Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 695-696 [Graves]

     BEAUREGARD R. MERRITT, M. D., a prominent citizen and physician
of Fancy Farm, Graves county, Kentucky, was born in this county
April 24, 1870, and is a son of Daniel R. and Sophia C. Briggs
Merritt.  His father was born in Todd county, Kentucky, while his
mother was born in Graves county, Kentucky.  The paternal
grandfather was Daniel Merritt, and the maternal grandfather was
James Briggs.  Dr. Merritt knows very little of his ancestral
history.  His father has made his home in Graves county for the past
forty years, and is now president of the Bank of Exchange at
Mayfield and is a strong Democrat in politics.  For many years he
was a consistent member of the Christian church and holds
steadfastly to that faith now.  During the Civil war he enlisted in
the Confederate army, about 1862, as a private, and was soon
promoted to the position of sergeant, which he held until the close
of the war.  His wife is also living, and is fifty-three years of
age.  Eight children were born to them, namely: Beauregard R.;
James, deceased; Nannie, deceased; Ellen M.; Arlando M.; William E.,
who is also a physician and in partnership with our subject; Butler,
deceased; Ivan.
     Dr. Merritt was reared and educated in Graves county, and then
went to West Kentucky College; later to the Northern Indiana Normal
School, from which he was graduated.  He then attended the College
of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis.  His next instruction was
received in the Marion Sims College of Medicine at St. Louis, from
which he was also graduated.  He still later attended the Kentucky
School of Medicine at Louisville, Kentucky.  Returning home he soon
became one of the leading physicians of Graves county, and is now
enjoying a large practice.  He is a Democrat in politics.
     On October 16, 1893, he was married to Miss Mary J. Willett,
now deceased.  In 1896 he married Edna E. Spalding, who was born
October 26, 1879.  One child has been born to them, Mary C., on
March 13, 1902.  Dr. and Mrs. Merritt are very highly esteemed
through the county, and are important factors in the social life of
the city.

Merritt Briggs Willett Spalding
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Todd-KY

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