MRS. I.L. MERRILL
Arizona Republican Newspaper
January 12, 1904

The many friends of  I.L. Merrill, late superintendent of 
the Calumet and Arizona properties in the Warren District 
will be grieved to hear of the death of Mrs. I.L. Merrill, 
at her home in Los Angeles, say the Bisbee Review.  The 
grim visitor came without a moments warning and struck 
down the life which it seemed was just entering into the 
full fruition of its accomplishment.  Mr. Merrill had 
just completed a very handsome residence in Los Angeles 
and was the soul of delight at the near approach of what 
his esteemed wife had so ardently desired, a home of 
rest and peace and quiet, after years of activity upon 
the part of her husband, whose active life is so well 
known to the people of Bisbee.  Just before Christmas 
Mr. Merrill left Bisbee to join his family in Los Angeles.  
Mrs. Merrill died of heart failure and it seems all the 
sadder that after years devotedly spent with her energetic 
husband in the rougher experiences of mining camps, and 
then removing amidst scenes of surroundings more refined, 
she should be cut off in a moment, right at the threshold 
of her desires. Mrs. Merrill leaves her husband and two 
children, one a boy about twelve and a little girl about 
seven  years of age.