Individual Details

Elizabeth Merritt

(1758 - 1857)

== Biography ==

Burial - Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky; Rose Cemetery
Find A Grave Memorial# 114473356Entered by Michelle Brooks.

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=== Acknowledgments ===
Thanks to [[Bairfield-1|Michelle Brooks]] for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Michelle and others.

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[[Category:Common Genome of Descendants of Francis Bird]]
== Biography ==: '''18 Jan 1835''' - William Rose writes his will: "to my loving wife Elizabeth Rose my land on the Clearfork and my Mare and Colt & all the cattle belonging to me...". The will was witnessed by Wimer, Jacob, and William Siler.[[Space:Early_Whitley_County%2C_Kentucky%2C_Records|''Whitley County Will Book 1'']], p56
: '''1835, 1836''' - Elizabeth Rose appears on the Whitley County tax lists. She is taxed for 130 acres on the Clear Fork of Cumberland River.[[Space:Early_Whitley_County%2C_Kentucky%2C_Records|''Whitley County Tax List Summary, 1819-1850'']]
: '''Sep 1843''' - Final pension payments are made to Elizabeth Rose.Ancestry.com, ''U.S., Revolutionary War Pensioners, 1801-1815, 1818-1872 for William Rose''
: '''Mar 27, 1857''' - In Whitley County, Kentucky, J. W. Siler files a claim stating that he is the administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Rose, in which he seeks a retroactive increase in the amount of pension that had been due Elizabeth prior to her death (date unstated).[http://revwarapps.org/w8554.pdf Transcription of Revolutionary War pension application W8554]

: Burial - Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky; Rose Cemetery

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=== Acknowledgments ===Thanks to [[Bairfield-1|Michelle Brooks]] for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Michelle and others.
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Events

Birth1758Granville, North Carolina
Birth1758Granville County, North Carolina
Death1857Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States
Death27 Mar 1857Whitley, Kentucky
Reference No6621698
Reference No6842711
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Families

FatherEphraim Merritt (1721 - 1760)
MotherAgnes Ragland (1735 - 1818)
SiblingCapt. Stephen Merritt (1747 - 1843)