This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Merriman, Painter Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gh.2ADI/5512 Message Board Post: The Warren News, Friday, April, 25, 1890 Obituary. George W., son of Micaiah and Martha Merriman, was born in Wells county, Ind., January 25, 1864. Died at Majenica, Huntington county, Ind., April 20, 1890, aged 26 yrs., 2 months and 25 days. Funeral services were held at White chapel, near Brown's Corners, on Tuesday, conducted by Rev. M.H. Mott. There was a large attendance of mourning relatives and friends, among them Miss Emma Painter, a teacher in the Orphans' Home at Bellfontaine, Ohio, to whom the deceased was engaged to be married. Mr. Merriman was a highly respected young man and leaves many friends who are made sad on account of his untimely death. (another article in the same newspaper) Majenica George Merriman, a prominent and respected young man, twenty-five years old, died Sunday evening at the residence of his brother, near Majenica, where he made his home since the death of his mother, when he was not away at school. He leaves six brothers to mourn their loss. His funeral occurred Tuesday at 1 p.m., one mile north of Brown's Corners. A large circle of relatives and friends paid their last token of respect to the deceased. Rev. M.H. Mott, of Warren, preached a very excellent and instructive funeral discourse. John and Thomas Black, of Warren, and Robert Black, of Huntington, and other friends and relatives from a distance were present. On Sunday evening the brothers of Mr. M. sent a telegram to Ohio to a very dear friend, Miss Emma Painter, who, accompanied by her mother, arrived at Majenica on Monday evening, and was received as dear and respected friends of the deceased.