Margaret May "Maggie" Merritt was firstly married to William Henry Sisk. He was born in IL and is on the 1910 US Census for Cairo City, Alexander Co IL in HH 416 of William E. Merritt, his father-in-law. Sometime thereafter, he is registered on a WW-I Draft Card with a residence of Memphis, TN, but employed as a plumbing foreman by Pruitt Engineering & Mechinical Co in Little Rock AR. He listed May Sisk as his Nearest Relative. His second daughter, Beatrice told me that he had kissed them all goodbye in Memphis and left to look for work, never to be heard from again. May came to Ft Worth TX about 1924 because she heard that he had gone there. She never found him, at least as far as family knew. She married Elijah Jefferson Fitzgerald before 1930.
Add'l info provided by: Gerry Gieger
Margaret May "Maggie" Merritt was firstly married to William Henry Sisk. He was born in IL and is on the 1910 US Census for Cairo City, Alexander Co IL in HH 416 of William E. Merritt, his father-in-law. Sometime thereafter, he is registered on a WW-I Draft Card with a residence of Memphis, TN, but employed as a plumbing foreman by Pruitt Engineering & Mechinical Co in Little Rock AR. He listed May Sisk as his Nearest Relative. His second daughter, Beatrice told me that he had kissed them all goodbye in Memphis and left to look for work, never to be heard from again. May came to Ft Worth TX about 1924 because she heard that he had gone there. She never found him, at least as far as family knew. She married Elijah Jefferson Fitzgerald before 1930.
Add'l info provided by: Gerry Gieger
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