Documentation for John Gilman Merchant and Lucinda Jane Black


Birth Data

The birthdate of Lizzie Belle Merchant was given as February 1893 in the 1900 census of Stonington, Hancock County, Maine, but her gravestone (in Forest Hill Cemetery in Mount Desert, Maine) reads "1890". Her death announcement (see at bottom of this page) in 1915 that gave her age at death as 20, adds more confusion. Research is clearly needed to resolve this issue.

Census Data

  1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940
John Gilman Merchant ? 47 ? ? ? ?
Lucinda Jane (Black) Merchant ? 46 ? ? ? ?
    John F. Merchant ? 13 ? ? ? ?
    Lizzie Belle Merchant 7 ? ? ? ?
    Eva Merchant 6 ? ? ? ?
    Hattie L. Merchant 3 ? ? ? ?

1900 Stonington, Hancock County, Maine - dwelling 116, family 125:



Death Data

Death announcement for Lizzie Belle (Merchant) Black, from The Bar Harbor Record, Wednesday, 17 March 1915, page 3, column 6: