Person:Fidelia Merriam (1)

Watchers
m. 21 Apr 1808
  1. Lansford Merriam1809 - 1845
  2. _____ MerriamAbt 1810 - 1810
  3. Orra Merriam1811 - 1851
  4. Fidelia MerriamCal 1813 - 1860
  5. Fanny MerriamAbt 1815 - 1818
  6. Mary Angelia MerriamCal 1817 - 1867
  7. Julia Ann Merriam1820 - 1840
  8. _____ MerriamAbt 1821 - 1821
  9. Darwin Merriam1822 - 1899
Facts and Events
Name[4] Fidelia Merriam
Gender Female
Birth[1] Cal 14 Oct 1813 New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[2] 22 Jan 1817 New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1][3] 28 Aug 1860 Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
    Vol. 138, p. 302.

    Deaths registered in the Town of Orange for the year 1860.
    No.: 11
    Date of Death: Aug. 28 [1860]
    Name: Fidelia Merriam
    Age: 46 y. 10 m. 14 d. [birth calculates to about 14 Oct 1813]
    Place of Death: Orange
    Cause: Typhoid Fever
    Sex and Condition: Female Unmarried
    Occupation: [blank]
    Place of Birth: New Salem
    Parents: Benjamin Merriam / Mary Merriam
    Birthplaces of Parents: New Salem

  2. New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of New Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1927)
    p. 33.

    MERRIAM, Fidelia, d. Benjamin and Polly, bp. jan. 22, 1817. CR
    [Note: Siblings Fanny, Fidelia, Lansford, and Orra all baptized the same date.]

  3. Find A Grave: Holtshire Cemetery, Orange, MA, in Find A Grave
    Fidelia Merriam.

    FIDELIA MERRIAM
    Died
    [Aug.] 28, 1860
    [Note: bracketed text unreadable, supplied from other sources. If anything else, it is buried.

  4. Pope, Charles Henry. Merriam Genealogy in England and America: Including the "Genealogical Memoranda" of Charles Pierce Merriam, the Collections of James Sheldon Merriam, etc. (Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1906)
    p. 235.

    Children of Benjamin Merriam [#450] and first wife Mary Perry: Fidelia, b. 14 Nov 1813 [sic, no birth record found, miscalculation from age at death?], d. 28 Aug 1860.

  5.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432)
    line 2.
  6.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1855 Massachusetts State Census
    right side, line 36.
  7.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M693)
    line 21.