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MERRILL CUMMINGS PEVEY
BIRTH: 07 Aug 1812 in Greenfield, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire DEATH: 08 Aug 1873 in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts FATHER: Major Peter PEVEY - Birth: 14 Apr 1762 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts MOTHER: Lucy CUMMINGS - Birth: 09 Jul 1767 in Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire MARRIAGE: Elizabeth STONE CHILD: 1. Orianna E. PEVEY - Birth: 12 Jul 1847 in Lowell, Massachusetts  Death: 16 Mar 1927 in Lowell, Essex, Massachusetts |
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Merrill & Elizabeth moved with Orianna to Lowell about 1846 (Lowell Institute for Savings Bank Records show he had an account there in 1846). They knew Apostle Wilford Woodruff there as early as 1848. He sometimes stayed overnight in their home on Branch Street. Occasionally Merrill joined Apostle Woodruff to proselyte in nearby towns in 1850. Merrill worked in the iron foundries of Lowell as a moulder. After moving to Utah, he was a farmer. They had one daughter, Orianna E. Pevey, born in Lowell on July 12, 1847. She never married and died after 1920 in Lowell. Merrill and Elizabeth Stone Pevey and their daughter migrated to Utah in the spring of 1850 as part of the Wilford Woodruff Company, along with Leonard W. Hardy and Samuel B. Hardy and their families. The parents were remarried in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City on March 30, 1852. They apparently abandoned Mormonism (perhaps after the official announcement in August 1852 that church leaders were in fact practicing polygamy, or possibly during the religious zeal of the 1856 Reformation, which drove many "fence-sitters" out of the Utah territory or else face vandalism or worse by Danites) for by the 1860 Census, they had returned to Lowell, where Merrill died on August 8, 1873. Orianna never married. Her occupation was a seamstress. She lived with her parents until their deaths. Orianna was living with Alfred F. and Florence G. Prescott in Lowell in 1910. She was a lodger in 1920 with the John Kydd family which was next door to her cousin, Franklin S. Pevey (son of Abiel). |
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CENSUS: 1870 U.S. Federal - Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts PEVEY, Merrill C. - age 57 - b. abt 1813 in New Hampshire Wife - Elizabeth - age 53 - b. abt 1817 in New Hampshire Dau - Orianna E. - age 23 - b. abt 1847 in Massachusetts Orianna - age 23 - b. abt 1847 in Massachusetts - Occupation: Seamstress Race: White Merill's real estate is worth $1500. His personal property worth $400. (Roll: M593_657 - Pg 418) CENSUS: 1910 U.S. Federal - Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts PEVEY, Orianna E. - age 62 - b. abt 1848 in Massachusetts - Occupation: Seamstress. Race: White She is living with Alfred and Florence Prescott. Her parents were born in New Hampshire (Roll: T624_599 - Pg 25B) CENSUS: 1920 U.S. Federal - Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts PEVEY, Orianna - age 72 - b. abt 1848 in Massachusetts - Occupation: Clerk Race: White She is living with the John Kydd family from Scotland. They are living next door to Orianna's cousin, Franklin S. Pevey (son of Abiel). Orianna can read and write. (Roll: T625_711 - Pg 1A) |
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SOURCES: MEMBERS & MISSIONARIES OF THE LOWELL, MASS. BRANCH OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, 1835-1860 http://people.ucsc.edu/~odonovan/lowell_members.html#abiel CENSUS: 1860 - Merrill & Elizabeth were iving in Lowell, Mass. CENSUS: 1870 U.S. Federal - Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts CENSUS: 1910 U.S. Federal - Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts CENSUS: 1920 U.S. Federal - Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts OBITUARY of Orianna Pevey THE LOWELL DIRECTORY, 1901: Boston MA: Sampson, Murdock and Co, 1901.
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