Individual Details

BIOGRAPHY: Jane Vaughn Merrill was born in Holmes County, Ohio, May 5th, 1829, and in 1835 moved with her parents, Alexander and Rebecca Vaughn, and younger sister, Mary, to Fulton County Ohio, then Lenawee Co., Mich., where the remainder of her life was passed and the greater portion on the farm, which her father entered at Monroe, Mich. In 1834, on the 15th day of October, 1848, she was united in marriage to Osias Merrill. In 1850 she, with her husband, moved to and resided on a 40 acre farm in Amboy Township one year, and in 1852 to a heavy timbered 80 acres in Fulton Township, where she resided four years, and in many ways assisted in converting it into a comfortable home. But her attachment to the old home farm, where she had spent her youthful hours in witnessing an entire new country transformed from a rude wilderness to a fair state of cultivation, induced her husband to purchase a portion of it, which has been ever since her permanent home. Although she resided at Ottokee three years from 1887 to 1870, and at Wauseon two years, form 1889 to 1891, on the morning of December 28th, 1893, at the age of 64 years, 7 months, and 25 days, she passed peacefully away. She leaved a husband, Osias Merrill, three sons and one daughter; Horace A. Merrill, of Toledo, Ohio; James E. Merrill,, Frank C. Merrill, and Minnie Merrill Biddle , of Fulton Co. Ohio. Also three brothers and two sisters, James C. Vaughn, Edward and Caleb Vaughn, of Fulton Co.; Mrs. Mary Springer, of Wauseon, Ohio and Mrs. Bell Bailey of Branch Co. Mich. Also fifteen grandchildren.
She was a faithful wife, a devoted mother, a kind neighbor, and a loyal friend. For months and years she bore uncomplainingly the suffering caused by the vitality of that dread disease cancer, and calmly approached her journey’s end, like one that draws the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams, and on that say 30th day of December, was, with the assistance of kind neighbors and sorrowing friends, laid to her final rest, by the side of her parents, who had long since preceded her, in the little cemetery donated by her Father being a portion of the land he entered in 1834.


JANE (VAUGHN) MERRILL
History of the Birth, Life, and Death of one of the Fulton Co., Pioneers
Jane Vaughn Merrill was born in Holmes County, Ohio May 5th 1829 and in 1835 moved with her parents, Alexander and Rebecca Vaughn, and younger sister, Mary, to Fulton County, Ohio, then Lenawee Co., Michigan, where the remainder of her life was passed and the greater portion on the farm, which her father entered at Monroe, Michigan in 1834. In the 15th day of October1848 she was united in marriage to Osias Merrill. In 1850 she, with her husband, moved to and resided on a 40 acre farm in Amboy Township one year, and in 1852 to a heavy timbered 80 acres in Fulton Township, where she resided four years and in many ways assisted in converting it into a comfortable home. But her attachment to the old home farm, where she had spent her youthful hours in witnessing an entire new country transformed, form from a rude wilderness to a fair state of cultivation, induced her husband to purchase a portion of it, which has been ever since been her permanent home, although she resided at Ottokee three years from 1867 to 1870 and at Wauseon two years, from 1889 to 1891. On the morning of December 28th, 1893, at the age of 64 years, 7 months, and 23 days, she passed peacefully away. She leaves a husband, Osias Merrill, three sons and one daughter; Horace A. Merrill, of Toledo, Ohio; James E. Merrill, Frank C Merrill, and Minnie Merrill Biddle, of Fulton Co., Ohio. Also three brothers and two sisters, James C. Vaughn, Edward and Caleb Vaughn, of Fulton County; Mrs. Mary Springer, of Wauseon, Ohio, and Mrs. Bell Bailey of Branch Co., Michigan, also fifteen grandchildren.
By Osias Merrill (from Pioneer Society papers)

Birth	29 May 1829	, Holmes Co., Ohio
Birth	29 May 1829	Holmes, Ohio, United States
Marriage	15 Oct 1848	Lucas, Ohio, United States - Ozias Merrill
Death	1893
Ancestral File Number		1QW7-4SX
Burial		Ai Union Cemetery, Fulton Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio
Reference No		V11
Burial		Ai Union Cemetery, Fulton Township, Fulton County, Ohio

Spouse	Ozias Merrill (1827 - 1901)
Child	Horace Adelbert Merrill (1851 - 1919)
Child	James Eugene "Gene" Merrill (1857 - 1923)
Child	Frank C. Merrill (1859 - 1928)
Child	Minnie M. (or Minnie Bell) Merrill (1865 - 1937)

Father	Alexander Vaughan (1797 - 1847)
Mother	Rebecca Jones (1810 - 1862)
Sibling	Vaughan (1827 - )
Sibling	Mary Vaughan (1832 - )
Sibling	James C. Vaughan (1835 - 1907)
Sibling	Vaughan (1836 - )
Sibling	Edward Vaughan (1838 - 1911)
Sibling	Bell Vaughan (1840 - )
Sibling	Caleb J. Vaughan (1842 - 1902)
Sibling	Vaughan (1827 - )