Their children-- 6 girls and 6 boys:
Sadie, Louise, Mary, Rosie, Hazel, LolaMay
Jack, Lee, Cleveland, Woodrow, Tom, Robert
Married Ivie Cornelia Brown and had 2 step children and 2 biological children: Lorene Morgan Coddington , H.B. Morgan, Mildred Katrinia Merritt Spell, and Bobby Joe Merritt
Worked as a sharecropper in the cotton fields in southern Arkansas until 1952. Went to work for AR Hwy Dept.
Bobby Joe remembers working those fields every year.
He says his dad wasn't affectionate but rather a hard worker and drunk. Although he also said dad was a prankster too.
Their children-- 6 girls and 6 boys:
Sadie, Louise, Mary, Rosie, Hazel, LolaMay
Jack, Lee, Cleveland, Woodrow, Tom, Robert
Married Ivie Cornelia Brown and had 2 step children and 2 biological children: Lorene Morgan Coddington , H.B. Morgan, Mildred Katrinia Merritt Spell, and Bobby Joe Merritt
Worked as a sharecropper in the cotton fields in southern Arkansas until 1952. Went to work for AR Hwy Dept.
Bobby Joe remembers working those fields every year.
He says his dad wasn't affectionate but rather a hard worker and drunk. Although he also said dad was a prankster too.
Gravesite Details
shares headstone with wife
Family Members
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Jack Merritt
1899–1973
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Lola Mae Merritt Winters
1902–1970
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Albert Lee Merritt
1904–1975
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Rosa Belle Merritt Eubanks-Mixon
1905–1984
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Cleveland Merritt
1907–1973
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Katie May Merritt Banks
1909–1981
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Sadie Ruth Merritt
1911–1988
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Tom Merritt
1912–1975
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Louise Elizabeth Merritt Hogue
1915–2002
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Woodrow Wilson Merritt
1916–1971
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Mary Frances Merritt Morris
1919–1983
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