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- Birth: May 14, 1895
Rabbit Hash
Boone County
Kentucky, USA
Death: Feb. 17, 1960
Memphis
Shelby County
Tennessee, USA
B.J. Merrick, 64, Pemiscot county resident for many years, died at St. Joseph Hospital in Memphis last Wednesday, February 17, where he had undergone surgery a few days earlier and few days earlier, the following Friday afternoon at the H.S. Smith Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. Floyd V. Brower officiated and burial was in Little Prairie cemetery.
Mr. Merrick was born in a small community known as Rabbit Hash in Kentucky on May 14, 1895, the son of Elijah and Mary Josephine Merrick, and the family moved to Pemiscot county when he was 15 years old.
He enlisted in the Army on July 25, 1918 during World War I, and served until January 24, 1919, when he received his discharge at Camp Funston, Kas.. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
In Paragould, Arkansas, on August ?, 1917, he was married to Miss Clara Austin and for several years past Mr. and Mrs. Merrick have operated a grocery and filling station at the "Wye" on Highway 61 west of this city.
Survivors other than his wife include two sons, B.J. Merrick Jr. of Wausau, Wis. and Reginald Merrick of Sikeston; a daughter, Mrs. Marvin Martin of Livermore, Calif.; three brothers, Stanley Merrick, Greenfield, Ia., Paul, Caruthersville and Ben Merrick, Arniston, Missouri.
Also three sisters survive; Mrs. Lelia Crecelius, East Prairie, Missouri, Mrs. Carl Austin, St. Louis, and Mrs. Noel Pike, Charleston, Missouri; also four grandchildren.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, February 26, 1960
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