Adoresta Clark Merriman (1848-1879) was my great-great-grandmother and is buried in the Merriman Cemetery. Her son, Allen Benjamin Martin (1872-1958) was raised primarily by his grandparents, Warren (1823-1903) and Rhoda (Clark) Merriman (1828-1889). When he was an adult he moved to North Dakota and married Ida Louise Curtis (1877-1935). They had five children: Frank Ephraim (1898-1975), George Albert 1899-1907), Charlotte Adoresta, my grandmother (1900-1991), Ida Mae (aka Sr. M. Generosa) (1903-1996) and Joseph Albert (1907-1972), and eventually relocated to Duluth MN.

Information about Ephraim and any other children who appeared (briefly) in census data has been an apparent deadend and according to relatives who knew Allen B, he did not talk about any of them, other than to say that his grandfather taught him to be a carpenter.