Samuel Merrill - Wyuka Cemetery - Lincoln, Nebraska
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N 40° 49.017 W 096° 39.949
14T E 696858 N 4521058
This small, three foot four-sided marker is located near the "O" Street Entrance of the Wyuka Cemetery - 3600 O Street in Lincoln, Ne.
Waymark Code: WMM4DZ
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 07/19/2014
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Text of side one of the marker:
Samuel Merrill
Died July 4, 1884
Aged 79 Yrs. 7mos.
(three links of chain from the Odd Fellows)
Text of side two of the marker:
Catherine A.
Wife of John H. Merrill
Died Oct. 15, 1881
Aged 26Yrs. 8Mos.
Text of side three of the marker:
Martha Merrill
Died Apr. 23, 1889
Aged 79Yrs. 8Mos.
(rose)
Safe in the arms of Jesus
Safe on His gentle breast.
Hark a voice divides the sky;
Happy are the faithful dead;
Jesus is their great reward;
Jesus is their endless rest.
(Side four has a bouquet wreath of roses.
From the Wyuka Cemetery Tour Guide listed from nebraskahistory.org- page 3:
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visit link)
"A short distance east of the Beeson plot is the ornate monument of the Merrill family. Samuel Merrill was born in England in 1805 and died in Pleasant Dale, Nebraska in 1884. Also interred in the family plot were Mr. Merrill's wife Martha and their daughter-in-law Catherine. Their bluish-gray marker is not stone, but was cast of zinc by the Western White Bronze Company of Des Moines, Iowa. This late-nineteenth technique allowed the casting of richly detailed monuments. Wyuka has about a half-dozen "white bronze" monuments, several of which are identified on this tour. The three link of chain depicted on the Merrill monument symbolize the IOOF or International Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal group.