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Name
Merritt Irving Sheldon   #12280
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Born
17 Dec 1888
Place
Buffalo, Erie, New York
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Died
5 Jan 1966
Place
Erie County, New York
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     approx. age 78


Buried
White Chapel Memorial Park, Erie County, New York

Father
Mother

Spouse
Date
16 Aug 1913
Place
Gowanda, Cattaragus, New York
Source
  1  Franklin M. Sheldon 28 Sep 1914
  2  James Richard Sheldon 17 Nov 1918
  3  Charles Sheldon abt 1920

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Found him on the 1900 Pike, Wyoming, New York census (dist 131 img 22) as Irving Sheldon age 12.

Marriage Record

Found him on the 1920 Buffalo Ward 20, Erie, New York census (dist 174 img 50) as Merritt I. Sheldon age 32. Assistant foreman, auto factory. His mother-in-law, Jane E. Stock age 74, widow, and Clark R. Sheldon, brother are in his household.

WWII Draft Registration


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| Frank M. Sheldon 1863           |
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|- Merritt Irving Sheldon   
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|                                                                   | Samuel Wilgus  1777 
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|                                 | Clark G. Wilgus  1818           |   
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|                                 |                                 | Hebsibeth White 1783 
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| Harriet Lillian Wilgus 1862     |
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                                  | Eliza Olney 1825                |
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