Los Angeles Times – March 29, 1919:
LAST OF EARTH FOR SPANISH WAR HERO
Volunteered with Others to Take Cervera's Flagship to New York
With distinguished military honors, the body of Arthur Louis Merry, aged 48 years, a hero of the Spanish-American War, who died from a paralytic stroke, Friday night at his home, 1142 West Fifty-third street, will be laid to rest in Roosevelt plot in Rosedale today. Funeral services will be conducted at Bresee Bros. at 3 p.m., with Roosevelt Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, in charge. The honorary pallbearers will be from the water department, of which Mr. Merry had been an employee for the last eleven years.
The casket will be draped with the flag which Mr. Merry raised in Honolulu, when his uncle, the late Admiral John A. Merry of Boston, received his commission, and which Mr. Merry lowered when his uncle retired.
In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Mr. Merry volunteered, with a crew under Capt. Ira Harris, to return to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of assisting in towing Cervera's flagship, the Infanta Maria Teresa, to New York. Mr. Merry had previously served in the blockading squadron in Cuba, under Samson and Schley. On the trip the tow-boat encountered a hurricane off Watling Island, and, after a struggle, the crew was compelled to abandon the Infanta Maria, which was wrecked on the island.
Mr. Merry leaves a widow, Mrs. A. L. Merry of Los Angeles, his mother, Mrs. Louis F. Merry of West Somerville, Mass., two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Royal and Miss Mary Merry of West Somerville, and two brothers, Louis Merry of West Somerville, and Ralph Merry of New York City.
LAST OF EARTH FOR SPANISH WAR HERO
Volunteered with Others to Take Cervera's Flagship to New York
With distinguished military honors, the body of Arthur Louis Merry, aged 48 years, a hero of the Spanish-American War, who died from a paralytic stroke, Friday night at his home, 1142 West Fifty-third street, will be laid to rest in Roosevelt plot in Rosedale today. Funeral services will be conducted at Bresee Bros. at 3 p.m., with Roosevelt Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, in charge. The honorary pallbearers will be from the water department, of which Mr. Merry had been an employee for the last eleven years.
The casket will be draped with the flag which Mr. Merry raised in Honolulu, when his uncle, the late Admiral John A. Merry of Boston, received his commission, and which Mr. Merry lowered when his uncle retired.
In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Mr. Merry volunteered, with a crew under Capt. Ira Harris, to return to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of assisting in towing Cervera's flagship, the Infanta Maria Teresa, to New York. Mr. Merry had previously served in the blockading squadron in Cuba, under Samson and Schley. On the trip the tow-boat encountered a hurricane off Watling Island, and, after a struggle, the crew was compelled to abandon the Infanta Maria, which was wrecked on the island.
Mr. Merry leaves a widow, Mrs. A. L. Merry of Los Angeles, his mother, Mrs. Louis F. Merry of West Somerville, Mass., two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Royal and Miss Mary Merry of West Somerville, and two brothers, Louis Merry of West Somerville, and Ralph Merry of New York City.
Los Angeles Times – March 29, 1919:
LAST OF EARTH FOR SPANISH WAR HERO
Volunteered with Others to Take Cervera's Flagship to New York
With distinguished military honors, the body of Arthur Louis Merry, aged 48 years, a hero of the Spanish-American War, who died from a paralytic stroke, Friday night at his home, 1142 West Fifty-third street, will be laid to rest in Roosevelt plot in Rosedale today. Funeral services will be conducted at Bresee Bros. at 3 p.m., with Roosevelt Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, in charge. The honorary pallbearers will be from the water department, of which Mr. Merry had been an employee for the last eleven years.
The casket will be draped with the flag which Mr. Merry raised in Honolulu, when his uncle, the late Admiral John A. Merry of Boston, received his commission, and which Mr. Merry lowered when his uncle retired.
In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Mr. Merry volunteered, with a crew under Capt. Ira Harris, to return to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of assisting in towing Cervera's flagship, the Infanta Maria Teresa, to New York. Mr. Merry had previously served in the blockading squadron in Cuba, under Samson and Schley. On the trip the tow-boat encountered a hurricane off Watling Island, and, after a struggle, the crew was compelled to abandon the Infanta Maria, which was wrecked on the island.
Mr. Merry leaves a widow, Mrs. A. L. Merry of Los Angeles, his mother, Mrs. Louis F. Merry of West Somerville, Mass., two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Royal and Miss Mary Merry of West Somerville, and two brothers, Louis Merry of West Somerville, and Ralph Merry of New York City.
LAST OF EARTH FOR SPANISH WAR HERO
Volunteered with Others to Take Cervera's Flagship to New York
With distinguished military honors, the body of Arthur Louis Merry, aged 48 years, a hero of the Spanish-American War, who died from a paralytic stroke, Friday night at his home, 1142 West Fifty-third street, will be laid to rest in Roosevelt plot in Rosedale today. Funeral services will be conducted at Bresee Bros. at 3 p.m., with Roosevelt Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, in charge. The honorary pallbearers will be from the water department, of which Mr. Merry had been an employee for the last eleven years.
The casket will be draped with the flag which Mr. Merry raised in Honolulu, when his uncle, the late Admiral John A. Merry of Boston, received his commission, and which Mr. Merry lowered when his uncle retired.
In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Mr. Merry volunteered, with a crew under Capt. Ira Harris, to return to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of assisting in towing Cervera's flagship, the Infanta Maria Teresa, to New York. Mr. Merry had previously served in the blockading squadron in Cuba, under Samson and Schley. On the trip the tow-boat encountered a hurricane off Watling Island, and, after a struggle, the crew was compelled to abandon the Infanta Maria, which was wrecked on the island.
Mr. Merry leaves a widow, Mrs. A. L. Merry of Los Angeles, his mother, Mrs. Louis F. Merry of West Somerville, Mass., two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Royal and Miss Mary Merry of West Somerville, and two brothers, Louis Merry of West Somerville, and Ralph Merry of New York City.
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