Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Octavia Wilson

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• • Grandmother of James Merrill — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Edward Alvah Wilson 
  • Mother:
  • Emily Grace   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Oct 1861 
  • Birth Location:
  • Round Hill Plantation, near Lexington, Holmes, Mississippi 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Jun 1933 
  • Death Location:
  • Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Charles Morton Merrill
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  • Child:

  Charles Edward Merrill (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Octavia Wilson

  • ¹ Federal Census, MS, Holmes County, 1870, Lexington, p. 57, Image 57 of 81.
  • ² Florida Deaths, 1877-1939, Death record for husband Charles Morton Merrill.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1959, Vol. 113, p. 155.
  • ⁴ North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976, Death certificate for 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), 21.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Charles E. Merrill", (accessed 02/12/2014).

James Merrill photo by Judith Moffett (CC BY 3.0)