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Note: na, returning to Ohio in 1837 and marrying Ann Lowry Mercer on Aug. 10, 1837. He had a new carriage made to his order in Dayton, Ohio, andin this he took her to Indiana and settled on Potato Creek in St. Joseph County, in a new frame house which he built himself on some heavily timbered land which he owned and on which he put up a saw mill. Several years later, he bought a farm on Sumption Prairie and lived on it for many years. After his children were grown up, he build a house in South Bend, where he resided until his death in 1886. Ann Mercer died in 1874. In 1881, he came to North Dakota, purchased land and built a house on some of it, one-half mile south of Sheldon. while he never changed his permanent residence, he spent some of his summers in North Dakota and died there, of pneumonia. (Source: Aunt Flora (Greene) Donahue, Blackfoot, Idaho), in letter to Raymond Greene II, dated July 28, 1956.
The following are the names of their children: Elizabeth Jackson 1839-189? Edward Mercer 1841-189? Samantha (Matt) Maria 1843-1921 Nancy Ann (1845-1905) Albert Cass 1847-1864 Jas. Lincoln 1848-1921 John Hammond 1850-1924 Marshall Bey 1852-1921 Sarah Ella 1854-19??
Note: Moved with parents to Ohio in 1811. In 1832, moved to St. Joseph County, India
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