This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UEB.2ACE/507 Message Board Post: Retracing my steps: Merry - Wood connection - http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogy/merry.html Asa Merry born 2 January 1828 in Industry, Franklin, Maine son of Jonathan Merry (Asa 5, David 4, Samuel 3, Samuel 2, Joseph 1) and Eliza Luce (Rowland 6, Daniel 5, Rowland 4, Jonathan 3, Robert 2, Henry 1). Mary Viletta Wood born 1828 daughter of Silas Wood (Nathan 6, John 5, John 4, John 3, Michael 2, William 1) and Mary F Boynton (William 5, William 4, Caleb 3, Caleb 2, William 1). Married 13 April 1853. Children: 1. William Merry 2. Nellie Merry 3. Herbert Leslie Merry born 28 February 1871 in Starks, Somerset, Maine, died 29 May 1935 in Thorndike, Waldo, Maine, buried in Thorndike. Married Selena Irene Raven as her second marriage, daughter of William Neal Raven and Hannah Hanson or Hansen. Two sons and two daughters. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MERRY/2005-11/1131468347 Sources available on request. If you have anything to add, subtract, confirm or refute or if you have any connection with this family I'd like to hear from you. If you'd like to add this information to your database or share it with others feel free to do so and please cite the source. If you would like to publish this information in your web site, your own book, CD or other publication I would appreciate a note from you saying so. Please do not submit this data to any person, organization or firm that is in the business of collecting data to put on commercial CD's or commercial web sites for the purpose of selling it to their patrons. Best wishes, David David Sylvester 28 North Searsport Road Searsport, Maine 04974 Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.