A News Clipping
From Phebe CAMPBELL Hoyt's
Scrapbook,
Undated, Prob. Sept. 1896
Transcribed by Phebe's great-grandson, Wm. Thompson, Apr. 14,
2012
Sad Death in Farmington.
Myra, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Merritt of Farmington, died
Monday morning, Sept. 7, of typhoid fever, aged about 20 years. The funeral
services were held at the home in Farmington, Wednesday, September 9, at
12:30 o'clock, Rev. Mulford, of Tioga officiating.
Three weeks previous, at the home and at the same hour
on which her funeral was appointed, she was united in marriage to Mr.
Wm. Close, of Farmington, by Rev. Mr. Chamberlain. This fact seemed to
make the occasion a doubly sad one and the many friends who were present at
the funeral obsequies extend very deep sympathies to the bereaved husband,
father and mother.
[Note: Myra Merritt
was a daughter of Joseph Harvey Merritt, aka Harvey Joseph Merritt, (not to
be confused with "our" Harvey Grant Merritt). J. Harvey Merritt was a son
of Hiram J. Merrit, who was a brother of the William Merritt who married
Eliza Hazlett. Myra is in our tree because of William E. Close.
William, by his subsequent marriage to Shirley A. Brown, was the father of
Merritt Brown Close, who married Campbell Cousin
Louise E. Rowley -- a daughter of Goldie Hazlett. Many of our readers
have met Louise' daughters, Alice CLOSE Doan and Mary Ann CLOSE
Timm.---wbt]
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