Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Edward Alvah Wilson

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• • Great-grandfather of James Merrill — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Alvah Wilson 
  • Mother:
  • Sophronia Alden   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Dec 1829 
  • Birth Location:
  • Georgia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Dec 1875 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Odd Fellows Cemetery, Lexington, Holmes, Mississippi 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Emily Grace
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1856 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Octavia Wilson (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Edward Alvah Wilson

  • ¹ Federal Census, MS, Holmes County, 1870, Lexington, p. 57, Image 57 of 81.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/03/2021).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1959, Vol. 113, p. 155.
  • ⁴ North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976, Death certificate for daughter Octavia Merrill.
  • ⁵ Perkins, Edwin J., From Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (1999), 22-23.

James Merrill photo by Judith Moffett (CC BY 3.0)