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Almira Esmerilda "Rilda" Merrill (Hendricks), daughter of William Dorris and Almira (Davenport) Hendricks, born 26 Oct. 1866 in Richmond, UT. Her girlhood days were spent in Richmond. Being the oldest of fifteen children, naturally she shared considerably in the responsibilities of the home. She had an average education for those days. At eighteen years of age she married ALMA MERRILL, 19 Mar. 1885 in the Logan Temple. He was a son of Marriner Wood and Sarah Ann (Atkinson) Merrill and was born 9 Nov. 1861 in Richmond, Ut. He died 17 Jan. 1936 in Richmond where he was buried. Rilda, as she was commonly known, was the epitome of all that is good and noble. Being a mother of eleven children - four sons and seven daughters - meant a life of love and sacrifice, but she always found time to lend a helping hand to the sick and needy. She was an ardent Church member and Relief Society worker. To know her was to love her, because of her genuine goodness, kind and gentle nature, sympathetic understanding and sterling character. Because of these attributes and her belief that polygamy was a righteous principle, she gave her consent for her husband to take a second wife just sixteen months after her marriage, and went with them to the temple and witnessed their marriage. This wife was her sister, Rebecca, one of the Hendricks triplets. The two sisters reared their families together, serving each other and sacrificing for each other. Rilda died 26 Apr. 1907 at the age of forty, with her eleventh child, and was buried in the Richmond cemetery.
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The Life Summary of Almira Esmerilda "Rilda"
When Almira Esmerilda "Rilda" Merrill (Hendricks) was born on 28 October 1866, in Richmond, Cache County, Utah, United States, her father, William Dorris Hendricks, was 36 and her mother, Almira Davenport, was 19. She married Alma Merrill on 19 March 1885, in Logan, Cache County, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Lewiston, Cache County, Utah, United States in 1880 and Richmond Election Precinct, Cache County, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 26 April 1907, in Richmond, Cache County, Utah, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Richmond City Cemetery, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.

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