Michael Merritt

{Son of Trueman D. Merritt)
Michael Merritt 1842 - 1908 Michael Merritt Obit from The Frontier, 6 February 1908 Nebraska.
"Michael Merritt, a nomadic trapper, died at the residence of J. B. Long, in Willowdale township, last Saturday night after an illness of about a week, of brain fever and pneumonia. Deceased was about 63 years of age and had followed the life of a trapper, along the streams of this and adjoining counties, the past 5 or 6 years. He had been trapping along the Blackbird and getting sick started to go to Walnut, Knox County, where he has a brother living. When he reached Mr. Long’s he was delirious. He was taken in and medical aid summoned but pneumonia had set in and he sank rapidly, dying Saturday. His brother was summoned and came over from Walnut, staying with him one day, leaving the day before he died, and the poor old trapper was left to die among strangers, without the consoling touch or the sympathetic word of a relative. The remains were interred in the Mineola Cemetery, Monday."