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Primary Birth & Death

• Died at Pennsylvania^G.^2,3
• Born: Isabell Mercer was born on Saturday, 5 Jul 1828, at Columbiana County, Ohio^G.^1,4

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Isabell Mercer was the daughter of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹
• Born: Isabell Mercer was born circa 1830, at Ohio^G.⁵

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: William Mercer was born on Monday, 28 Sep 1829, at Columbiana County, Ohio^G.^1,2
• Died on Monday, 16 Apr 1923 at Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 93 years, 6 months and 19 days. Details as recorded: Wood County Volume 4161, Certificate ID: 29864.^2,3,4

'Non-primary' Vitals

• William Mercer was the son of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹
• Born: William Mercer was born circa 1831, at Ohio^G.⁵

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: John Mercer was born on Monday, 4 Apr 1831, at Columbiana County, Ohio^G.^1,2

'Non-primary' Vitals

• John Mercer was the son of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹
• Born: John Mercer was born circa 1833, at Ohio^G.³

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Reason Mercer was born on Tuesday, 21 Jan 1834, at Wood County, Ohio^G.^1,2,3,4
• Died on Tuesday, 28 Sep 1886 at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 52 years, 8 months and 7 days.^2,3,4
• Interred after 28 Sep 1886 at Rudolf (Bethel) Cemetery, Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G.^2,4

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Born: Reason Mercer was born circa 1834, at Ohio^G.⁵
• Born: Reason Mercer was born in Jan 1834, at Columbiana County, Ohio^G.⁶
• He was the son of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹
• Born: Reason Mercer was born on Thursday, 30 Jan 1834, at Wood County, Ohio^G.⁷

Other Major Events

• Military: on Thursday, 14 Aug 1862, at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G, Reason Mercer at age 28, began military service, Private, Company K, 111th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.^4,9
• Military: on Monday, 15 Dec 1862, at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky^G, Reason Mercer at age 28, completed military service.⁴
• Military: on Monday, 15 Dec 1862, at Portage Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G, Reason Mercer, at age 28, military service, Army of the United States - Certificate of Disability for Dishcarge
  
  Private Reason Mercer of Captain Days Company, K of the 111th Ohio Regiment of United States Vol Infy. was enlisted by Capt. D. W. H. Days of the 111th Regiment of Ohio Vols at Liberty Twp, Wood County, Ohio on the 14th day of August 1862 to serve 3 years; he was born in Wood County in the State of Ohio is twenty-six (26) years of age, 5 feet 8 1/4 inches high, light complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and by occupation when enlisted a Farmer. During the last two months said soldier has been unfit for duty 18 days.
  
  In? consequence of an injury received while on duty - chopping wood at Hospital No. 16 at (their)? place - resulting in the loss of a part of the left foot.
  
  Station: Bowling Green
  Date: Dec 15, 1862
  
  Commanding Company: D.W. H. Days, Capt.
  
  I certify that I have carefully examined the said Reason Mercer of Captain Day Company, and find him incapable of performing his duties as a soldier because of amputation of three of the largest toes of the left foot as the middle of the shaft of the metatarsal bones - caused as above stated by a wound received in the service of the United States - and amounting in my opinion to a permanent disability of one half of his future usefullness (sic).
  L.R. Brown, Surgeon, 111th Regt.
  
  Discharged this 15th day of Decr. 1862 at Bowling Green (Kentucky)
  R. ?___ Bryan, Commanding the Post.
  
  Town: Portage
  County: Wood
  State: Ohio
  
  SOURCE: Civil War Pension File No. 238,886
  
  Eliza A. MERCER, widow of Reason MERCER.⁴
• Military: on Saturday, 2 Apr 1864, Reason Mercer, at age 30, military service, On this 2nd day of April - A.D. 1864 before me, the undersigned Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above named personally approved - Reason Mercer - a resident of Portage Post Office in the State of Ohio aged 27 years who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Reason Mercer who was a Private in Company K commanded by Captain D W. H. Day in the 111th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers commanded by Colonel John R. Boone in the War of 1861 and 1862, for the (supprenure)? of the Rebellion - that he volunteered at Toledo and was enrolled in the State of Ohio on or about the 14th day of August A.D. 1862 for the term of three years and was honorably discharged at Bowling Green, Kentucky on the 19th day of December A.D. 1862 as will appear by his Certificate of Discharge herein presented. That while in said Service in the line of his duty at Bowling Green in the state of Kentucky on about the 4th day of December A.D. 1862, while cutting wood at the hospital, being detailed as a nurse there, accidentally cut off the greater portion of the fore part of the left foot and the (sic) their (sic) greater toes thereof, so that the same had to be taken clean off. Since which he has been disabled two thirds and more from obtaining a livelihood by manual labor he being a farmer. He makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed in the Invalid Pension Roll of the United States, by reason of the disability above stated - and hereby ?______ and appoints George Strain of Perrysburgh Ohio his attorney to presente (sic) this claim and procure a Pension Certificate.
  
  Signed. Reason Mercer
  
  Sworn to and subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year first-above named, and in the same day personally appeared B. F. Roberts - and Alphonzo Abbott - residents of Liberty Twp. in Wood County, Ohio - and made oath that they are personally acquainted with Reason Mercer who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration in their presence and that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with him, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be, that they reside as above states and are disinterested in this claim for Pension.
  
  Signed. B.F. Roberts
  Alphonzo Abbott
  
  Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its ?______; that I believe the affiants to be credible witnesses and the claimant is the person he represents himself to be.
  
  Signed. James W. Knaggs, Clerk, Wood Co. Common Pleas
  
  SOURCE: Civil War Pension File No. 238,886
  
  Eliza A. MERCER, widow of Reason MERCER
  
  State of Ohio, Wood County ss.⁴
• Will: on Friday, 24 Sep 1886, Reason Mercer left a will. Excerpts - Page 144:
  
  "Notice ot the next of Kin.
  
  The State of Ohio
  Wood County, ss In Probate Court
  
  In the matter of the Last Will and Testament of Reason Mercer Deceased. To Albert Mercer, Della Garnes and Austie Curtis & Mattie Mercer - You are hereby notified that on the 13 day of October A.D. 1886 an instrument of writing, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Reason Mercer late of Liberty Township, in said County, deceased was produced in open Court and an application to admit the same to Probate, was on same day made in said Court."
  
  Dated at Bowling Green, Ohio, this 13th day of October A.D. 1886.
  
  Excerpts - Page 145
  
  Reason Mercer's last will and testament makes the following provisions for his next of kin:
  
  "...to my wife Eliza S. Mercer the farm on which we now reside, situated in Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio and consisting of forty-five acres more or less during her natural life."
  
  "...after paying my debts contracted during my last sickness and funeral expenses out of my personal property, the remainder I will to my wife, Five hundred dollars of this fund to be held by my wife and used by her for the support of our youngest daughter Mattie L. Mercer and when she attains the age of (18) Eighteen years to be paid to her the said Mattie L. Mercer the said sum of ($500.00) Five hundred dollars."
  
  "I have given to my son Albert Mercer and daughter Della J. Garnes wife of Charles Garnes what would be an equal share of my property at their majority or marriage. I will in addition thereto each one some token the value not to exceed five dollars to be selected by them."
  
  "Austa E. Curtis wife of Edwin Curtis residing in Bowling Green, Ohio, I will her in addition to what I have heretofore given her one third of all their property remaining at the death of my wife and the remaining two thirds to my daughter Mattie L. Mercer."
  
  Eliza was appointed Executrix of the will, dated 24 Sep 1886. Reason Mercer died 28 Sep 1886.
  
  SOURCE: Will of Reason MERCER, W-1886, wb6, beginning page 144.⁴

• SOURCE: Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Biographical Its Past and Present. Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1897.
  
  Part 2, Page 1289 - HORACE MERCER, excerpted:
  
  "Horace Mercer ....born in Liberty township, October 18, 1841, and is a son of George and Jane (Montgomery) Mercer, natives of Pennsylvania. ...The children of the first union (George & Jane) were David, who died in Liberty township; Mary Ann, widow of James McCrory, and a resident of Liberty; Mrs. Isabel Wolf, who died in Pennsylvania; William of Portage township; John of Waterville, Ohio; George of Liberty township; Reason and Daniel, who died in Liberty township; Samuel, of Bowling Green; Horace; Caleb, of Liberty township; and Jane, wife of Peter Durey."⁴

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Samuel Mercer was born on Saturday, 11 Aug 1838, at Ohio^G.^1,2,3
• Died on Tuesday, 20 Feb 1923 at Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 84 years, 6 months and 9 days. Details as recorded: Wood County Volume 4103, Certificate ID: 15283.^4,5

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Samuel Mercer was the son of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Horace C. Mercer was born on Monday, 18 Oct 1841, at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G.^3,4
• Died on Tuesday, 15 Jan 1929 at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 87 years, 2 months and 28 days. Details as recorded: Wood County Volume 5899, Certificate ID: 10786.^2,5

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Born: Horace C. Mercer was born on Tuesday, 18 Aug 1840, at Ohio^G.^1,2
• He was the son of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹

Other Major Events

• Military: on Wednesday, 13 Aug 1862, at Ohio^G, Horace C. Mercer at age 20, began military service, enlisted in Company D, 111th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Went almost immediately to the front.⁶
• Military: between 1863 and 1864, Horace C. Mercer, military service, participated in many important engagements, went through the entire Atlanta campaign.⁶
• Military: on Monday, 17 Jul 1865, at Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina^G, Horace C. Mercer at age 23, completed military service, he was honorably discharged.⁶

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Caleb Mercer was born on Thursday, 7 Apr 1842, at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G.^1,2
• Died on Thursday, 19 May 1927 at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 85 years, 1 month and 12 days. Details as recorded: Wood County Volume 5368, Certificate ID: 32500.^3,2,4

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Caleb Mercer was the son of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Matilda Jane Mercer was born on Thursday, 24 Jul 1845, at Wood County, Ohio^G.^1,3

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Matilda Jane Mercer was the daughter of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: George Mercer Jr. was born on Friday, 5 Oct 1832, at Wood County, Ohio^G.^1,2,3,4

'Non-primary' Vitals

• George Mercer Jr. was the son of: George E. Mercer and Jane Montgomery.¹
• Born: George Mercer Jr. was born circa 1834, at Ohio^G.⁵

Other Major Events

• Military: on Thursday, 13 Jun 1861, George Mercer Jr. at age 28, began military service, Do not know for sure if this is the same person. Private in Company F, 25th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.⁸

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Eliza Groves was born in 1816, at Pickaway County, Ohio^G.^1,2,3
• Died in Jan 1882 at age 66 years.³

Memorable Moments & Stories

• Anecdote: Eliza Groves tombstone shows Elvira buried next to Caleb.⁴

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Henry G. Mercer was born on Friday, 29 Dec 1837, at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G.^3,1,2,4

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Henry G. Mercer was the son of: Caleb Mercer and Eliza Groves.¹

Other Major Events

• Military: between 1861 and 1865, Henry G. Mercer, military service, participated in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Franklin and Nashville, besides many skirmishes. He proved a faithful and valiant soldier, and was never absent from his command for a single day, although at one time he suffered severely from the sting of a scorpion, which came near fatal to him.⁵
• Military: in Aug 1861, Henry G. Mercer at age 23, began military service, enlisted in Company G, 1st Ohio Light Artillery attached to the Army of the Cumberland.⁵
• Military: on Tuesday, 13 Jun 1865, Henry G. Mercer at age 27, completed military service.⁶

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: William H. Mercer was born circa 1841, at Ohio^G.¹

'Non-primary' Vitals

• William H. Mercer was the son of: Caleb Mercer and Eliza Groves.¹

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Matilda Mercer was born circa 1844, at Ohio^G.^1,2

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Matilda Mercer was the daughter of: Caleb Mercer and Eliza Groves.¹

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Charles Mercer was born on Saturday, 27 Dec 1845, at Ohio^G.^1,2
• Died on Sunday, 6 Jul 1851 at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 5 years, 6 months and 9 days.²

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Charles Mercer was the son of: Caleb Mercer and Eliza Groves.¹

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: John Thomas Mercer was born on Tuesday, 7 Aug 1849, at Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio^G.^1,2
• Died on Friday, 16 Dec 1898 at Blunt, Hughes County, South Dakota^G, at age 49 years, 4 months and 9 days.^2,3

Obituary & Burial

• An Obituary for John Thomas Mercer appeared on Wednesday, 28 Dec 1898, in The Blunt Newspaper, Blunt, South Dakota. Obituary
  Died in Blunt, SD, December 16, 1898, John Thomas Mercer, aged 49 years. The people of our community were shocked when the intelligence was passed from one to another that our esteemed fellow citizen, who less than one short week before walked among us the picture of health, lay cold in the embrace of death. Mr. Mercer's difficulty was obstruction of the bowels, of a nature that medical skill was of no avail. Through the painful hours of his illness he retained his senses and talked with composure of his business affairs, and of his approaching end for which he had no fears. His thoughts were for his loved ones soon to be left alone. Funeral services were conducted at the family residence on Sunday at two o'clock, by Rev. J. P. Williamson, assisted by Rev. A. MacFarlane. The members of the Masonic Lodge, of which deceased was the honored sdcretary [sic], attended in a body and officiated at the cemetery with the rites of the Order. Brother members were also present from towns around. The funeral was the largest held in Blunt for years, nearly 300 persons being present, to pay their respects to the departed and show their sympathy for the bereaved family. Mr. Mercer was born in Weston, Wood Co., Ohio, Aug. 7, 1849; was married Feb. 21 1878 to Miss Lucy A. Cass. In January 1883 the came to Dakota and settled in Sully county. Five children have been born to the union who are left with their mother to mourn the loss of a kind and loving husband and father. In his death also there has passed away an upright citizen and business man who will be missed by the community. The bereaved have the deep sympathy of all.
  
  Blunt Newspaper, Date 28 Dec 1898.

'Non-primary' Vitals

• John Thomas Mercer was the son of: Caleb Mercer and Eliza Groves.¹

Memorable Moments & Stories

• Anecdote: circa 1881, John Thomas Mercer and Lucy Albina Cass Presumably Roscoe Conkling's first family photo.
       Others were: Roscoe Conkling Mercer.

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Catharine Piper was born on Monday, 25 Mar 1839, at Ohio^G.^1,2
• Died on Wednesday, 27 Oct 1897 at Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 58 years, 7 months and 2 days.²

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Born: Catharine Piper was born circa 1839, at Pennsylvania^G. Birth details: Father born in Vermont and mother was born in Ohio.³

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Eliza A. Shroyer was born on Saturday, 5 Mar 1836, at Ohio^G. Birth details: Eliza lists her birthplace as Wood County, Ohio, circa 1840. However, there are no SHROYERs listed in the 1840 US Census for Wood County. A review of the Wood County Historical and Biographical Record shows the Shroyers to have migrated to Wood County in 1848. It is more likely that Eliza was born in either Stark County or Crawford County, Ohio.^2,4,3
• Died on Friday, 15 Mar 1889 at Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 53 years and 10 days.^5,3
• Interred on Sunday, 17 Mar 1889 at Wood County, Ohio^G.⁵

Obituary & Burial

• An Obituary for Eliza A. Shroyer appeared on Monday, 18 Mar 1889, Obituary
  On last Monday the people of our village and community were called upon to follow the remains of Mrs Knight and Mrs Lang to their last resting place in the Mercer cemetery; and on Wednesday Fanny McIntire's child; and again on Sunday that of Mrs Eliza Mercer, Bowling Green; the latter being the largest funeral in the community for years.⁵

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Eliza A. Shroyer was the daughter of: Philip Shroyer and Salinda Fidler.³
• Born: Eliza A. Shroyer was born circa 1840, at Ohio^G.⁶

Other Major Events

• Received a pension.³
• Received a pension.⁷
• Received a pension.³
• Reference: SOURCE: Record of Deaths, Probate Court - Wood County, Ohio - Year Ending March 31, 1889.
  
  Date of Record: 28 May 1889
  
  No. 185. MERCER, Eliza; 15 Mch 1889; married; 43y 0mo 10d; died Bowling Green; born Wood County; Housewife; Color white; Cause of Death - Chills; resided Bowling Green.
  
  SOURCE: Probate Death Records - Wood County, Ohio, Vol II, 1888-1901.
  
  Published by Wood County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 722, Bowling Green, Ohio 43402. April 1996
  
  MERCER, Eliza 15 Mar 1889 widow aged 43y 0m 10d Bowling Green, Wood County - page 117 on 28 May 1889 at Wood County, Ohio^G.⁷

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Sarah Shroyer was born in Apr 1846, at Ohio^G.^3,4,5
• Died in 1935 at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 88 years. Details as recorded: not found in Ohio death records.^3,6

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Sarah Shroyer was the daughter of: Philip Shroyer and Salinda Fidler.²

Primary Birth & Death

• Born: Anna M. McMahon was born on Monday, 15 Feb 1841.⁴
• Died on Sunday, 20 Jun 1886 at Wood County, Ohio^G, at age 45 years, 4 months and 5 days.⁴
• Interred after 29 Jun 1886 at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G.⁵

'Non-primary' Vitals

• Born: Anna M. McMahon was born on 13 Feb 1841 or 22 Feb 1841, at Ohio^G. Birth details: Both parents born in Pennsylvania.^3,5,1
• She was the daughter of: John McMahan and Hannah (?)³
• Died between 20 Jun 1886 and 29 Jun 1886 at Liberty Twp., Wood County, Ohio^G.⁵