Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Emily Grace

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• • Great-grandmother of James Merrill — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Nov 1838 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mississippi 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Sep 1908 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Odd Fellows Cemetery, Lexington, Holmes, Mississippi 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Alvah Wilson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1856 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Octavia Wilson (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Emily Grace

  • 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)