Mrs. Caroline M. Merrill, wife of Charles A. Merrill, Esq., died in Bay City, May 11, 1882. Mrs. Merrill was the daughter of the late Dr. J. T. Miller, who was a member of the State Pioneer Society and whose family at an early day was the only one of English descent residing within the present limits of Bay county.

Mrs. Merrill was born at Saginaw, on the 13^th day of October, 1839. At the age of two years her father removed to Flushing, Genesee County, where she received a good common school education, and at the age of fourteen years she commenced teaching in the district schools in the vicinity of her home, and continued her occupation as a teacher in Genesee, Saginaw, and Bay counties until her marriage to Charles A. Merrill, Esq., which occurred at Bay City on the 15^th day of December, 1864.

The subject of this sketch at the age of seventeen years gave her heart to her Savior and joined the M. E. Church at Portsmouth, and ever after adorned her profession by living a consistent Christian life, and was always active in her duties in promoting the cause of Christ in the community in which she lived. Mrs. Merrill was a model wife and mother, and leaves a husband, two daughters, and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn her departure.