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Descendants of Benjamin Merrell

65. AZARIAH⁸ MERRELL (AMOS⁷, JONATHAN⁶, BENJAMIN⁵, WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM³, RICHARD², WILLIAM¹) was born 1826 in Lincoln Co., Tenn., and died June 12, 1855 in Shelby Co., Ala.. He married NANCY AUTRY October 15, 1851 in Shelby, Alabama, daughter of ENOCH AUTRY and SUSAN UNKNOWN. She was born 1828 in Alabama.

Children of AZARIAH MERRELL and NANCY AUTRY are:

	i.		MARY⁹ MERRELL, b. 1852, Shelby, Alabama.
	ii.		JONATHAN MERRELL, b. 1854, Shelby, Alabama.

66. WILLIAM "BILL"⁸ MERRELL (AMOS⁷, JONATHAN⁶, BENJAMIN⁵, WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM³, RICHARD², WILLIAM¹) was born March 1828 in Lincoln Co., Tenn., and died 1902 in Shelby Co., Ala.. He married (1) PRESCILLA WILLIAMS March 15, 1849 in Shelby Co., Ala., daughter of HUGH WILLIAMS and RACHEL POST. She was born 1832 in Alabama. He married (2) ELIZABETH UNK. 1897. She was born December 1843.

Children of WILLIAM MERRELL and PRESCILLA WILLIAMS are:

	i.		AZARIAH H. "AIRS"⁹ MERRELL, b. March 28, 1850, Shelby Co., Ala.; d. December 06, 1918, Shelby Co., Ala. -; m. MARY ELIZABETH MAYNARD, May 20, 1872, Shelby, Ala. by Stephen Hosey; b. September 12, 1848, Perry Co., Ala.; d. August 25, 1929, Chilton Co., Ala..
	ii.		ALICE ANN MERRELL, b. April 12, 1854, Shelby Co., Ala.; d. January 05, 1919, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Ala.; m. (1) ABRABAM "ABEL" MAYNARD, December 19, 1872, Shelby Co., Ala. by Stephen Hosey; b. July 27, 1850, Shelby Co., Ala.; d. December 29, 1916, Shelby Co., Ala.; m. (2) ABRAHAM "ABEL" MAYNARD, December 19, 1872; b. July 27, 1850, Shelby Co., Ala.; d. December 29, 1916, Shelby Co., Ala..
	iii.		JEMIMA JANE MERRELL, b. August 18, 1855, Shelby, Alabama; d. January 05, 1923, Calera, Shelby Co., Ala.; m. JAMES WESLEY "JIM" MAYNARD, April 06, 1882, Shelby Co., Ala.; b. September 14, 1857, Alabama; d. October 19, 1918, Ensley, Jefferson Co., AL , bur. Calera, Shelby Co., - bur. Salem cem...
	iv.		FRANCES ANN MERRELL, b. May 10, 1857, Shelby, Alabama; d. March 31, 1941, Clanton, Chilton Co., Ala.; m. (1) WILLIAM JONES; m. (2) JAMES THOMAS NELSON, December 17, 1890, Chilton Co., Ala.; b. January 04, 1833, 28 feb 1934.
	v.		RACHEL MERRELL, b. 1859, Shelby, Alabama; m. UNK. HOPE.
	vi.		JUNIOR WILLIAM S. MERRELL, b. February 1862, Shelby, Alabama; d. Bet. 1920 - 1926; m. MARTHA "MATTIE" CABANISS, December 22, 1889, Shelby Co., Ala. by W. P. Hall; b. June 30, 1867; d. March 26, 1933, Talladega Co., Ala...

67. NANCY⁸ WISEMAN (ELEANER "NELLIE"⁷ MERRELL, JONATHAN⁶, BENJAMIN⁵, WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM³, RICHARD², WILLIAM¹) was born Abt 1808 in Rowan Co., NC, and died March 07, 1891 in Tennessee. She married NOEL DRIVER Abt 1826, son of BENJAMIN DRIVER and NANCY AVON. He was born Abt 1808, and died December 11, 1855.

Children of NANCY WISEMAN and NOEL DRIVER are:

	i.		ELEANOR "NELLIE"⁹ DRIVER, b. Abt 1828; m. JUNIOR WILLIAM E. MERRELL; b. July 02, 1822; d. 1882.
	ii.		NANCY DRIVER, b. January 27, 1831; d. May 31, 1906; m. ROBERT CUNNINGHAM.
	iii.		SARAH VIRGINIA DRIVER, b. Abt 1831, Tennessee; d. May 04, 1895, Lincoln Co., Tenn.; m. JASPER JAMES CLARK.
	iv.		WILEY DRIVER, b. July 21, 1835, Bedford Co., Tenn.; m. DICEY J. GUNTER, February 06, 1867, Lincoln Co., Tenn..
	v.		WILLIAM RILEY DRIVER, b. Abt 1838; m. MARGARET COX.
	vi.		ELIZABETH DRIVER.
	vii.		THOMAS NOEL DRIVER, b. May 22, 1842.
	viii.		MARILDA DRIVER, b. September 13, 1844.

68. JOHN⁸ MERRELL (WILLIAM E.⁷, JONATHAN⁶, BENJAMIN⁵, WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM³, RICHARD², WILLIAM¹) was born September 10, 1815 in Rowan Co., NC. He married ELIZABETH STONE December 12, 1839 in Tenn.. She was born May 25, 1825.

Children of JOHN MERRELL and ELIZABETH STONE are:

	i.		JAMES⁹ MERRELL, b. October 03, 1840, Lincoln, Tenn.; m. LOISA JOSEPHINE REED, December 11, 1860, Lincoln, Tenn..
	ii.		LUCY A. MERRELL, b. March 03, 1842, Lincoln, Tenn.; m. A. D. BLYTHE, August 20, 1868.
	iii.		ELIJAH MERRELL, b. January 31, 1846, Lincoln, Tenn.; m. LUCINDA COOK, March 14, 1874, Lincoln, Tenn..
	iv.		JOHN F. MERRELL, b. February 26, 1848, Lincoln, Tenn..
	v.		JOHN MERRELL, b. January 11, 1850, Lincoln, Tenn..
	vi.		MARGARET MERRELL, b. October 10, 1852, Lincoln, Tenn..
	vii.		ELIZABETH MERRELL, b. October 28, 1854, Lincoln, Tenn.; m. JOHN LOUIS FERGUSON, November 15, 1871, Howard, Arkansas.
	viii.		MARY MERRELL, b. April 19, 1861, Lincoln, Tenn..
	ix.		NANCY ELLEN MERRELL, b. January 17, 1864, Lincoln, Tenn.; m. DAVID BENNETT SAIN, February 24, 1881, Howard, Arkansas.

69. JUNIOR WILLIAM E.⁸ MERRELL (WILLIAM E.⁷, JONATHAN⁶, BENJAMIN⁵, WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM³, RICHARD², WILLIAM¹) was born July 02, 1822, and died 1882. He married ELEANOR "NELLIE" DRIVER, daughter of NOEL DRIVER and NANCY WISEMAN. She was born Abt 1828.

Children of WILLIAM MERRELL and ELEANOR DRIVER are:

	i.		WILLIAM N.⁹ MERRELL, b. Bet. 1847 - 1848, Lincoln Co., Tenn.; m. MARGARET A. DELZELL, October 30, 1865, Bedford Co., Tenn..
	ii.		JOHN W. MERRELL, b. Abt 1849.
	iii.		SARAH JANE MERRELL, b. April 14, 1853, Moore Co., Tenn.; d. March 31, 1889, Boonhill Cem. in Lincoln Co., Tenn.; m. EBENEZER M. CLARK, November 24, 1872, Moore Co., Tenn.; b. December 25, 1847, Lincoln Co., Tenn.; d. July 26, 1926, Boonhill Cem. in Lincoln Co., Tenn..
	iv.		LUCY H. MERRELL, b. Abt 1854; d. August 20, 1871, Lincoln Co., Tenn.; m. A. D. BLYTHE.
	v.		MARY MARGARET MERRELL, b. Bet. 1855 - 1856.
	vi.		ELIJAH T. MERRELL, b. Bet. 1858 - 1859; m. N. E. "BETTY" DRIVER, October 26, 1878.
	vii.		JEFF W. MERRELL, b. Bet. 1850 - 1861; m. SARAH MARSHALL, April 04, 1880, Mooe County, Cenn..
	viii.		NANCY E. MERRELL, b. Abt 1863.
	ix.		MARTHA E. MERRELL, b. Abt 1865.
	x.		LAURA F. MERRELL, b. Abt 1867.
	xi.		RILDY MERRELL, b. Abt 1871.
	xii.		SIDIE (SIDHEY) MERRELL, b. Abt 1874.
	xiii.		SARAH JANE MERRILL, b. April 14, 1853, Moore Co., Tenn.; d. March 31, 1889, Boonhill Cem. in Lincoln Co., Tenn..

70. JANE⁸ MERRELL (BENJAMIN⁷, JONATHAN⁶, BENJAMIN⁵, WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM³, RICHARD², WILLIAM¹) was born December 02, 1835 in Lincoln, Tenn., and died in Tolar, Texas. She married AUSTIN MUSICK November 29, 1850 in Union Parish, La., son of JAMES MUSICK and HARRIETT SEALE. He was born April 15, 1826 in Shelby, Ala., and died July 04, 1916 in Tolar, Texas.

Notes for AUSTIN MUSICK:
Copied from "History of Texas" - dated 1896

Austin Musick has been identified with the interests of Hood County, Texas, since the fall of 1882, and figures as one of its respected farmers and stock-men. As such, a review of his life is appropriate in this work, and is as follows:

Austin Musick was born in Shelby Co., Alabama on April 15, 1826,the son of James and Harriet (Seale) Musick, the former a naive of North Carolina and the latter of South Carolina. Early in life his paents settled in Alabama, where they passed their lives on a farm. Austin therefore was reared to farm pursuits,and he received his education in the common schools. His mother died when he was sixteen. At the age of nineteen he left home and started out in the world on his own responsibility. He rented a piece of land on the shares in Alabama and made one crop there, and then in the following December, went to Louisiana, where for four years he worked for wages and cultivated rented land. While there, he married and afterward he settled on a farm in Union Parish and followed farming there and in Moorehouse Parish until his coming to Texas, which was in June, 1857, his first settlement here being in Jasper County. That year he rented a farm and the next year he purchased a tract of unimproved land. This he partially improved and sold, then bought and improved another tract, and was living on the latter place at the opening of the Civil War. During the war, he sold out and purchased a smaller place, to wich he moved his family, and soon after he entered the Confederate Army, going out as a member of Company G, Thirteenth (dismounted) Cavalry. His service was chiefly in southern Louisiana. He was in the engagements at Ashten, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill and Jenkins Ferry, the last named in Arkansas, and from there he returned to Louisiana and thence to Texas, remaining in the service until the war closed.

Mr. Musick continued to eside in Jasper County until September, 1867,when he removed to Hill County and purchased aq tract of wild land, to the improvement and cultivation of which he devoted his energies, and where he resided until his removal to Hood County in the fall of 1882.

The first year of his residence in Hood County, he lived on rented land near Lipan. Then he bought three hundred acres of timber land, wholly unimproved, and at once set about the work of clearing away the forest and making a home. On this place he has since resided. Now he has fifty acres under cultivation, and in his farming and stock-raising is meeting with success, which his earnest efforts merit.

Mr. Musick was married November 29, 1850, to Miss Jane Merrell, a native of Lincoln Co., Tenn. and a daughter of Benjamin Merrell, who settled in Louisiana when Mrs. Musick was a girl of twelve years. They have had six children, four of whom are still living: Henry, a farmer of Hood County; Malissa, wife of N. C. Addison, of this County; Sarah Ann, wife of Jonathan Brown, of Hill County; and J.
A. Musick of this County.

Politically, Mr. Musick affiliates with the People's Party. He is a man of broad views and keeps himself well posted on the issues of the day, and especially is he well informed on all matters pertaining to the interest of the farmer. For years he has maintained a membership in the Farmers' Alliance. Mrs. Musick is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church."

Children of JANE MERRELL and AUSTIN MUSICK are:

	i.		UNNAMED⁹ MUSICK.
	ii.		UNNAMED MUSICK.
	iii.		MELISSA MUSICK, m. N. C. ADDISON.
	iv.		SARAH ANN MUSICK.
	v.		JOHN A. MUSICK, m. MAUDE WATTS.
	vi.		HENRY MUSICK, b. October 01, 1853, La.; d. October 01, 1928, Tolar, Texas; m. ELIZA BURKETT, July 26, 1877; b. January 13, 1851, Harrisburg, Miss.; d. March 13, 1934, Jasper, Texas.

Notes for HENRY MUSICK:
Taken from "History of Texas" dated 1896

Henry Musick - In the subject of this resume is found a self-made man and one of the prominent and enterprising farmers of Hood County, Texas.

Mr. Musick is a native of Louisiana, born October 1,1853,second son of Austin Musick, honorable mention of whom is made on another page of this work. In his infancy he was brought by his parents to the "Lone Star State", their settlement being in Jasper County. Leaving Jasper County in 1867, they moved to Hill County. He remained at the parental home until he arrived at the age of twenty-six years, after which he came to Hood County, that being in 1878. Here on the Kickapoo Creek, he purchased a small farm. His well-directed and honest toil was attended with success as he years passed by, and in 1883,he made another land purchase, this time two hundred acres of wild land covered with a heavy growth of timber. To-day he has a fine tract of land, three hundred acres in extent, one hundred and twenty-five acres of which are under cultivation;l has good improvements upon his land and is comfortaqble and pleasantly situated.

Mr. Musick was married July 26, 1877, to Miss Eliza Burkett, a native of Mississippi and the daughter of George Washington Burkett of Jasper County, Mississippi. Their union has been blessed in the birth of nine children, one dying in infancy and others being named as follows: John A., James R., Elizabeth J., Mary Eliza, Henry J., Martha I., Saah L., and Joseph Mc.

Fraternally, Mr. Musick is both a Mason and an Odd Fedllow, and maintains a membership in Cherity Lodge, No. 565, A.F.& A.M., and Lipan Lodge, No. 298, I.O.O.F. Politically, he does not adhere to any of the numerous parties but is independent in his views and casts his vote for the man and the measure rather than the party. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist Chuch. .

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