Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Merriett, Edward W./Edwin W. 1916
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, Monday, June 12, 1916

Long Time Resident and Business Man of Ionia Crosses the Portals of Death.

After four days of hopelessness and suffering as the culmination of six years of
illness, Edward Merriett died Sunday morning at 9:00 o’clock, at the residence
325 ˝ West Main St.  Mr. Merriett was seventy years old last December, but was
actively engaged in business here up to last Wednesday, when he was forced to
give up the office work and remain at home.  His illness grew out of an optical
operation performed six years ago, his health having been failing ever since
that time.  During the last several months the alteration in his strength has
been noticeable.

The funeral will be held at the residence at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, the services
being conducted by Rev. C.E. Hoag, assisted by other pastors of the city.

Mr. Merriett is survived by his wife and three children, one daughter, Marian,
being deceased.  Mrs. S.L. Chapman of Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. Fred L. Fischer of this
city and Miles Merriett of Long Lake are now living.  There are also two sisters
and two brothers living: Mrs. Eva J. Cosman of Salida, Col., Mrs. Captain Ormsby
of Portland, Ore., A.S. Merriett of Kansas City and E.T. Merriett of this city.

Mr. Merriett was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Merriett, and was born in
Vermont.  He was about sixteen years old when the family came to Michigan.  The
home for a time in Ypsilanti, where he took college work, afterward attending a
commercial school in Detroit.  He was in the army during the Civil war but saw
only a short period of service, being wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness
about six months after enlisting.  He was in Harper hospital in Detroit for two
and one-half years as a consequence of the wound.

November 25, 1875, he married Almyra VanDoren of Palo, the ceremony being
performed there.  It was thirty-one years ago that they moved to this city,
where their children were brought up and where Mr. Merriett was associated for
twenty years with the Webber Hardware Company.  For more than ten years before
his death he was in the insurance business, Mrs. Merriett being associated with
him in the E.W. Merriett & Co. offices.

Mrs. Chapman and son arrived from Toledo last week, and Mr. Chapman is expected
tonight.  Mr. Merriett’s brother, A.S. Merriett, is expected from Kansas City. 
Mrs. Merriett expects relatives of her own also, including Mr. and Mrs. Frank
VanDoren of Flint, Mr. and Mrs. A.H. -Doren of Flint, Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Van - of
the birde is at Rapid City.  {NOTE: This last sentence is typed as it appeared
in the obituary.}

[Transcriber Note:  The obituary gave the name as Edward W.; the death
certificate at Seeking Michigan and the Highland Park cemetery records list his
name as Edwin Wyatt.]


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