Enlisted in Company D, Ohio 31st Infantry Regiment on Sept. 7, 1861. Mustered out on July 20, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
The picture shown is of his wife, Amanda Melissa Stephen, and two of their daughters, Emma and Louella Mercer, standing beside the headstone. It was taken shortly after he was buried and the monument was placed.
It was taken with one of the old camera's that produced postcards but it was never addressed and mailed, it was given to my mother by her Uncle Forrest Arthur Mercer, Thomas' grandson. I know of another one that was passed down in the family of his son Horace Virgil Mercer with a slightly different background as it shows the workers that set the stone. There may have been others that were given to the other children.
I could never make out the entire inscription on the stone from the postcard and appreciate the person that put the picture on his memorial. It looks to be in very good shape for a 100 year old stone.
Uncle Art as we called him is the one that married Madeline Louise Branson shown in my profile.
Thomas fell prey to the "Mercer Scam" perpetrated by P.P. Mast and owned several shares in the Mercer Heirs Association. Between family documents passed down and now DNA testing his connection to Thomas Mercer of Ayno-on-the-Hill, England is confirmed.
Update: Oct 27, 2014 - I have been able to find the memorials of four more of their children, John William, Julia Albert, Oliver Perry and Horace Virgil, besides the three already attached and have sent edits to have them connected. That only leaved, Emma, Sadie and Bertha May to find.
cawatkins - Great-Great Grandson
The picture shown is of his wife, Amanda Melissa Stephen, and two of their daughters, Emma and Louella Mercer, standing beside the headstone. It was taken shortly after he was buried and the monument was placed.
It was taken with one of the old camera's that produced postcards but it was never addressed and mailed, it was given to my mother by her Uncle Forrest Arthur Mercer, Thomas' grandson. I know of another one that was passed down in the family of his son Horace Virgil Mercer with a slightly different background as it shows the workers that set the stone. There may have been others that were given to the other children.
I could never make out the entire inscription on the stone from the postcard and appreciate the person that put the picture on his memorial. It looks to be in very good shape for a 100 year old stone.
Uncle Art as we called him is the one that married Madeline Louise Branson shown in my profile.
Thomas fell prey to the "Mercer Scam" perpetrated by P.P. Mast and owned several shares in the Mercer Heirs Association. Between family documents passed down and now DNA testing his connection to Thomas Mercer of Ayno-on-the-Hill, England is confirmed.
Update: Oct 27, 2014 - I have been able to find the memorials of four more of their children, John William, Julia Albert, Oliver Perry and Horace Virgil, besides the three already attached and have sent edits to have them connected. That only leaved, Emma, Sadie and Bertha May to find.
cawatkins - Great-Great Grandson
Enlisted in Company D, Ohio 31st Infantry Regiment on Sept. 7, 1861. Mustered out on July 20, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
The picture shown is of his wife, Amanda Melissa Stephen, and two of their daughters, Emma and Louella Mercer, standing beside the headstone. It was taken shortly after he was buried and the monument was placed.
It was taken with one of the old camera's that produced postcards but it was never addressed and mailed, it was given to my mother by her Uncle Forrest Arthur Mercer, Thomas' grandson. I know of another one that was passed down in the family of his son Horace Virgil Mercer with a slightly different background as it shows the workers that set the stone. There may have been others that were given to the other children.
I could never make out the entire inscription on the stone from the postcard and appreciate the person that put the picture on his memorial. It looks to be in very good shape for a 100 year old stone.
Uncle Art as we called him is the one that married Madeline Louise Branson shown in my profile.
Thomas fell prey to the "Mercer Scam" perpetrated by P.P. Mast and owned several shares in the Mercer Heirs Association. Between family documents passed down and now DNA testing his connection to Thomas Mercer of Ayno-on-the-Hill, England is confirmed.
Update: Oct 27, 2014 - I have been able to find the memorials of four more of their children, John William, Julia Albert, Oliver Perry and Horace Virgil, besides the three already attached and have sent edits to have them connected. That only leaved, Emma, Sadie and Bertha May to find.
cawatkins - Great-Great Grandson
The picture shown is of his wife, Amanda Melissa Stephen, and two of their daughters, Emma and Louella Mercer, standing beside the headstone. It was taken shortly after he was buried and the monument was placed.
It was taken with one of the old camera's that produced postcards but it was never addressed and mailed, it was given to my mother by her Uncle Forrest Arthur Mercer, Thomas' grandson. I know of another one that was passed down in the family of his son Horace Virgil Mercer with a slightly different background as it shows the workers that set the stone. There may have been others that were given to the other children.
I could never make out the entire inscription on the stone from the postcard and appreciate the person that put the picture on his memorial. It looks to be in very good shape for a 100 year old stone.
Uncle Art as we called him is the one that married Madeline Louise Branson shown in my profile.
Thomas fell prey to the "Mercer Scam" perpetrated by P.P. Mast and owned several shares in the Mercer Heirs Association. Between family documents passed down and now DNA testing his connection to Thomas Mercer of Ayno-on-the-Hill, England is confirmed.
Update: Oct 27, 2014 - I have been able to find the memorials of four more of their children, John William, Julia Albert, Oliver Perry and Horace Virgil, besides the three already attached and have sent edits to have them connected. That only leaved, Emma, Sadie and Bertha May to find.
cawatkins - Great-Great Grandson
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