Grandma Edna Merritt, the oldest person in Mills County, as well as one of the very earliest settlers in this section,
died at 3:30 yesterday afternoon in Glenwood at the home of her son Rufus L. Merritt. She was in her 99th year and had
lived in Mills County for more than 56 years.
She would have been 99 years of age on the 13th of next May. She had been very poorly for several months’ past. The physicians could
not find any special ailment. Her life machinery, in all its parts, had simply worn out.
Grandma Merritt united with the
the Baptist Church when a young girl back in North Carolina. She has 34 living descendants.
~ Source: Contributed by Carrie Merritt
