This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Merville, Wilson, Mitchell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/5843 Message Board Post: Milford J. Merville 1938 Milford J. MERVILLE, 68, long prominent in business and public life of this community, passed away at the Fillmore Hospital Friday evening following an illness extending over several weeks. He was removed to the hospital from his home Wednesday of last week. Mr. MERVILLE had been engaged in the insurance business in Fillmore for over 27 years and during that time had won for himself a countless number of friends. His acquaintance extended over a large territory through this connection and also from the positions of public trust which he had held at various times. He served as justice of the peace of the town of Hume from 1922 to 1938; as assessor of the same town from 1916 to 1931; as police justice of the Village of Fillmore from 1935 to 1938 and also as president of the Fillmore Chamber of Commerce for two years. To all of these offices he brought honor and respect from everyone with whom he had dealings. M.J. MERVILLE was born in Eagle, received his education at Pike Seminary, and started his active career as a traveling salesman for various firms, living for a time in Syracuse and Rochester. He was united in marriage to Floy WILSON in 1896 and soon afterward moved to Fillmore where he has since resided. His wife died in 1917. On July 15, 1919, he was united in marriage to Flora B. MITCHELL who survives, together with a brother-in-law(?) Ernest MERVILLE, of Cleveland and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at his late home Monday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. Harold WASS pastor of the M.E. Church, officiating, and burial was made in the Caneadea Cemetery. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribd by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]