Merrill Hobert MIZE

17 May 1829 - 15 May 1874

Father: James MIZE
Mother: Martha INGRAM

Family 1 : Mary F. FULKERSON

  1.  Lovillia MIZE
  2. +John Alexander MIZE
  3.  Martha MIZE
  4.  Mary C. MIZE
  5.  Frederick MIZE
  6.  Merrill MIZE
  7.  Julia MIZE

                                       _Joshua MIZE ___
                  _Benjamin MIZE _____|
                 |                    |_Martha (MIZE) _
 _James MIZE ____|
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|                |_Rachel RICHARDSON _|
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|--Merrill Hobert MIZE 
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|_Martha INGRAM _|
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Notes:

Known to be Thompson Mize's brother. Identified as a son of James Mize, on a list of "Descendants of James Mize and Patsy Ingram" emailed to me (4 Nov 03) by James Harmon (nomrah38655@hotmail.com).

Listed in the 1850 Census for Davis County, Iowa, living in Perry Township, as Merril Mize, age 21, a farmer with $1300 in Real Estate, and living with his wife, Mary, and his father-in-law, Richard Fulkerson.

Merrill's family lived in the same household as the Jacob Harris family according to 1860 Census in Sonoma County. He had $1500 in Real Estate and $3000 in personal property in 1860; $3000 in Real Estate and $500 in personal property listed in the 1870 Census.

There is an infant Merrill Mize (died 7 January 1865 at 5 months) buried in the same plot as Thompson Mize.

His will is #731 (Book B, Page 144). Abstracted in Index and Abstract of Wills, Sonoma County, California 1850-1900 (The Sonoma County Genealogical Society, May 1985), page 134:
 

Dated: 4 May 1874
Died: 15 May 1874
Filed: 12 Feb. 1875
Wife: Mary Mize
Sons: John A. Mize (minor), Frederick Mize (minor)
Daughter: Julia Mize (minor)
Executor: Mary Mize
Witnesses: John Fulkerson, George W. Moore.

 

From Sonoma County Brand Index :
From Sonoma County Brand Index

#29, Merrill Mize; January 2, 1856
N. McC. Menefee, recorder; Joel Miller, deputy.

 

 

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