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- 1897 Tioga County History Chapter 59 Part One - Wellsboro - Biographies ISRAEL MERRICK, JR., was one of the prosperous and progressivepioneersof Tioga county. Of New England ancestry, he was born in thestate ofDelaware in 1790, whither his parents, Israel Merrick, Sr.,and his wife,had removed in search of a home. Not liking the place,and having theirattention called to the inducements Morris was holdingout for settlersin Wellsboro, they came here about 1805. IsraelMerrick, Sr., was a tall,venerable looking man. He was married twice,and died April 30, 1844,aged seventy-eight years. He was buried inAnsonia cemetery. His secondwife was a sister-in-law of Justus Dartt,of Charleston township. IsraelMerrick, Jr., had three fullsisters—Margaret, who married MordecaiMoore; Mary, who married ElmerBacon, Sr., and Rebecca, who marriedDaniel Kelsey. Merrick and CharlesMoore took their parents to Arkansasover forty years ago, where theydied. Charles Moore at one timerepresented a district of Arkansas inCongress. He died of cholera manyyears ago. His brother, MerrickMoore, was a quarter-master general inthe Confederate service.
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