Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Merritt, Southwick 1875
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Ionia Standard, 22 Apr 1875

Southwick Merritt was born March 11, 1827, in Leroy, Jefferson county, N. Y. 
Died in Ionia, Mich., April 9, 1875.

Southwick Merritt moved to Ionia in the spring of 1847, was married to Ellen
Nichols January 19, 1848.  From the first he was actively employed as a house
builder or in the employ of R. & N. Dye until 1855 when he formed a
co-partnership with S. S. Nichols in the furniture business which expired in
1859.  He continued this business until 1868 when he formed co-partnership with
Geo. H. Allured which continued to the time of his death.  He was an active life
member of the Ionia County Agricultural Society and added much to the interest
of its fairs.  He was always regarded as a good citizen, a kind father and an
affectionate husband and a firm friend.  As a business man he was noted for
integrity and was often pointed to as a man whose moral life was worthy of being
emulated.  He never was connected with any religious denomination while he lived
and yet we feel confident that he now rests sweetly in Paradise.  We do not base
this confidence on his morality or on his belief in a general atonement; but
eight months before his death he sought and found the Savior as his personal
Savior, and obtained an assurance of blissful immortality.

The disease which terminated his earthly existence was consumption.  His
sickness was long and about six months of the time was spent in California, but
the insidious disease which marked him as its victim was not to be baffled by
change of climate and he returned to his home without an improvement in his
health, he suffered much but was patient in his sickness, and peaceful in his
death.  He leaves a wife and four children and a large circle of relatives to
mourn his loss, but their loss is his gain.


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