Civil War veteran
Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy
The son of James and Mary Badger (Graves) Merrill, he married Elizabeth Myers, born in 1836 at Rockland, ME, at Boston in 1856.
John served in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War as a quarter gunner aboard the Steamer USS Wateree which was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in January 1864 and was assigned to the Pacific Squadron. Navy records indicated John was admitted to the hospital at Mare Island, CA on Feb. 20, 1865 suffering from a broken leg. His date of discharge is unknown.
1870 Census lists John, age 40 and a Jour Machinist, residing in East Boston along with 36-year-old wife Elizabeth and daughters Mary E., born in 1857, and Anna Eliza, born in 1869. Another daughter Lillie, born August 5, 1864 died of Hydrocephalus on August 5, 1864.
Widowed when his wife Mary died in Chelsea on Nov. 5, 1878, in 1880 daughter Annie, then 11 was residing with her sister Mary, then 23 and the wife of Sylvanus Dyer, and their 4 year old daughter Grace L. on Endicott Ave. in Chelsea.
John died of a “cerebral disease” at 1 Pembroke St., Chelsea on May 15, 1888
Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy
The son of James and Mary Badger (Graves) Merrill, he married Elizabeth Myers, born in 1836 at Rockland, ME, at Boston in 1856.
John served in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War as a quarter gunner aboard the Steamer USS Wateree which was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in January 1864 and was assigned to the Pacific Squadron. Navy records indicated John was admitted to the hospital at Mare Island, CA on Feb. 20, 1865 suffering from a broken leg. His date of discharge is unknown.
1870 Census lists John, age 40 and a Jour Machinist, residing in East Boston along with 36-year-old wife Elizabeth and daughters Mary E., born in 1857, and Anna Eliza, born in 1869. Another daughter Lillie, born August 5, 1864 died of Hydrocephalus on August 5, 1864.
Widowed when his wife Mary died in Chelsea on Nov. 5, 1878, in 1880 daughter Annie, then 11 was residing with her sister Mary, then 23 and the wife of Sylvanus Dyer, and their 4 year old daughter Grace L. on Endicott Ave. in Chelsea.
John died of a “cerebral disease” at 1 Pembroke St., Chelsea on May 15, 1888
Civil War veteran
Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy
The son of James and Mary Badger (Graves) Merrill, he married Elizabeth Myers, born in 1836 at Rockland, ME, at Boston in 1856.
John served in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War as a quarter gunner aboard the Steamer USS Wateree which was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in January 1864 and was assigned to the Pacific Squadron. Navy records indicated John was admitted to the hospital at Mare Island, CA on Feb. 20, 1865 suffering from a broken leg. His date of discharge is unknown.
1870 Census lists John, age 40 and a Jour Machinist, residing in East Boston along with 36-year-old wife Elizabeth and daughters Mary E., born in 1857, and Anna Eliza, born in 1869. Another daughter Lillie, born August 5, 1864 died of Hydrocephalus on August 5, 1864.
Widowed when his wife Mary died in Chelsea on Nov. 5, 1878, in 1880 daughter Annie, then 11 was residing with her sister Mary, then 23 and the wife of Sylvanus Dyer, and their 4 year old daughter Grace L. on Endicott Ave. in Chelsea.
John died of a “cerebral disease” at 1 Pembroke St., Chelsea on May 15, 1888
Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy
The son of James and Mary Badger (Graves) Merrill, he married Elizabeth Myers, born in 1836 at Rockland, ME, at Boston in 1856.
John served in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War as a quarter gunner aboard the Steamer USS Wateree which was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in January 1864 and was assigned to the Pacific Squadron. Navy records indicated John was admitted to the hospital at Mare Island, CA on Feb. 20, 1865 suffering from a broken leg. His date of discharge is unknown.
1870 Census lists John, age 40 and a Jour Machinist, residing in East Boston along with 36-year-old wife Elizabeth and daughters Mary E., born in 1857, and Anna Eliza, born in 1869. Another daughter Lillie, born August 5, 1864 died of Hydrocephalus on August 5, 1864.
Widowed when his wife Mary died in Chelsea on Nov. 5, 1878, in 1880 daughter Annie, then 11 was residing with her sister Mary, then 23 and the wife of Sylvanus Dyer, and their 4 year old daughter Grace L. on Endicott Ave. in Chelsea.
John died of a “cerebral disease” at 1 Pembroke St., Chelsea on May 15, 1888
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