This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MERCK SAMPLES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4c.2ADE/1693 Message Board Post: My greatGMa was Jessie Ann MERCK-Samples (1885-1910). Her only "living" child, my GDaddy (Ezra Benjamin Samples), was <2 years when she died -- He her dad was Anthony MERCK and 2 of her sibblings were Jenny MERCK and Ben MERCK. She & my grandparents are burried in the AltaVista Cemetery. Does anyone know who her mother was (Anthony's wife) and which MERCK Anthony is descended from????