MO federal census, Roll M432_408 pg 332A.
* Newton County, MO Wills pg. 53, named in grandfather John Ross's will.
* "Ellis County Texas Marriages 1850-1887" complied by Dorothy Murray for Hunting for Bears, Inc. pg 43.
* "Ellis County, Texas Marriage Records 1850-1878" complied by Weldon I Hudson pg 3.
* Johnson Co, TX federal census 1860 pg 470B & 471A Family # 472.
Mary E. -
* National Archives, 1860 Johnson Co., TX federal census, (pg 470B & 471A Family # 472).
Margaret E. -
* National Archives, 1860 Johnson Co., TX federal census, (pg 470B & 471A Family # 472).
Wilson Alexander -
* Birth & Death - Scurry County Cemetery Book, pg 63.