By Request. Source: 1881 Grundy Co., Missouri History Book Benjamin F. Merryman, p. 651 BENJAMIN F. MEBRYMAN Was born April 19, 1833, in Rock Castle County, Kentucky. His father, John H. Merryman, was a native of Virginia, and his mother, Jemima Merryman, of Kentucky. In a little family cemetery on the old homestead where they first settled in this county, lie in sweet repose the ashes of his parents. His father died April 26, 1873, aged seventy-six years, and his mother departed this life April 29, 1873, aged sixty-nine years. As their lives had been together in one happy union, so their deaths were but three days apart. The subject of our sketch was but eleven years old when his parents moved to this county. He was united in matrimony, April 10, 1856, to Miss Charlotte Kilburn. She was born September 26, 1834, in Pulaski County, Kentucky. They have eight children: Thomas 0., born March 23, 1852; Reuben S., born February 3, 1859; Jemima J., born May 8, 1861; Sarah S., born February 10,1863; Mary E., born October 28,1865; John F., born February 23, 1868; William H., born July 29, 1870; and Benjamin G., born November 10, 1872. Mr. M. now owns a beautiful farm of three hundred and forty acres.