1895 Obituary of Annie Pleasant Merrimon, a native of Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 12/2004


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1895 Obituary of Annie Pleasant Merrimon, a native of Union Parish Louisiana
Farmerville "Gazette", issue of Wednesday, 13 March 1895, page 3
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    Mrs. Annie Merrimon, sister of Mr. B. F. Pleasants, deputy clerk of this parish, 
died on the 25th of last month at Orlando, Florida. She was born and reared in this 
parish, and was well and favorably known by many citizens of the parish, especially 
by those residing in and near Shiloh where she was reared and at which place she 
taught school for several years. She was not only a good teacher but a musician of 
rare attainments. We clip the following notice of her death from the Orange County 
(Florida) Reporter:

    At the Avenue Monday Mrs. Annie, wife of Judge James H. Merrimon, of Asheville, 
N. C., died of consumption, aged forty years. 

    She has been in feeble health several years, and about six weeks ago her husband 
brought her and a bright little baby, Nancy, aged two years, here in the hope that 
Mrs. Merrimon's heath would be benefitted [sic] by a sojourn in this climate. However, 
while en route, she and her baby came in contact with measles and she and her little 
daughter were taken with that malady several days after their arrival. Little Nancy 
soon recovered, and though Mrs. Merrimon's life was at one time despaired of, she so 
far recovered from the first effects of the measles as to enable her to walk across 
her room, it left her in such an enfeebled condition that frequently recurring periods 
of exhaustion led those about her to abandon hope of recovery, and her husband had 
prepared himself for the worst, having chartered a special car in which to take her 
home that she might died surrounded by her relatives. 

    Being as she was, an excellent woman of charitable disposition and christian 
character, she was prepared to die, while she had everything to live for. Her 
husband to whom she was married twelve years ago is one of the leading lawyers of 
North Carolina, and stood in the front rank of southern barristers. He was elected 
and served several terms upon the superior court bench and voluntarily retired from 
that exalted seat to return to his law practice which was far more remunerative. 
With such a husband, a bright little daughter, a palatial home, surrounded with 
all the conditions calculated to make life worth the living, her death seems 
particularly sad. 

    The broken hearted husband together with the motherless baby, left with the 
remains yesterday morning for Asheville, where the interment will take place.



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