Two Amos Merrills, buried in Windham, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday

These tombstones were photographed at the Cemetery on the Plain, Windham, New Hampshire.

                 AMOS MERRILL                                                MEHITABLE
                         DIED                                                                wife of
                May 22, 1822                                                         AMOS MERRILL
                        AEt. 82                                                                  DIED
                       LYDIA                                                            Oct. 21, 1823
                      his wife                                                                   AEt. 47.
                        DIED
                  May 10, 1820
                        AEt. 78.

Amos Merrill, Sr., son of Peter Merrill and Mehitable Kelly, was born 6 December 1739 in Methuen, Massachusetts, and died 22 May 1822 in Windham, New Hampshire.  His wife was Lydia Giles.  They had four children:  Giles, Ruth, Lydia and Amos Enos Merrill.

Amos Enos Merrill was born 26 Jan 1778 in Windham, and died 3 March 1860 in Windham.  His wife was Mehitable Smith, daughter of Deacon Page Smith and Lydia Marsh Haseltine, married on 25 December in Hudson, New Hampshire.  They had eight children born in Windham:  Giles, Noah, Daniel, Lydia, Hannah, Rufina, Lavinia and Amos (1822).

For more information see the compiled genealogy book: A Merrill Memorial:  An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, An Early Settler of Newbury (page 305).

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Two Amos Merrills, buried in Windham, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 24, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/03/two-amos-merrills-buried-in-windham-new.html: accessed [access date]).