1860 Census for Meredith's Tavern Post Office, Marion County, Virginia
On
line 3 is RAWLEY MERRIFIELD, son of John Merrifield, grandson of Richard
Merrifield and great-grandson
of Samuel Merrifield I.
With
Rawley is wife, Matilda, and children Eliza, Thornton, Charles D., Sanford,
Minerva, Newton, Andrew
and Jerome who appear to have been twins.
Rawley was the progency of my 3rd great-grandfather, John Merrifield,
and his first wife, Mary, who died
before 1830. John subsequently married my 3rd great-grandmother, Margaret
Emaline Hickenbotham,
about 1832.
Rawley
would be my 2nd great-grand uncle.
