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/BZB.2ACI/728.2 Message Board Post: HERE IS FURTHER INFO. WHILE THIS IS NOT HIS OBIT PER SE, IT IS INFO FROM IT. I HAD SOMEONE AT THE LIBRARY LOOK IT UP. David H. Merriam was listed in the obituary file on 18 Nov 1968 pg 1 which was an article regarding his heroism and death one year after injury. He died in Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington D.C. with a Purple Heart. He was a member of First Church Congregational in Painesville. Nixon Funeral Home assisted with burial at Riverside Cemetery in Painesville, Ohio. The obituary was in the Telegraph on 19 Nov 1968 pg 2, and there was an editorial on 13 Dec 1968 as well.