Ellen survived her husband by many years. When she died, she had been living with a daughter. 72 She was buried in Seneca. 73 Louis Wesley Merriman, child number five, was born in March 1857 and died 30 January 1861. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. 74 Fannie Merriman, the youngest, was born 4 December 1863 in Greenwood and died 31 October 1948 in Union. 75 She grew up in Greenwood and moved with her parents to Seneca. 76 She married Thomas C. Duncan at the family home. His father, Rev. Dr. W.W. Duncan, performed the ceremony. 77 72 1930 U.S. census, Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, Los Angeles, Assembly District 58, Block 665, p. 197 (stamped), enumeration district (ED) 19-227, dwelling 5, family 6, Eleanor Jordan in Gertrude Hurley household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 2 September 2020); FHL microfilm 2339876. Also, “Funeral Rites for Mrs. Jordan Will Be Today,” p. 26, col. 5. 73 Ancestry, Find A Grave , database with images (http://www.findagrave.com : 4 September 2020), memorial 123605338, Eleanor Brownlee Merriman Jordan, Mountain View Cemetery, Seneca, Oconee County, South Carolina; gravestone photographs by Frank Strickland. 74 Greenwood Co., S.C. Cemetery Records , 2:61. 75 “South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1965,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99GZ- ZHK3?cc=1417492&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AFG1X-X4Z : 4 September 2020), Union, Union, >Death certificates 1948 no 13899>image 1581 of 2126; South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia. The informant misidentified Fannie’s parents, stating her father was Lewis Clinkscales and her mother’s maiden name was Louisa Merriman. Thus, Find A Grave entries for Fannie and Thomas identified Fannie as Fannie Merriman Clinkscales Duncan not Fannie (Merriman) Duncan. 76 1870 U.S. census, Abbeville County, South Carolina, population schedule, Greenwood Township, p. 223 (stamped), dwelling 501, family 501, Fannie H. Merriman in L.D. Merriman household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 30 August 2020), FHL microfilm 552980. Also, 1880 U.S. census, Abbeville County, South Carolina, population schedule, Greenwood Township, p. 58 (penned), enumeration district (ED) 13, dwelling 148, family 150, Fanny [Fannie] Merriman in Louis D. Merriman household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 30 August 2020), citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1217. Also, “Death of Mr. L.D. Merriman,” The Abbeville (South Carolina) Messenger , 2 September 1885, online archives, (https://www.newspapers.com : 26 July 2020), p. 3, col. 1. Also, “Greenwood News,” The Abbeville (South Carolina) Press and Banner , 2 September 1885, online archives, (https://www.newspapers.com : 26 July 2020), last 2 items, p. 3, col. 2. 77 “At the Bridal Altar,” p. 3, col. 2.
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